But most importantly of all, consistent, easy to follow instructions for the public. No more politics, no more controversy. The media and authorities need to show a united front for people or we can't get their cooperation. Most of the lives we lost could have been saved.
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Replying to @Trinitydraco1 @DanielleFong
Yes the politics of what is required to fully contain are the downfall for non authoritarian countries. Is the only government suitable for containing a novel/contagious virus an authoritarian government or do representative democracies still have hope?
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Replying to @StewartalsopIII @Trinitydraco1
There are no cases in Nova Scotia for more than two weeks. New Zealand is also ok. Hong Kong did well despite the leadership because of the organised democratic protest movement.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @Trinitydraco1
Good examples but both New Zealand and Sweden (I realize you didn't mention Sweden) are outliers which would be hard to spread their practices to places as diverse and massive as places like India, the United States and Brazil. India has had an interesting strategy.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @Trinitydraco1
I don't think we will know that for another 2 years
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I live in Stockholm and have been following the whole thing pretty closely. Disaster or not, I have never seen the situation represented accurately in foreign (or domestic, for that matter) media. Not that it's easy. Ask me anything I guess
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is this data accurate? The media appalling everywhere imo with these positivity numbers it seems like sweden is getting better, though it's still bad. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing …pic.twitter.com/WC1GppaloV
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Without checking primary sources, I'd say it looks accurate. Testing has ramped up lately (better late than never), and some maps don't control for that ("Sweden is the only red country!"). Deaths and ICU admissions have been in a slow decline for a while now.
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Replying to @monoscient @DanielleFong and
And yeah, this whole thing has just been above the pay grade of media
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gotcha, good to know this tracks with ground truth. agree that "sweden is the only red country" is the narrative but i mean, that's almost fated.
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Underreported, imho: Stockholm has about 1/4 of the population and almost 1/2 of the deaths. Scania, which is quite densly populated and includes the 3rd largest city, Malmö, has about 1/10 of the population and 1/20 of the deaths. The measures have been the same.
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Even within Stockholm there is enormous variation between boroughs. There are no official statistics, but some poor areas have been severely hit, and some rich boroughs have been mostly spared. We don't know why.
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