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I can't believe we're still having this debate in April when it should have been settled in Feb. After Wuhan got hit, a bunch of countries repatriated their cit
by shalmanese 7y ago
I can't believe we're still having this debate in April when it should have been settled in Feb. After Wuhan got hit, a bunch of countries repatriated their citizens and tested every single person.
From Reddit:
South Korea: 802 imported cases, 17 from China, 389 from Europe, 306 from Americas.
Taiwan: evacuated 975 from Wuhan so far, only 1 tested positive. 728 evacuated from Wuhan since March 10th, 0 positives.
Singapore: ~80% of 800 cases imported, 24 from China.
Ontario (Province of Canada): 968 imported cases, US 318, UK 101, Mexico 49, Spain 46, Germany 34... China 5. HK 1 - HK has 200x less population than China.
It was clear Wuhan was hit by something incredibly deadly that had only barely started inching its way through the population.
South Korea is one of the most comprehensively tested nations on the planet and their death rate right now is 2%.
People are still desperately clinging onto a narrative that this thing is way less deadly than it appears and twisting and distorting all sorts of stats to get them there but it just plain is vanishingly unlikely to be true.
This virus started with Westerners assuming that they were somehow exceptionally different from Asians and did not need to learn from their experience and it will end with Westerners assuming that they are exceptionally different from Asians and do not need to learn from their experiences.
- Markoff 7y agothose numbers are not really comparable if you don't factor demographics like proportion of age groups in population, average life expectancy, how overloaded or capable is the health system, how are deaths counted and social habits like cogenerational living (IT/ES) vs most single person households at least in Europe (SE) or even how people socialize with greetings (FR, ES, IT), how common is social distancing many of these would explain why SoKo, Japan and Sweden fare well without lockdown