America, With 4.21% of Worlds Population, Has 16% of Covid-19 Deaths. Why? by Eric Zuesse
(2021-10-05 at 00:57:31 )

America, With 4.21% of Worlds Population, Has 16% of Covid-19 Deaths. Why? by Eric Zuesse

The United States of America operates a global empire, but its billionaires are never satisfied, and are determined for it to encompass every nation. The billionaires control their Government; the American public do not.

The United States has 3.85 times as high a percentage of its population killed from the covid-19 virus as does the entire world.

Whereas the United States of America has had 2,158 covid-19 deaths per million population, the world has had 617 covid-19 deaths per million population.

Thus far, there have been 719,615 such United States deaths, and 4,481,499 global deaths. America, with 4.21% of the worlds population, accounts for 16% of all covid-19 deaths. Of course, if it were an average country, it would account for 4.21%. That is how bad Americas performance has actually been.

On 15 September 2020, Pew headlined their global poll "United States Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly".

On 22 April 2020, I had headlined "Why Post-Coronavirus America Will Have Massive Poverty", and explained that the United States Government, in the policies that it was putting into place, was concerned about both the public and its billionaires, but was far more concerned to bail out the billionaires than to protect the public; and, so, the billionaires would boom, their stock markets would benefit enormously by the going-out-of-business of the owners of smaller firms, even while millions of Americans would lose their jobs and increasingly the homeless population would grow.

I explained why the extremely poor public-health system in the United States would increasingly become overburdened and that people would increasingly die, for reasons such as - because of the relative lack of United States protections of the public - workers would be increasingly desperate to stay at work even when they know that they might get the covid disease themselves and-or spread it to their co-workers and to people they serve at restaurants, etc.: they would stay employed where they are for as long as possible. This would produce in the United States of America exceptionally high ratios of the U.S. population becoming infected with the virus and transmitting it to others.

So, it has all happened, though more slowly than I had expected it to happen.

In 2000, the United States of Americas ratio of government debt to GDP was 70%. In 2016, it was 120%. In 2000, Americas ratio of federal government debt to GDP was 55%, and that became 105% in 2016.

After 2016, there was not much change in those ratios, but no figures have yet been released after 2019 - in other words, during the covid crisis.

However, the federal Government has released to the public that, "In FY 2020 the federal deficit was $3,129 billion. But the gross federal debt increased by $4,230 billion"; and, "This year, FY 2021, the federal government in its latest budget has estimated that the deficit will be $3,669 billion."

A chart there also shows that the federal deficit in 2019 was $1,000 billion ($1T), but that in 2020, that exploded upward to a little over $3,000 billion ($3T).

All of this explosion added to the federal debt.

Most of the additional money to the nations debt became added to the wealth of billionaires and centi-millionaires; the rest of it went to everybody else. One of the extreme realities about the American Government is that it protects the richest - billionaires and centi-millionaires - against risks, more than it protects the public (overwhelmingly their workers) against risks; and, in this way, the richest in this country (the investors) are shielded against risks far more than the citizenry-at-large are. Workers here get the worst: the highest risks, and no controlling ownership of any major corporation. The richest get controlling ownerships in major corporations, plus the lowest risks of anyone.

(Incidentally: federal debt in 2019 - the latest year reported by the United States Government was $22,669 billion or $22.67T. So, in 2020, it became $4,230 billion higher, or $26.87T, an annual increase-rate of 18.5%. The federal Government has already calculated these facts, but still has not yet released them to the public.)

These facts are typical with oligarchies - countries that are controlled by their billionaires, or "aristocrats." Most countries are like this, but the fact that the United States of America, with 4.21% of the worlds population, has 16% of the worlds covid-19 deaths, shows that the United States of America is more like this than most countries are.

A few countries are even worse than America.

In such countries, lots of people are more desperate, in the covid era, than they were before, but, also, many of the few people who are not, nonetheless do not much mind high risk, because in a culture that rewards owning businesses more than it rewards working for businesses, risk-taking is respected, and actual work is less valued.

Thus, in the United States of America, the poor are despised, no matter how hard they work. This, too, is common in oligarchies.

That is why their goverment protects them from risks. The rich have inculcated into the public a respect for the rich, and a contempt for the poor.

America is a typical oligarchy, except that it is bigger than most.

And, so, this is my cultural and economic explanation of why the United States of America, with 4.21% of Worlds Population, Has 16% of Covid-19 Deaths.

Right now, here are the 20 countries that have the worlds highest percentages of their population thus far killed by covid 19:

1. Peru
2. Bosnia and Herzegovina
3. North Macedonia
4. Hungary
5. Montenegro
6. Bulgaria
7. Gibraltar
8. Czechia
9. Brazil
10. San Marino
11. Argentina
12. Colombia
13. Slovakia
14. Georgia
15. Paraguay
16. French Polynesia
17. Belgium
18. Slovenia
19. Italy
20. USA

All of that information is at the same site which also documents that America, with 4.21% of the worlds population, has 16% of the worlds covid-19 deaths. (This site also documents that whereas Chinas covid-19 death-rate per million inhabitants, thus far, has been 3, and that the same figure in the United States is 2,158 - it is 719 times higher. Peru has the worlds worst performance, 5,945, which is 198 times higher than Chinas.)

How many of those 20 countries are authentic democracies??

Is any of them, really??

If the public respect "entrepreneurs" more than they respect "workers," then what is the actual likelihood that the nation will actually be a democracy???

Are they not really bowing down to their aristocracy??

They have evidently been successfully indoctrinated, by the aristocracy. And, they are now dying, as a result of this - they are dying because of their cultures accepting (instead of condemning) this aristocratic indoctrination.

223 countries are listed, but some of them have fewer than 10,000 residents.

None of the worst 20 countries are that small.

In fact, the best-performing of all countries of over 5,000,000 population is the worlds most populous country, China, which has a "zero-tolerance" policy on covid-19, and a rigorous scientific system in place to carry out that policy.

So, China is at the exact opposite end from the 20 nations that are listed above.

Perhaps, over the long term, this might turn out to have been Chinas biggest advantage as an international economic competitor.

But, instead of the United States Governments praising and emulating China, the United States Government is now trying to dictate to China, and - unless China obeys - to overthrow its Government, and to grab control, over Taiwan, and also over Chinas coastal waters.

The United States of America operates a global empire, but its billionaires are never satisfied, and are determined for it to encompass every nation. The billionaires control their Government; the American public do not.

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