I have wondered why they make such a huge thing of other countries numbers? Its not like we or our country can do anything to effect it besides travel bans. I know we feel horrible that those people are infected but we are helpless and all the info really does is scare the bejesus out of our citizens. Why do they shove that in our faces? Personally this whole thing has a 'something of a feeling that it is being manipulated' to steer people to be more than willing to do anything they are told to. What really bothers me is that our citizens could become used to the gov taking 'care' of them and not be so willing for them to stop. Can not get us to vote for socialism so lets make em.The numbers are what they are. If the US gets its act together and actually does a lot of tests, great, then US numbers will change, hopefully go down in terms of mortality rate, but for now all we have are the handful of public numbers for multiple countries.
Sry for going so far off topic. I will stop now.
/rantoff