COVID-19: Donald Trump versus Vladimir Putin

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Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop
World	1,985,083	+61,235	125,344	+5,726	466,635	1,393,104	50,943	255	16.1
USA	605,354	+18,413	25,394	+1,754	38,166	541,794	12,828	1,829	77	3,037,362	9,176
Spain	172,541	+2,442	18,056	+300	67,504	86,981	7,371	3,690	386	600,000	12,833
Italy	162,488	+2,972	21,067	+602	37,130	104,291	3,186	2,687	348	1,073,689	17,758
France	143,303	+6,524	15,729	+762	28,805	98,769	6,730	2,195	241	333,807	5,114
Germany	131,359	+1,287	3,294	+100	68,200	59,865	4,288	1,568	39	1,317,887	15,730
UK	93,873	+5,252	12,107	+778	N/A	81,422	1,559	1,383	178	382,650	5,637
China	82,249	+89	3,341		77,738	1,170	116	57	2

New deaths:

DAY     China   Italy   USA   Spain   Germany   S. Korea  WORLD

Mar 23          9  601       85      435            24               7        1631

        24         7  743     100      489            33               9        1983

        25         4  683     129      454            47               6        1987

        26         6  712       73      498            33               5        1801

        27         5  919     182      569            71               8        2782

        28         3  889     241      674            52               5        2609
        29         5  756     169      624            49               8        2706
        30         4  812     271      537            19               6        2849
        31         5  837     439      553            37               4        3661
Apr    1         7  727     589      463            83               3        3239
          2         6  760     522      709          158               4        4183

          3         4  766     716      587          123               5        3822

          4         4  681     769      546            55               3        4755
          5         3  525     909      471          106               6        3595
          6         2  636     874      528            78               3        4414
          7         ?  604   1371      556            95               6        6291
          8         2  542   1400      628          176               8        5431
          9         2  610   1286      446            82               4        3779
        10         1  570   1739      523          121               4        6506

        11         3  619   1476      399             ?                3        5358
        12         ?  431   1090      366            74               3        4533
        13         2  566   1147      280            21               3        4489
        14         ?  602   1754      300          100               5        5726

Summary:

• Another bad day for Humanity, as new deaths in the world jumped to 5726, and the USA had its highest one day increase ever, with 1754 new deaths.
• Even Italy, Spain and Germany experienced increases.

Snopes a month ago looked into Donald Trump's statements about COVID-19:

According to Snopes:

Generally speaking, the quotes in this list and the provided dates are all accurate.

From The New York Times today:

■ President Vladimir Putin offered a bleak assessment of Russia’s preparedness, warning senior officials: “We have a lot of problems, and we don’t have much to brag about.”

Comparing the USA and Russia:

                                                 USA             Russia

Total cases                             605,354          21,102

Total deaths                             25,394            170

Population                           328,000,000  145,000,000

Deaths/million population           77                  6

True, there is a lot of skepticism about any news from Russia.  But no matter how they're downplaying the statistics, if they are, you got to be seriously concerned about the psychotic peril posed by Trump's narcissism and lust for re-election.

Switching to reality and my life in solitary confinement, many of you by now must be in need of a haircut or beauty salon appointment.  I just hate to have hair touch my ears.  So what do I do?  Simple, I cut my own hair so there was no contact.  I have never before done this.  IT WORKS!  It was so easy.  Took all of a couple of minutes.  Also looks okay.   I'd show a photo for proof, but you don't want to see my ear.   All you need is any semblance of scissors.  Try it.  If I do this just once/week, that will be satisfactory.  I'm good in isolation for another month, and maybe more.

Some of you require something more elaborate.  Here is a New York Times article from one of their journalists, Erin Griffith of San Francisco.  But this option cost her $55.  Read about her solution if you're desperate.  Or was that for $75?

I get sent all kinds of jokes and cartoons about Donald Trump's performance regarding COVID-19.  Here are a few more:

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