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> Sure, experience from SARS plays a role, too. But... South Korea holds regular country wide simulations for pandemics because of SARS and bird flu. Their la
by DarthGhandi 7y ago
> Sure, experience from SARS plays a role, too. But...
South Korea holds regular country wide simulations for pandemics because of SARS and bird flu.
Their last one was 18 months ago and ironically focused on simulating a large scale coronavirus outbreak.
You might be overestimating the cultural differences here compared to plain old preparedness.
- qayxc 7y agoThey also use their superior communication infrastructure for basically total surveillance of affected citizens. This is something that isn't technically possible in Europe and simply doesn't fly with the vast majority of the population. Their strategy is based on policies that just don't work in Europe. EDIT: also not to forget that South Korea is technically an island with its only land border being the most fortified one in the world...
- wbl 7y agoHave you read Discipline and Punish? Europe was doing this 400 years ago.
- DarthGhandi 7y agoYeah that's a fair point. Another point I forget to mention is mask wearing which certainly is cultural. In Australia and much of the West it's considered not normal whereas no one thinks twice in Asia. I've seen Australians say they wouldn't wear one even if sick and we've had incidents of people abusing perfectly healthy mask wearers in Sydney demanding they self quarantine. These attitudes within a society have pretty clear outcomes for anything contagious.