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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 26 Feb 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

      tangentially: fwiw, I think that Africa is going to get REKT by this literally megadeathshttps://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1232688955583275009 …

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      Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
      There's only been two cases in Africa so far but it's already devastating the continent - economically. When China gets a cold, the world sneezes. pic.twitter.com/7vElGJn63T
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 26 Feb 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Poi

      2/ I'm assuming 50% infection rate, 10% death rate (far higher than we'll see in the West). x 1.2 billion = 60 million deadhttps://twitter.com/poiThePoi/status/1232691712910295041 …

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      Poi @poiThePoi
      2% mortality on a billion Africans is 20 Million dead. Adjust for whatever infection rate you assume, but 10% is still 2 Megadeath. More relevantly, the hospitals that they don't have are the places where 25% of the infectees sit on ventilators (ditto) for a month.
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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 26 Feb 2020

      3/ Previous African pandemics have been nipped in the bud by massive western intervention. ...but this time, the west is going to export far fewer doctors, masks, etc. because we'll be busy at home. African health care is, to a good approximation, non existent. >>>

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 26 Feb 2020

      4/ And I have no a priori reason to expect that Africans will behave in a low-time-preference, high conscientiousness manner. >>>

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 26 Feb 2020

      5/ read things like this > Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for an estimated 69 percent of all people living with HIV and 70 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011 to establish baselines for how Africans will act / how Africa will be hit by a pandemic.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 26 Feb 2020

      6/ Also, we in the west are well placed for turtling up, working remotely, purchasing food and supplies via Amazon / Walmart / UPS, which means that a few firms can take precautions to sterilize packages. Africans can't do that - work and shopping is all f2f.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 26 Feb 2020

      7/ and finally, wealth makes everything better, poverty makes everything worse. How much does a box of facemasks and a bunch of standard medicines cost, as a percent of your weekly disposable income? ...as a percent of an African's disposable income?

      7:48 AM - 26 Feb 2020
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        2. Micah Odor‏ @micahodor 26 Feb 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP

          I was going to concretely answer a rhetorical question, but a quick look at Amazon isn't showing the cheap masks I've seen in the past. Inventory removed? Or am I just missing something?

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        3. Micah Odor‏ @micahodor 26 Feb 2020
          Replying to @micahodor @MorlockP

          And what counts as "standard medicines" in this case?

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        1. PoliTex‏ @PoliPat1 26 Feb 2020
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          The pilgrimage to Mecca gonna be lit.

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        1. Jacque‏ @Jajngn 26 Feb 2020
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          If the genetic theories are accurate, African populations may not have the predisposition to be seriously ill.

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