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It's true, the US beats the hell out of China in school shootings, and medical debt, racially targeted police brutality, bombing foreign countries, and number of homeless people, and... Oh I could do this for days.
Number of people in prison both as a percent of population and in sheer numbers...
US definitely has a prison problem. Definitely not acting like it's perfect.
But that makes China okay how? Do you even believe the numbers they spread? Covid is a great example of how reliable Chinese figures are.
COVID deaths had some degree of undercounting everywhere. Let’s do the global comparison, shall we? Here’s the ratio of estimated deaths (using figures like excess mortality rate) to report deaths globally:
Source: Figure 2 from https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/diseases-injuries/covid/estimation-total-and-excess-mortality-due-covid-19
At least I don't have a government score rating my contributions to a central power. China is a dystopia.
The U.S. has FICO credit score; it’s the same thing