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Originally Posted by ChiliConCarnage
Why didn't it blow up nearly anywhere in Asia? Outside of initial outbreak zones, they seem to have approached this much more seriously. I guess experience and being used to wearing masks maybe made some difference.
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It is, they got way out ahead of it and tested the crap out of people. But they also did some things that I don't think would fly here, and that's not unreasonable at all. But in general they were way out ahead of things and that's a huge advantage. By the time something like this is here, it's too late. At the end of the day we're going to say "America did this many tests!" but many of them came after this thing was already spreading widely.
It's not just an Asian thing though. New Zealand has an advantage because it's islands, but still, they have like 12 deaths. Total. In the whole country. But America is different culturally. A lot of people care more about being stubborn than being right.