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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!
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