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by dools 1946 days ago
Some nations stopped it. I live in Australia and aside from a handful of days long lockdowns life has basically been normal. China stopped it and they have heaps of people. The US failed spectacularly because it was being run by a bunch of anarcho capitalists
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ekianjo 1946 days ago
> Australia

It's fairly easy to prevent stuff from entering the country when you are an island. Singapore also had no problem in doing it. Notice some kind of pattern?

> China stopped it and they have heaps of people

Do you trust any data coming from China? Because North Korea also claimed they had zero death from COVID.

Also, it's fairly clear by now that there is some genetic component with COVID: there are less death in asian ethnic groups compared to others, so having less deaths in China/Japan/Korea is consistent in that regard anyway.

> The US failed spectacularly

Comparing to death rates across Europe, not that much different actually. Media brainwashing much?

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dools 1946 days ago
Yes you are clearly the victim of media brainwashing.
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rayiner 1946 days ago
The same anarcho capitalists running France, Spain, Italy, Germany, etc?
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dools 1946 days ago
Well ... in a sense, the UK is worst hit and were slow to act because of their right wing governments. In Australia our right wing federal government mishandled things but the states were the ones who kept it under control. The rest of continental Europe has been nowhere near as bad as the US, you guys are a total shit show right now
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rayiner 1946 days ago
France, Italy, and Spain are in the same ballpark as the US. The US is basically tied with Italy and Spain in deaths per capita. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
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dools 1945 days ago
Order that data by the final column (deaths in the last 7 days) descending. Spain and Italy were both hit relatively early, and many European countries are suffering second and third waves because of lockdown fatigue and libertarian propaganda on Facebook. But the US winter has been absolute mayhem and it was all driven by trump trying to get re elected by hook or by crook.
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