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South Korea. Simply because we would balk at the idea of surrendering privacy is simply Darwinism in action - being too stupid to survive.
They may well not have had enough masks but I'd rather have their body count, and closer return to a normal economy than ours.
Some in this thread want to surrender 200,000 souls to get the economy going, l'd say a short term invasion of privacy seems a small price to pay.
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South Korea does not have enough protective masks - it has started rationing them - and it is trying to hire more trained staff to process tests and map cases.
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In South Korea as in Italy, an early case of COVID-19 was identified when a medical officer followed their intuition, rather than the official guidelines, on testing.
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So the South Korean rules on testing didn't work. They were disregarded by that medical officer.
When 61% of your cases can be traced back to just one person, it makes it a lot easier.
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“Patient 31,” as she became known, was a member of a secretive church which Deputy Minister for Health and Welfare Kim Gang-lip said has since linked to 61% of cases. Infections spread beyond the congregation after the funeral of a relative of the church’s founder was held at a nearby hospital, and there were several other smaller clusters around the country.
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If there are more points of introduction of the virus spread around the country, it leads to more cases and more difficultly tracing anybody. IT DOES NOT SPONTANEOUSLY ARISE. It has to be introduced somewhere. It should be blatantly obvious that the more points of introduction means more cases. There is no simple way of comparing number of cases between countries. Just as you can't compare Northern Italy with Southern Italy. Southern Italy didn't magically do better.