Normally, I never write blogs every three days, but here I go. Since I am a scientist, not a politician, my quantitative assessment will be based on a careful analysis of the available data. The bottom line of this blog is shown in Figure 0 . First, there are all incremental deaths in the US over and above German deaths multiplied by four to scale the German population to the size of the US population (the blue curve). Second, for the reasons described below, one can subtract 1/3 of the US deaths that occurred in nursing homes. These deaths have been caused by 40 years of neglect and the horrific state of the US for-profit industry that mines old people. The remaining 35,000 incremental deaths in the US (the red curve) can be attributed to the disastrous policies of the federal government under Trump. That's nearly twelve 9/11 body counts in the US, with more to come. Figure 0. The excess deaths in the US compared with German deaths multiplied by...
In this blog, I continue to write about the environment, ecology, energy, complexity, and humans. Of particular interest to me are human self-delusions and mad stampedes to nowhere.