I've been wondering about this too! Curious if anyone has yet come up with a decent argument. Population density popped into my head but who knows if that makes sense.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1322536115438575618 …
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Also European political leadership loosened restrictions as case counts were moderating and seeded new growth. That paper just came out lining England’s new growth directly to policy encouraging eating in restaurants, for instance
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The opening up of bars and discos seems to be the real problem.
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50% of those countries are dictatorships.
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Have these people actually looked into what these countries do? Like, if Trump tried to do any of the things the South Korean government does he would be impeached by morning. Imagine Trump using the national guard to enforce a quarantine of people coming from China.
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This was the most obvious difference to me too.
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Japan has some of the lowest testing rates per capita in the world.
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Travel bans and/or centralized quarantines have been staples of their response
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All of which have had extremely differnet reactions with widely variet results. Similar Asian neighbors have had even wider results. Most of which, though, are still below major EU/US levels. It may simply be the case that there are genetic variances that lighten the effects.
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Vector minimization is culture-dependent. Asians have the lowest death rate per capita in the United States, too.pic.twitter.com/CVi1VRQXD0
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“The enigma of lower death rates in East Asia can be explained by the presence of immunity.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/researchers-ponder-why-covid-appears-more-deadly-in-the-us-and-europe-than-in-asia/2020/05/26/81889d06-8a9f-11ea-9759-6d20ba0f2c0e_story.html …
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