The US and Canada have both seen rises in cases after their Thanksgiving holidays. It would be prudent to think we will see a similar effect from Christmas celebrations. (View Post)

That is a great find. Trump is such an ignorant, jealous, dishonest, and repugnant creep. If Trump was a work of fiction, rather than the current President as he unfortunately is, we'd find his … (View Post)

Russia is a good example of the problem. Their excess deaths are running at nearly three times the deaths attributed to COVID-19, which implies that either Russia is undercounting COVID-19 deaths or … (View Post)

I know, but the point I'm making is that the raw population density is still misleading. Those differences are meaningful, but they are still dwarfed by the error you get from looking at populat… (View Post)

Population density is an incredibly misleading stat. You are much better looking at the percentage of the population living in an urban area, which quite often comes out around 80% in advanced econom… (View Post)