How Does The USA Lead The World IN COVID Deaths?

https://nypost.com/2022/02/05/covid-19-death-toll-in-us-surpasses-900000-now-leads-the-world/

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States reached a grim milestone surpassing 900,000 deaths from the virus on Friday following a surge of the highly-infectious omicron variant, less than two months after reaching 800,000.

According to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, 901,388 Americans have succumbed to the coronavirus over the last two years, more than the populations of major American cities such as San Francisco, Indianapolis and Charlotte.

The bleak toll comes 13 months into the United States’ vaccination campaign. To date, 212,481,465 Americans, or 64.3% of the country, are fully vaccinated.

On Feb. 4, a total of 4,151 Americans died from the virus, with a seven-day average of 3,391 daily deaths, the highest numbers since January 2021, according to the university’s data.

Despite all its wealth and technology, the US has by and large the highest death toll reported of any country in the world. Brazil is next in line with roughly 630,000 reported COVID-19 deaths, followed by India with roughly 500,000 deaths reported.

The country with the most wealth, money, technology and compassionate leaders leads the world in COVID deaths. How is this even possible?

COVID has infected people on every continent on the planet. Every country has had a different response to the pandemic. Some, like Sweden, haven't done a lot. Others, like Australia, have pretty much shut down society. America has done a little of both. 

America isn't the most extreme on any spectrum of COVID response (perhaps excluding data collection and mainstream news stories). Besides that, there's just not a lot of separation between America and the rest of the world (particularly the Western world).

There are several possible hypothesis that could be presented:

1. COVID affects Americans differently.

2. COVID deaths are recorded differently.

3. COVID medical protocols are performed differently.

4. The data is wrong.

5. Americans are unhealthier.

6. The American system is completely incompetent.

7. The American system is superior at recording COVID deaths

8. All of the above.

9. None of the above.

 The only one that I would exclude from that list of possibilities is No 9. 

If I could only pick one from the list, I would probably choose No 8. But both of those are the easy choices. 

If I had to choose only one between 1 and 7, I'd probably opt for No 2 as the rational choice. It could be easy to lump 2, 4 and 7 together in one option (e.g., deaths are recorded differently, so the data is misleading/wrong, because the American health system is hyper-focused on confirming every possible COVID death as a COVID death). 

There can also be an argument made that COVID deaths are in some way financially incentivized, which could lead to anyone who died with COVID being labeled as a COVID death for financial gain, or some psychological aspect like confirmation bias or narrative control.

It's also very important not to rule out No 5. Americans as a society are extremely unhealthy by all standards. Which makes the whole "the government wants to keep us safe and healthy" narrative absolutely ridiculous on merit. If the government wanted to keep Americans safe and healthy, they would tackle obesity, plastic toxicity, GMOs in food, ultra processed foods, suicide, drug overdoses, Big Pharma, porn accessibility, black crime, illegal immigration etc, etc, etc. Until they address those things the same way they've addressed COVID, I refuse to take their "we care about you" jargon with any degree of seriousness.

Regardless, IMO, the relevant aspect isn't the "how" or "why," it's recognizing the failure of the COVID response by the American system. Which, is basically No 6. 

Honestly, I could probably literally make a valid argument for each of the given options. But, the more I think about it, there more I think No 6 is my final answer. 

Here's why:

I've said before, and I'll say it again, I can't help but wonder what this pandemic would've been like if there had not been any significant government response. If people had just gone on with their daily lives as usual I don't think most people would have known any different. My theory is that the number of people who died of COVID would be probably half of the official number (both literally and empirically).  

Of course, I have no way of proving that. But there was a recent study by John Hopkins just released that stated the lockdowns were useless:

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have concluded that lockdowns have done little to reduce COVID deaths but have had “devastating effects” on economies and numerous social ills.

The study, titled “A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality,” said lockdowns in Europe and the U.S. reduced COVID-19 deaths by 0.2 percent.

Shelter-in-place orders were also ineffective, reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9%, the study said.

“We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality,” the researchers wrote in the report, issued Monday.

I think we will eventually start to see data that shows masks caused way more harm than good. Simply observing people's behaviors while they are wearing a mask (particularly younger people) makes it obvious that they are introducing more germs to themselves than repelling them.

I also think studies will come out that will shine a negative light on the vaccines. Not only from an ADE perspective, but that they've harmed the immune system and will eventually be linked to adverse side-effects. If you analyze the government's pandemic response, and acknowledge their degree of failure, it's hard to have any faith in the vaccine considering how they pushed it in the same way they pushed lockdowns.