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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by ReptileMan on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:58PM (#24212683)
There are 10 times more cases in US that haven't been tested for is one explanation.

Look - my country no one bothers to observe measures and our system is far from overloaded.

I think that a lot of influential l people threw too much social capital on stay at home and stuff like this and now they just can't handle the situation if covid is less dangerous than thought.

I think we are in the sink cost fallacy.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by oarsinsync on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:11PM (#24212857)
> There are 10 times more cases in US that haven't been tested for is one explanation.

There are 10x more deaths as a percentage of the population in the USA than in Qatar. The number of tests / positive cases is not relevant to that number.

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