People are writing stories about why Brazil is facing a rapid rise in coronavirus cases, but I want to read the stories about why Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan are not. And they really aren't, and it is beyond time for people to get curious about why not.
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You can claim that everybody is lying and undercounting, and the whole world looks like Lombardy and London, but if that's true, where are the bodies? This should be the #1 mystery about coronavirus we attempt to solve, because it might offer a quicker way out of the crisis.
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On a domestic U.S. note, this raises an urgent question—what if we really can lift restrictions across most of the country safely? Republicans who say this are being vilified, but honesty compels us to say they have strong evidence on their side. People need to get more curious
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Again, it's really hurting us to have most of the American media be highly neurotic residents of the cities hit hardest by this disease
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Standard responses I get to this line of inquiry are "just you wait, it will get worse", "we're not seeing the real data", and "show me the peer-reviewed studies that back this up". But we can't all go McClellan on this topic, and refuse to act on partial information in a crisis
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maybe the rest of the world isn't testing that much and a 1% fatality rate is really biased high by testing?
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based on early models we should have bodies piling up in the streets in the developing world by now and we aren't seeing that as you say, so maybe we should question the visible stats rather than the invisible
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third world here - i feel like much of the world is simply not testing enough for us to have even remotely trustworthy numbers
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i'd even go so far as to say that in some countries ,such as here in the Philippines, the government is intentionally not testing as much as they should precisely to keep the numbers down
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Seriously? The rest of the world tests and contact traces. We are doing no contact tracing in this country. The number of tests administered remains an absolute joke.
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Brazil, Iran, Mexico way under reporting cases, deaths by order of the government. Most of your thread has been covered extensively (and is free) by the New York Times.
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