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That's fair. I just didn't really see where you were coming as a reply to the original comment, where you'd written "prior outbreaks ... only variable" and the

• mistermann 7y ago
  I really don't intend to be argumentative, but I'm not seeing at all what is hard to understand about my comment. Is it not generally accepted that Asian cultures tend to be more conformist and "harmonious"? If it was about the "prior outbreaks" part, that commented was making a reference to the ~common belief that the superior outcome for Asian countries was solely the result of their past experiences with SARS, etc. In retrospect, I should have made that reference explicitly, apologies for that.