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I wonder if another interpretation might be that culture matters regardless what policies get enforced. I hear that people in Sweden stayed at home more and dis
by ajmurmann 6y ago
I wonder if another interpretation might be that culture matters regardless what policies get enforced. I hear that people in Sweden stayed at home more and distanced themselves regardless of enforcement. Similarly asian countries likely already had higher acceptance of mask wearing regardless of what was enforced and so on.
The praising of swedish policies seems to largely come from folks in the US wear we have no social/cultural consensuses because the country is so divided
- ghaff 6y agoYou're still making an assumption that those culture matters have an effect. For pretty much any country (or smaller region) it's easy to construct an after the fact rationalization of the outcomes. Asia did better because people accept mask wearing--true but it's still pretty minimal in normal times. But somehow lack of mask wearing probably didn't matter in Sweden--but that's because they hate getting anywhere near another person anyway. But in the US Trump supporters not wearing masks is a big problem. Etc. I'm not going to argue that nothing matters. (Certainly protecting especially vulnerable populations is something a lot of places totally whiffed on early.) But I expect that some things people are really polarized about don't matter much.
- rossdavidh 6y agoOur efforts (and by "our" I mean "the human species'") were absolutely unfocused. If we had spent the same amount of effort on getting the most vulnerable (mostly, the elderly) well away from the urban areas, we could have done a lot more good.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoIn very few places people in EU wear a mask in overall and public Healthcare experts say it's ineffective for general population.