I don't want to fucking hear any shit about how what we're going through in the US was inevitable and the quarantine/containment strategy was an impossible dream I have relatives in Taiwan who are going to work at the office, going out to eat, hanging out in bars
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People in Taiwan are just as capable of being selfish, shitty, stubborn, etc. as anyone else But they respond rationally to incentives, and they respond to their environment, to social pressure and to signals they receive from leaders That's what a leader's job is
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There's tons of Americans, especially when the outbreak first began, who were rightly TERRIFIED of infection and going to ABSURD lengths to avoid it All the memes about compulsively sanitizing your hands every five minutes, bleaching your groceries, etc.
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Why do sick people wear a mask when sick without a government mandate to do so? Comparing a population with that ingrained into its culture with one that puts individualism on a pedestal and stating they would react the same is disingenuous.
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Mask-wearing is an extremely recent cultural quirk in Asian cultures in the grand scheme of things, in Taiwan it dates directly back to the first SARS outbreak in 2003
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I think there are legit cultural differences, but it’s not that Asians are all robotic rules-followers. It’s that American culture is designed around exploiting people, and that affects our behavior.
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I personally believe workers are more exploited there, in some cases by choice, some not.
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