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I think this serves to better explain the low case totals out of africa, but that might change in the near future.

• spectramax 7y ago
  Also, India which is not yet mentioned in the news, a country of 1+ billion people.
  • aungmyohtet 7y ago
    Also in Myanmar which shares the same border as China, 0 cases have been confirmed so far.
• cambalache 7y ago
  Why? Do you realize Africa is a huge continent with all kinds of weather right? https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/?continent=africa https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/?continent=africa
  • spectramax 7y ago
    Yes, but the average temperature in vast majority of the areas is higher than the avg temperature of say Europe. When we say Africa is warmer, it is a simplification simply by the virtue that its centroid closer to equator than Europe. Thus, we can say that it's warmer. Side note: don't use rhetorical questions to respond to someone. It's demeaning. Rephrase "Why? Africa is a huge continent with all kinds of weather."
    • throwaway4773 7y ago
      It's not demeaning, it actually adds color to the answer and makes it more engaging. I don't know what's up with HN's fetishizing of impassionate, humorless and snarkless style. Not everything has to be written like the IEE 754 specification.
      • elcomet 7y ago
        You can be passionate and nice to people. This was mean.
      • DenisM 7y ago
        Snarky comments explicitly discouraged in the official guidelines, which you can find at the bottom of this page.
  • rriepe 7y ago
    There's a visualization here: https://twitter.com/JeromeRoos/status/1236729011889418246 https://twitter.com/JeromeRoos/status/1236729011889418246
    • cambalache 7y ago
      Those temperatures are normalized to sea-level. If you go to say La Paz or Macchu Pichu expecting scorching weather based on that graphic you are going to have a bad time.