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Reconsidered my opinion: I agree with a reply below. The primary determiner of how well a place responds to Covid seems to be their experience with SARS, and p

Reconsidered my opinion: I agree with a reply below. The primary determiner of how well a place responds to Covid seems to be their experience with SARS, and possibly other infectious respiratory diseases like TB.

modwest 7y ago
no
- nopinsight 7y ago
  If you have reasons or evidence, please explain.
  - modwest 7y ago
    I presented as much reason or evidence to support my post as you did.
nopinsight 7y ago
If you disagree or downvote, please explain. I'd like to hear reasons and evidence.
- frequentnapper 7y ago
  lol. shouldn't you first present evidence and reasons as opposed to ideology?
maxander 7y ago
People are probably downvoting you because it's generally frowned upon to make baseless "just-so" claims, especially in something as difficult to make credible claims in as geopolitics, and especially when it asserts the superiority of some groups over others (or appears to.) That all being said, there have been studies of how "meritocratic" different societies are (albeit I don't know how that is operationalized) and there will be very quantitative measures of how well each country weathers the pandemic; someone could certainly (when the data is in) check to see how those features tend to relate.
wonnage 7y ago
I'm not sure how you came up with this, Singapore and Hong Kong meritocratic? They're both oligarchies where all the land and influence in the city is owned by a few powerful families. Also the fact that excluding Vietnam all of these countries are either islands or have a single land border (don't think a lot of people are coming into South Korea from North Korea?) probably makes controlling the disease a lot easier.
robbseaton 7y ago
Previous experience with SARS is a better candidate for "primary determiner."
fireattack 7y ago
How do you even define "best people"? Any how exactly are these people "rise to the top" for the leaders to follow in these countries? Some more details examples would be helpful.
standardUser 7y ago
It is far, far too early in this pandemic to start grading the efficacy of any jurisdiction's approach.

modwest 7y ago

nopinsight 7y ago
If you have reasons or evidence, please explain.
- modwest 7y ago
  I presented as much reason or evidence to support my post as you did.

nopinsight 7y ago

If you disagree or downvote, please explain. I'd like to hear reasons and evidence.

frequentnapper 7y ago
lol. shouldn't you first present evidence and reasons as opposed to ideology?

maxander 7y ago

People are probably downvoting you because it's generally frowned upon to make baseless "just-so" claims, especially in something as difficult to make credible claims in as geopolitics, and especially when it asserts the superiority of some groups over others (or appears to.) That all being said, there have been studies of how "meritocratic" different societies are (albeit I don't know how that is operationalized) and there will be very quantitative measures of how well each country weathers the pandemic; someone could certainly (when the data is in) check to see how those features tend to relate.

wonnage 7y ago

I'm not sure how you came up with this, Singapore and Hong Kong meritocratic? They're both oligarchies where all the land and influence in the city is owned by a few powerful families. Also the fact that excluding Vietnam all of these countries are either islands or have a single land border (don't think a lot of people are coming into South Korea from North Korea?) probably makes controlling the disease a lot easier.

robbseaton 7y ago

Previous experience with SARS is a better candidate for "primary determiner."

fireattack 7y ago

How do you even define "best people"? Any how exactly are these people "rise to the top" for the leaders to follow in these countries? Some more details examples would be helpful.

standardUser 7y ago

It is far, far too early in this pandemic to start grading the efficacy of any jurisdiction's approach.