South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
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Re: South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
#2Guess which model we (the U.S.) will choose - Chinese model or S. Korean?
Also, very cool chart in the article.
Re: South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
#3Guess which model we (the U.S.) will choose - Chinese model or S. Korean? Also, very cool chart in the article.
I was surprised that the article did not mention the key role of testing and contact tracing - without these elements, it would not be possible for the US to follow the South Korean model.
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#4I heard that South Korea had/has a very large supply of very accurate coronavirus tests. Probably lots of testing is also why their death rates are low (not only hospitalizable cases are counted). Maybe a significant motivator in these decisions is whether or not you can test a lot of people?
Re: South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
#5They are coming back again (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...). Numbers are lagging indicators, and the virus grows exponentially. They are going to go up again
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#6> Contrast this with developments in the few days since Italy put its entire country under quarantine, active cases have risen from between 5,000 and 6,000 to over 8,500.
Stopped reading there, it's not worth my time. It takes up to two weeks to develop any symptoms, so remarks like that are either misguided or intentionally misleading.
Re: South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
#7They are coming back again ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore... ). Numbers are lagging indicators, and the virus grows exponentially. They are going to go up again
infection rate or deaths?
Re: South Korea Preserved the Open Society and Now Infection Rates Are Falling
#8I heard that South Korea had/has a very large supply of very accurate coronavirus tests. Probably lots of testing is also why their death rates are low (not only hospitalizable cases are counted). Maybe a significant motivator in these decisions is whether or not you can test a lot of people?
A large number of available and accurate tests definitely mattered. But that is not merely enough, someone had to make decisions and coordinate the efforts. I have no idea who that was, but they did a great job.
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#9The US can't follow the South Korean model because the US does not have the testing infrastructure for it: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-korea-scaled-co...
This article presents it as dueling narratives: open versus authoritarian. This implies that, as of now, the US has some choice. But we don't. We screwed up testing when it was small and containable, and now it's not.
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#10Article presents opinions based on a broad and incomplete picture. This might be the most harmful type of publication right now, the author wants to justify his feelings of "The U.S.'s liberty is expendable, but it doesn't have to be" when the reality is the U.S. was not equipped in the ways S. Korea were. He wanted to make a specific point and ignored the obvious facts that would make the point invalid.