Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "UK’s Right Wing Government Is WAY More Progressive Than Biden On Covid" video.

  1.  @davidhughes4089  A big part of covid numbers has to do with the initial outbreak. Unfortunately, Boris didn't take things seriously enough, right out of the gate. There's a strong correlation between trace testing rates (tests per confirmed case) and covid spread. The UK's testing rate was even lower than the US' pathetic rate, early on. Both countries were testing 5 or less people per confirmed case, for months. Italy, Spain, and France, weren't much better, testing under 10 people per confirmed case. All of them had a pretty bad 2020. Once the cats were out of the bag, it was hard to try and gain control, and get ahead of the virus. Canada and Germany got up to 15+ fairly quickly. Denmark, Norway, and Finland, got up to 20+. They all had medium results. Canada's covid deaths per million rate, for example, would translate into 54k total UK covid deaths, instead of 150k, and would translate into about 250k total US covid deaths, instead of 850k. Countries like S Korea, Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand, got their testing rates up to over 50 people per confirmed case, early on. They all had excellent results. Australia's deaths per million rate would translate into about 6k total UK covid deaths, and about 36k total US covid deaths. You just can't get ahead of the virus spread, testing only 5 people per confirmed case. If the infected person has been in the vicinity of 50 people, before testing positive, and you only test 5 of those people, then you only have a 10% chance of finding who they infected. If you aren't actively looking for asymptomatic carriers, then they'll just keep spreading it wildly. The UK is now up to almost 29, ahead of Canada at 22. Germany has dropped to 13. Australia is up to 71. New Zealand and others are testing in the hundreds per confirmed case. The US is up to 13, but things are so politically divided, you know that's going to be a lot higher with some people and a lot lower with others, who are just letting it spread now, and who are even legislating to oppose attempts to contain the virus anymore.
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  2. All well and good in a void, but the US has an even further right party of outright fascists, that tried to overthrow the democratic process to install themselves an unelected dictator. Vote for progressives in the primaries. If they don't make it, vote to keep the fascists out in the general. Splitting the progressive voters from more conservative Dem voters, in the general, would just let Republicans rule for decades to come, and wouldn't give progressives any more power. In fact, it would give them less power. As is, progressives only need to become the majority of the party, to pick the party speaker candidate, and take the party in the direction they want. As a third party, they'd have to win the majority of congress, to have any power.
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