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Previously I made a comparison between US and Australian figures for coronavirus. This is the second such comparison. The US is not improving.

This is perhaps a response to those who think that Australia should be more like the US economically and politically (ie Coalition politicians).

First case of coronavirus in the US announced 20th Jan.
First case in Australia 25th Jan. This is pretty comparable.

The US population is about 334,000,000 and the Australian population is about 26,000,000. So the population of the US is about 13 times greater than that of Australia.

Current confirmed cases in US: 1,008,571
Current confirmed cases in Aus: 6,725

The US has 150 times as many confirmed cases as Australia.

Current deaths in the US: 56,521
Current deaths in Australia: 84

The US has 673 times as many deaths as Australia.

Again, not all neoliberalisms or market fundamentalisms are equally destructive….

Tags: neoliberalism, pandemic

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