Still can’t believe the official Chinese Covid fatalatity statistics of just over 4634. Even if it’s “only” an order of magnitude off and the real number is 46k it’s still unbelievably good. Hard to believe authoritarian control works that perfectly. Anyone have alt estimates?
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Accepting 100x as high US fatality rate as correct, and factoring out aging population, obesity, I’d like to see a real estimate of “cost of freedom” fatalities vs “cost of trump” fatalities. We’ll never know for sure. I’d guess Trumpism added 20% on top of basic Americanism.
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I do believe the India numbers, currently at 133k. More like China in size and culture, more like US in governance. Accounting for much younger population, I’d say the better performance is entirely a result of the early strict lockdown that they couldn’t keep going long enough.
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The US really seems like a case of “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
What’s the game what’s the prize
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This table is in many ways the future map of the world. Similarity of Covid performance is the new top geopolitical affinity variable. It mostly mirrors old affinities but not exactly. cnn.com/interactive/20
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Seems right to me? Can't think of a good reason for anyone to cover up deaths after the initial coverup
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Though authoritarian control and its strong incentives against raising alarms / looking bad to superiors also contributes to outbreaks like this happening in the first place
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id rather live in a free country with rampant disease than an authoritarian government with no freedom
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Vietnam as well managed to keep their deaths extremely low. Culture is superseding even the authoritarian state.
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