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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Yes, I see what you’re saying, at a general level. To point to a specific for a moment, the US developed a national pandemic response plan post-SARS, which the current admin dismantled. Not clear how “prompt” it would have been, but would prob have delivered a second term.
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China is a colonial organism, while the US, esp. the greatest generation, used to be an optimized composite or mutual organism like lichen or coral. Colonials either get it really right (now) or really wrong (Mao) because they’re hierarchical. Composites need trial-and-error.
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Composites also need good information to make optimal decentralized decisions. Polarization, ideological spam, monopolization (weak anti-trust enforcement), and even outside informational warfare gunk up the system. We’re not even a composite organism under Trump.
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