America trails most of the rest of the developed world.

The rich and the intellectuals want power over the common man. They hate giving the common man a Bill of Rights when they are so much smarter or so they think. Intellectuals always want dictatorships.

 

Do you have any information on estimates of unreported cases? The Wall Street Journal says that the estimated death rate is deeply flawed but the article is behind a paywall.

 

I've been back in the USA since May of 2018. But I returned twice to China to retrieve my books, see my friends and get dental work.

That's a given.

 

I have a huge doubt that Cuba has much of a medical system. Communism stifles personal initiative. End of story.

Cuban doctors not being in it for the money means that they have no self interest in quality work. And they are sent all over the world by the communist dictator for his purposes, not theirs. I was in Japanese language school years ago with a Chinese artist forced to study in Japan by his government. He was not happy about it. Another Chinese there had fled the Chinese Cultural Revolution with his father to start a Chinese restaurant in Tokyo. The Cultural Revolution destroyed all progress in China for decades. That's what dictators do-stop progress.

 

Bummer being the only "foreign devil" there. The unwanted attention is fierce.

 

Well, of course, you are one hundred percent correct, John of Japan. The Cuban healthcare system is one of the worst in the world although they do run an international clinic for other communists. As for their doctors, your example of people forced to study in Japan is totally correct for what is happening to Cuban "doctors," some of whom probably have little more than very basic first aid training. They are in effect slaves of the Castro family. They have to leave their entire family behind in Cuba so if they defect they can never see their loved ones again. They get almost no money at all as the Castros keep what the other countries pay for the medial teams. The truth of the matter is that a guy with a very old car who runs a taxi service in Havana probably makes more money than anyone else in Cuba except for communist party officials.

The lies of the American Communists are never-ending. All of Latin America is probably below Japan in per capita income. They have gone left and tried to use the government to guarantee jobs and healthcare and it has backfired badly. Venezuela started out in the 1960s or so taking property and businesses away from foreigners and now they are taking property and businesses away from their own citizens. They have more oil than Saudi Arabia but they live in squalor thanks to socialism/communism. And so it goes throughout Latin America. Cuba has the pandemic and it is thought that a high-ranking old time communist with Castro in 1959 General Ramiro Valdes has died of the flu but that may be a rumor.

 

Of course, the type of healthcare system matters. Our private companies have stepped up to manufacture products in short supply on the double.

And as Crowder has pointed out, we have people of all nationalities and ages all over the this country. Also, as he said, we have about a hundred different sexes in this country, more than anywhere else in the world.

 

Just keep in mind data lags.

Testing doesn’t happen until patients are symptomatic and then there is the time to process. So usually confirmed cases are around 1 week after the actual infection time.

And then for all active cases we don’t know if they will die or live until the disease runs its course. Average infection to death time is around 3 weeks. So the deaths you are seeing now are from the infections that were detected around 2 weeks ago and transmitted a week before that.

 

There must be many cases not in the official count so the percentages are totally useless. The numbers from the communist world are unreliable. For example, it is reported from Cuba that thug murderer Gen. Ramiro Valdes died of the virus but Raul Castro is withholding all information.

 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research

This page has a pretty good comparison of CFR (case fatality rate) by country and also presents a good discussion about the limitations of this kind of analysis.