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So you cherry pick an article about Shanghai, and generalize it to Asia? The West conveniently omits Taiwan’s and Japan’s continued success with Covid for 2 ye
by alephnan 4y ago
So you cherry pick an article about Shanghai, and generalize it to Asia?
The West conveniently omits Taiwan’s and Japan’s continued success with Covid for 2 years while the West sacrificed millions. I’m living my life and commuting as normal. Commute hours are packed full shoulder to shoulder. I feel way safer than in New York. New Zealand is another pacific Island that received outsized acclaim from the West. Guess what’s the difference between New Zealand and those Asian countries?
There’s also Vietnam, which for a country much lower on the economic progression has done exceedingly well.
Ofcourse Westerners and the West will say these Asian countries have skewed data because the don’t have tests. It was nearly impossible to find a covid test within a 2 week time frame in my hometown American city with a population over a million and an NBA team. Even then, I had to use a bot to hog a spot, then pay $200. In Japan, you can receive a test on the day throughout the pandemic and it cost less than $30. 95% of businesses in Japan do temperature checks and require hand sanitizers throughout 2021.
- josephg 4y ago> while the West sacrificed millions Australia and NZ are usually considered part of "the west". Culturally and ethnically, this is certainly true. You're frustrated people lump everyone in Asia together, as if its all one country. Please don't make the same mistake with "the west". We aren't one country either. If you want to criticise the USA's handling of covid, do so. Us westerners aren't a homogeneous block either. I'm proud that Australia's covid response was much closer to that of Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam than it was to the USA and Canada.
- zht 4y agowhat if they said "Europe and North America"?
- josephg 4y agoI wouldn’t object, but I’m not European or North American. Even within Europe there was a variety of responses to covid. Different places are different. We may all be addicted to the same smartphones, but globally the way different counties responded to covid differed wildly. Even painting the whole of the USA with the same brush feels a bit reductive. This is just as true in the west as it is in the east.