I don't get the fascination with 'death percentage', yet it's such data gymnastics its become a solid republican/deniers talking point. The fact that we do more testing but our 'death percentage' is only 4.9% as opposed to EUs 11%, only says that EU had many more cases undetected, and if they did more testing, their 'death percentage' would have been 4.9% too.  ?!

Also, let's say 500 die per day for two weeks, then for 3 days in a row in jumps to 700 per day?  Isn't THAT what would be alarming, regardless of the percentage per cases (lets say the 'percentage' goes down from 4.9 to 3.8 due to more testing). Isn't more total deaths the stat to look at? 

I feel you're seeking stats in your favor without a reason for it as an indicator.

I agree Flagg, the US did basically 'begin' 2 or 3 weeks after EU. Sounds petty but we'll see where the US numbers are versus EU today. Although, they generally similar.

Secondly, you're comment at the end is odd. To say that 'draconian measures werent' needed for .04 death rate', because that's exactly what EU did!!  If we hadn't done draconian measures such as quarantine & masks, then numbers could be much higher than EU. The fact that the numbers match tells me that draconian measures worked.

Facts: The NY Times put out an article that Taliban troops were receiving bounty payments from Russians, for the killing of the US Troops. president trump claims he did not know about this.

Defend this?? 
A, Is you're defense it wasn't a big enough issue to warrant informing the president? 
B. Was the intel not confirmed enough to tell the president? 
C. Or was the president told about it, he just forgot? 
D. Or is president trump lying. 
E. Other (please explain) _____________________________

It's a hoax!
It's not a federal issue it's a state issue.
It's going to go away in the summer.
People will form antibodies.
It's going to go away.
The numbers are going down.

Reality
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.