Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by ookblah on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:46PM
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uh what, more likely because disease resistance? places like SK absolutely are doing well because of policy difference. Restricting access in, robust contact tracing, phased levels of lockdown that are clear and unified.
Some of these would never work in the US due to gov't structure and just the culture of people (privacy rights), but to discount American politics is a stretch. The entire debacle has been a war on misinformation from the top down.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by jhpriestley on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:03PM
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If it is past exposures and disease resistence, how do you explain early spread in Wuhan? Why does Aus/NZ enjoy natural immunity but not Indonesia? Quarantines are effective against all infectious diseases and have been for centuries, why do you assume they were not effective in places like China and Vietnam? Where is the evidence that disease resistance plays any role?
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by lostlogin on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:30PM
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> No countries have performed particularly well, despite trying everything from strict lockdowns to no response at all.
South Korea, Vietnam, Australia, Taiwan and New Zealand would seem to be examples countries that have minimises deaths.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
I have no idea where the worldometers.info data is coming from.
Regardless of small differences, painting Covid-19 as a uniquely American problem stemming from American politics is silly. No countries have performed particularly well, despite trying everything from strict lockdowns to no response at all. East and South East Asia is outperforming, but that likely has more to do with past exposures and disease resistance than it is due to policy difference.