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Re:CDC considering recommending general public wear face cov... by fspeech on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:29PM (#22734701)
Singapore has thorough testing and contact tracing. They also take quarantine extremely seriously.
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Re:CDC considering recommending general public wear face cov... by notadev on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:27AM (#22734943)
And they only have ~5 million people to deal with. Easier to contain a virus in a city-state as small as Singapore.
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Re:CDC considering recommending general public wear face cov... by fspeech on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:15AM (#22735091)
Why is that true? They are densely populated. Fewer people also means fewer resources: for example they couldn't supply themselves with masks.
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