In the interests of fairness, here’s that chart:
You are correct, although i would suggest the Sweden curve shows they are on course to be as badly effected as those nations.
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In the interests of fairness, here’s that chart:
You are correct, although i would suggest the Sweden curve shows they are on course to be as badly effected as those nations.
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How come Taiwan has managed to have so few deaths? Particularly when so many would have returned from mainland China for Chinese New year?
I think it’s mainly due to a lot of the countries in that area are more prepared for pandemics.
The countries that appear to have been least hit are the ones that took clear and decisive action immediately.
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And bars, restaurants etc are still open there.
Yep, there's obviously examples of those countries which have locked down who have done it well and efficiently (NZ are in a really good place, relatively speaking, and Austria and Denmark seem to be readying themselves to lift certain measures and see how that goes).
Just meant in general it's baffling how the only 'solution' they ended up having (as in all the western governments in particular) was lockdown - basically a 17th-century style response.
Well, when one of the WHO bods was asked this, he refused to answer. So we might never get to know.
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Was that because China don't acknowledge Taiwan?
A couple of interesting facets on Sweden, close to 50% of Swedes live alone and have a high degree of social compliance. They are land bordered by countries who are in lock down. All of these things i think help manage an early out break and i think they are still in that phase. They are showing uneasy signs of exponential growth, they have the highest death rate per infection of all the Nordic countries.
Its an interesting argument on the economy, they are still motoring away at the moment, but internationally who are they trading with there has been massive disruption with over half of humanity in lock down. They are behind a trend of lock downs and there are growing calls and pressure in Swedan to implement some form of lock down. They may just go into one just as other countries begin to emerge. Another point would be going on in the months ahead and if you were an international company or government do you really want to be investing or trading with and in a country that you know let the virus run rampant through the country. I dont think countries will be opening up their borders for Swedes to travel any time soon either.
Its really a fascinating one to keep an eye on, its either genius or madness.
Its an interesting argument on the economy, they are still motoring away at the moment, but internationally who are they trading with there has been massive disruption with over half of humanity in lock down. They are behind a trend of lock downs and there are growing calls and pressure in Swedan to implement some form of lock down. They may just go into one just as other countries begin to emerge. Another point would be going on in the months ahead and if you were an international company or government do you really want to be investing or trading with and in a country that you know let the virus run rampant through the country. I dont think countries will be opening up their borders for Swedes to travel any time soon either.
Its really a fascinating one to keep an eye on, its either genius or madness.
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witchdoc187
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What did they do though? They didn't have an immediate lockdown did they? I honestly don't know
Yes. So WHO refused to do so too. He refused to answer the question even though it was asked multiple times.
I think it was similar to South Korea's approach. Test and contact tracing.
I was just reading about it here funny enough:
Covid-19: how world leaders responded to the crisis
While Jair Bolsonaro sabotaged quarantine efforts in Brazil, Jacinda Ardern was quietly impressive in New Zealand. Observer writers assess premiers’ reactions to the pandemic
Strolled over to the corner shop yesterday and was surprised to see they were selling face masks, 12 euro for 3 masks. They were just basic surgical masks, nothing like N95s. Thats some mark up, considering they are single use.
Perhaps the future, id say there are a number of manufactures out there beginning to produce these and they will begin to feed these into the local supply chain, it might be very common soon to see masks for sale everywhere.
Perhaps the future, id say there are a number of manufactures out there beginning to produce these and they will begin to feed these into the local supply chain, it might be very common soon to see masks for sale everywhere.
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indeed, but they are also the only one not on lockdown......
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