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.https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/ …
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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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The world isn't just a dichotomy between US and China, there are countries that are (effectively) more free than the US because they have strong social support and cheap healthcare for working people, that also dealt with covid much more effectively.
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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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It's real, and it's spectacular. The government had a strong response and the people embraced that response. The lockdown was much harder than anything in the west, and subsequent quarantines work. Now testing/tracing frozen meat/seafood.
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still eleven times higher per capita than taiwan tbf taiwan had time to prepare
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I have no idea how accurate the numbers for the original surge are but by all accounts, it seems like the virus is completely gone now.
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