Ranked by cases of Covid-19 per million people, the bottom countries — meaning the worst — as of this afternoon, are as follows (cases per million people are the far right column):


Marshaling all our personal knowledge of the world and, even, our offensive but perhaps relevant prejudices, we struggle to see a useful pattern here. Indeed, in these admittedly early days these data would seem to mock the hope that rising temperatures might contain the virus.
Damn.
No Comments