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Learning From South Korea

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Seoul, South Korea has 9m people and no more than 1000 cases while New York state has 20m people and about 190,000 cases. New York state should be learning all it can from Seoul re: containing the virus. They are a democratic society which has tools that can be used in New York and other parts of the US.
 
Tennis said:
Seoul, South Korea has 9m people and no more than 1000 cases while New York state has 20m people and about 190,000 cases. New York state should be learning all it can from Seoul re: containing the virus. They are a democratic society which has tools that can be used in New York and other parts of the US.
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Conservatives would freak the **** out about 'mah freedoms' if the U.S. implemented South Korean containment measures.
 
I hear what you are saying, but I can't imagine conservatives are happy about our much higher (New York state's extremely higher) case counts and how that stretches out the time for business closures.
 
Tennis said:
I hear what you are saying, but I can't imagine conservatives are happy about our much higher (New York state's extremely higher) case counts and how that stretches out the time for business closures.
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How long do you foresee this carrying on for? The closure of non-essential business?
 
IDK, but South Korea's nationwide total of 10,000 cases out of 50m people creates a per capita case rate that is a much better starting point.
 
This is humans vs the virus. There are different approaches to how to contain its spread. However, it still comes down to how can all of us as humans contain its spread.
 
Winston said:
Conservatives would freak the **** out about 'mah freedoms' if the U.S. implemented South Korean containment measures.
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Does New York care more about the feelings of conservatives than it does about saving its own people?
 
The Republic of Korea has universal healthcare, thus it has the means and ability to contain and treat a pandemic. Unlike the United States which doesn't care if poor people die from treatable, preventable diseases.
 
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