There's Always Someone Worse Off

[Teapots1]

If you feel a bit hacked off with the problems we have in the UK, spare a thought for the people in Kentucky. Wondering around looking for their personal items, medication that they need on a daily basis, cash they have lost, family car wrecked, houses flattened, hospitals totally out of action, food shops wrecked and jobs destroyed, the devastation is without doubt a lot worse than we in the UK ever suffer. I'm not making light of our problems, but at the moment you just have to wonder what we are complaining about just now. Just a thought?

[Bobbisox1]

Yes teapots, very well put and a sobering thought too , it must be terrible for those poor people there

[Ken4155]

Teapots, 'twas always thus. If i have a boil on my bum, i will be more concerned with that than anything happening on the other side of the world. Doesn't mean i don't sympathise with them, of course.

[Gill1941]

I agree, teapots. You can always find someone worse off than yourself.

People always seem to find quite minor things to moan about.

[Lie-in King]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59637898

Dreadful tragedy, with more than 100 people still unaccounted-for, I can't imagine what the survivors are going through & my thoughts are with them.

[bhg481]

They were talking to the Govenor of Kentucky on BBC yesterday. He said he's licenced to fly drones and he was flying one over the destruction. There was a boy, "about the same age as my daughter", standing alone in the place where his house used to be. He'd nothing but the clothes he stood in and it's COLD there at this time of the year, cold we don't really understand in the UK compared with the temperatures reached mid-continent.

[johnk]

Will it help to persuade Americans that climate change is here and to do something about it.

[emmie]

I just read that there have been 800 thousand deaths attributed to covid since this began, how is that remotely possible.

[emmie]

i missed off the "In the USA"

[Toorak]

What does that have to do with the topic?

[emmie]

that they have and are worse off than anyone else

[emmie]

our problems are big but not like the USA, i feel so sorry when people are caught up in this.

[barry1010]

There has been 147000 covid related deaths in the UK.
The USA's population is five times larger making the USA death rate not very much higher than ours.
Gibralta has had a far higher death rate per capita.

[emmie]

seems a hell of a lot to me.

[barry1010]

The USA is no 20 in the league per capita at 2,460 deaths per million people.
Peru tops the league at 67,091.
Strangely, China comes in at no 207 with 3 deaths per million.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[naomi24]

Barry, //There has been 147000 covid related deaths in the UK.
The USA's population is five times larger making the USA death rate not very much higher than ours.//

Doesn’t it depend upon how it's counted? Does the USA count all deaths that occur within 28 days of a positive test as a Covid death as we do or do they, quite rightly, say that someone who has been hit by a bus after testing positive died of injuries sustained in the accident?

[emmie]

i would like to know that too..Naomi

[barry1010]

No idea, Naomi. Would love to know the Chinese criteria for a death with Covid

[naomi24]

That's the problem with quoting figures and making comparisons. Everyone seems to count differently. I think our statistics are way over-stated.

[barry1010]

Different states may have their own criteria, too, and we can't really trust anything from the Trump government but all I was pointing out was that the official US figure is not that much higher than the official UK figure by capita.

[naomi24]

I'm not sure what the Trump government has to do with it. Biden's in now and the published figures are low. Bet they're not counting all deaths within 28 days of a positive test as a Covid death.