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What if Wuhan were in Missouri?
How #COVID19 might look different in the United States than China:
- The US has a less compliant population (more resistant to quarantine measures)
- Higher potential for riots/looting
- More people in poor health
- More transparent government
- Larger prison population - More children per family unit - Fewer old people per family unit (sadly our grandmas and grandpas are in old folks' homes instead of with their kids) - Less dense - Less public transport, but more mass gatherings (places of worship)
- (this one really freaks me out as more countries engage in export bans) weaker medical supply chain - Larger homeless population - Generally, cleaner, more hygienic - Weaker community identity, sense of local belonging - Rule of law! (slower to respond, but fairer responses)
- Higher percentage of workers able to telecommute (service economy) - Higher illegal immigrant population who will not come forward about infection - Less respect for the seriousness of disease (no SARS history) - More ostracization for weird behaviors like mask-wearing
Outside of our density and high percentage of electronic service economy workers, I don't see the United States handling this well compared to China. They were dealt a much worse hand and seem to, up until this point, played it much better. We'll see!
It is all about speed... How fast can you trace and keep population at risk from mixing up? ... So the effectiveness of the DC is not about political system...however I bet Chinese CCP would perform much better
Maybe US can detect the virus faster, if CDC was working as intended. Wuhan's hospitals are flooded with respirational patients, may be 0.4k-4k per day per hosp, or 10-50k in total. It is almost impossible to find an unknown disease among them, esp when it is thetricky COVID19.
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