Barozi said:
What's with these bullshit comparisons of yours? You have to accept that every nation has MULTIPLE factors that come into play - both negative and positive. Japan is an island country and therefore has a HUGE advantage over continental nations. Also the people there are used to wearing masks so they are far more effective at keeping the spread low. |
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32674696/
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20198796v1
A lot of Japan was swept the fuck over by SARS-Cov-2 months ago already, it just didn't happen to be as deadly there as in the Western World despite its similar demographic profile.
The same thing happened in parts of South Korea, apparently:
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/07/119_293207.html
That was to be expected since the R0 of the H1N1 pandemic back in 2009 wasn't actually that different between Japan and the US, despite all the yadda-yadda about different societal norms in the East and so forth.
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