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It is important to point out that Coronavirus emerged when the Northern hemisphere was still in Winter and early spring, a time where viruses can extremely thri
by dustinmoris 6y ago
It is important to point out that Coronavirus emerged when the Northern hemisphere was still in Winter and early spring, a time where viruses can extremely thrive and now the Northern hemisphere is seeing a second wave because we still don’t have a vaccine and are entering a full new winter with COVID.
The southern hemisphere had only to battle COVID for a single Winter, and that delayed too, having had already the advantage of all the lessons learned in Europe. It’s very likely that their second Winter will already see a vaccine so by pure chance when the virus emerged countries in the Southern hemisphere have had a much better situation and therefore should expect better outcomes.
- m_mueller 6y agoWe Europeans sure learned our lesson in spring...ohwait
- dustinmoris 6y agoYou are still disadvantaged against nature. We know that being more outdoors and having your windows more open is helping to reduce infections, but when you are entering Winter then a lot of the knowledge we have won’t stop the fact that infections will still rise due to the change in our behaviour in cold weather. It’s just a fact of life, the entire world sees infection spikes of other viruses (flu and so on) in Winters and therefore it’s not helpful to make sarcastic finger pointing comments when we all have accepted this as a fact of life and know this is just how it is.
- alisonatwork 6y agoIt makes sense that winter makes things worse, but if weather were the only factor, why is South America seeing far more cases than Australia?
- dustinmoris 6y agoBecause Australia suppressed the virus as much as they could with a very long lockdown. South America didn't, so they started with complete different baselines into their summers.
- thedays 6y agoOnly one state in Australia - Victoria - had a long lockdown. People in most other states have been living a fairly normal life for months.
- sjy 6y agoThe population of South America is more than 15 times larger.
- alisonatwork 6y agoMy comment was based on deaths per capita[0], which in most countries of South America are far higher than Australia and New Zealand. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...