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6 Million Stricken with COVID-19: Trump has turned the US into a Sh*thole Country

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What explains it is that Trump is bad at his job.

What do we make of the failures of the US in comparison with less developed nations?

Argentina has had 8,457 deaths, the equivalent of 62,000 or so US deaths. The United States under Trump has had three times as many deaths as Argentina under Alberto Ferna'ndez. Argentina has had 408,000 cases. That is the equivalent of about 3 million cases, or half as many as the US has had. Argentina's statistics may be under-counting a little. But by a factor of three with regard to deaths?

Turkey has reported 6,326 deaths, the equivalent of about 25,000 US deaths. Turkey has a sophisticated government bureaucracy and health system, and while it may not be counting all the deaths, is it really off by a factor of 7?

That the US is doing so much worse than South Korea, Germany and Canada is galling enough. But there is a real possibility that it is doing worse than Argentina and Turkey.

Remember, too, that US testing capacity has been hobbled by Trump's inaction or incompetence or malignant intentions, so a lot of old people are dying in bed uncounted in this country, too.

Trump's casual racism in dismissing countries beyond the US and Europe as sh*thole countries looks more and more like unwarranted hubris. Trump has managed to turn the US into the sh*thole country.

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Juan Cole is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia.  He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (more...)
 

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