Re: NP nations fight a virus
Some board member or other suggested this a couple of weeks ago. I think that well-managed Punctilious countries will come off better than anyone else in the pandemic-stricken globalized world. Lower death rates are multifactoral:
- Belief, trust, even deference to science; tendency to seek accurate guidance.
- Local manufacturing; better, faster supply lines for vital equipment.
- Organized top-down response; universal healthcare free at the point of use.
- Frequent testing and re-testing of population.
- Rapid isolation of new cases, containment of new outbreaks.
- Testing at the border of all visitors.
- Aversion to close social contact, lack of promiscuity, large-scale public gatherings.
- Public health strongly prioritized over business-as-usual.
- Fewer religious festivals, gatherings.
- Better personal hygiene and education therein. Wash your hands!
- Consistent use of preventative attire; masks, gloves.
- Cultural homogeneity; obedience to the state, high value placed upon collective welfare.
- Data fetishism, use of new technology; remote temperature monitors, facial scanning.
- Few reservations over human rights, civil liberties; speedy use of strict lockdown, physical force, harsh punishments for violators.
Before the crisis ramped up here in Spain - a nation where friends greet one another with a kiss on each cheek - a good number of those in the Chinese community left for China. Witnessing the Spanish health minister be a disgrace to his profession by confidently declaring that only minimal cases would happen, and another minister justify allowing Madrid's enormous women's rally on March 8th by saying 'machismo kills more than coronavirus', rightly spooked them. Don't get me started on that bumbling silver spoon clown in charge of the UK either. A supremely informative source of information is Dr. John Campbell, who began sounding off about Covid-19 in January:
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