I know it's might seem like unrelated topic, but I encourage you to read Branko Milanovic's view on success and failures of COVID19 strategis in west vs east.

I know it's might seem like unrelated topic, but I encourage you to read Branko Milanovic's view on success and failures of COVID19 strategis in west vs east. The public, and thus I think, the governments were unwilling to take the East Asian approach to the pandemic because of a culture of impatience, of desire to quickly solve all problems, to bear only very limited costs. https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/12/2020/impatience-deep-cause-western-failure-handling-pandemic https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/12/2020/impatien...