Dissident Veteran For Peace: Comparison of Select COVID-19 Death Rates

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Monday, November 02, 2020

Comparison of Select COVID-19 Death Rates

	COVID-19 Deaths Per 1,000,000 Population	Median Age of Population
Republic of China (Taiwan) (pop. 23.6 million)	0.3	42.3
S. Korea (pop. 51.8 million)	9	43.2
Japan (pop. 125.5 million)	14	48.6
Norway (pop. 5.5 million)	52	39.5
Germany (pop. 80.2 million)	128	47.8
W. Virginia (pop. 1.8 million)	256	42.4
Canada (pop. 37.7 million)	270	41.8
Washington State (pop. 7.6 million)	313	37.6
California (pop. 39.5 million)	448	36.3
France (pop. 67.8 million)	573	41.7
Italy (pop. 62.4 million)	646	46.5
United Kingdom (pop. 65.8 million)	689	40.6
United States (pop. 332.6 million)	715	38.5
Michigan (pop. 10.0 million)	773	39.7
San Marino (pop. 34,232)	1,237	45.2
New York (pop. 19.5 million)	1,732	38.7
New Jersey (pop. 8.9 million)	1,856	39.8
Unless otherwise specified population estimates are for July 2020 and, along with median pop. age, are from the CIA's World Factbook. Death rates and U.S. state populations are from Worldometer. Median age for U.S. states is from World Population Review.