Just-so storytelling about places that avoid coronavirus is proving to be an irresistible journalistic form. Here's a fawning profile of Kerala's "rock star" health minister, who sounds awesome. Kerala has had only four deaths for 35 million people.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19 …
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Here's an article chastising the west for underestimating the hardy people of Thailand, even as the author admits the unusually low case load in the Mekong region is a mystery.https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/insights/covid-in-thailand-failed-and-foolhardy-predictions …
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Here's a victory lap for Slovakia(!), the new model state in Europe for fighting coronavirus, with 24 deaths out of 5.4M people. I've seen articles that talk straight-faced about Eastern Europe's history of suffering making the population more resilient.https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/06/slovakia-coronavirus-pandemic-public-trust-media/ …
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Meanwhile, the dictator in Belarus has all but pointed the plane at the ground, figuratively speaking, adopting policies that seem insane in the context of a pandemic. Yet the country has 121 dead out of 9 million. (Compare Belgium, 8.9k dead out of 11M)https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/08/belarus-lukashenko-coronavirus-pandemic-lockdown-containment-economy-russia/ …
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is there any danger that someone will do an antibody survey in Bihar or we're just going to take their numbers at face value
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Are the health care system and civil institutions there solid enough that we can safely assume that’s an accurate number? Deaths are reported promptly, individuals can seek medical care, that kind of thing?
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Important observations! People are forever clicking on their confirmation biases.
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