Spending the morning being an analyst again... With the US on the brink of re-opening I couldn't help but wonder how the US is doing in comparison to other countries. Questions like what are we doing better/worse at testing, quarantining, managing, etc. all swirling in my head.
Here are some basic findings.
- The US had about a month longer to prepare than Europe. Yet, today the US is worse than Italy in cases per capita.
- Of all the countries in the world, only Ireland, Spain & Iceland are performing worse than the US in containing COVID19.
- France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Turkey, and Iran are all outperforming our containment with their protocols.
- Most fascinating is that JAPAN & INDIA (extreme density populations) are the blazing BADASSES and are absolutely showing us how to contain and control.
Question:
- Why are we at over 1M cases instead of half or even a quarter of this number?
- Without a solid healthcare system capable of foreseeing pandemics elsewhere in the world and responding better than those that had less time than the US, how can we expect to have a solid, long-standing US economy?
- Do you really think that our enemies aren't learning about our systemic healthcare response weaknesses right now?
- Are you looking the other way because these questions are too hard to discuss? Those I know in the investment industry say "If you don't plan for the future, you're planning for failure".
Please keep in mind... the US supposedly has turbo-powered, super-power-of-the-world resources - intelligence, military, center of the world tech, food supplier of the world, most medically advanced, most influential in the global economy, etc.
My message: With all this down-time, waiting for our leaders to figure out what others in the world already have, what are you thinking about? What are you going to demand of our leaders next?
Reference for COVID19 cases: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html
TAGS: #COVID19, #TRUMP, #USAFAILS
