[ExI] The Japanese mystery: why so few COVID cases?

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 17:52:38 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:53 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:23 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> *> Well, there are some differences: - masks are more than socially
>> acceptable, they are socially required in this situation. *
>
>
> And the USA is the only country in the world In which wearing a virus
> preventing mask has become part of the culture wars, and is the only
> country in which the president makes a point of not setting an example and
> never being photographed wearing one because he thinks everything is about
> him and wearing such a medical mask is a political statement of disapproval
> of him personally.
>

To the latter point, Brazil's president was famously pretty much that -
until a federal judge ordered him to wear a mask.  Trump is not as alone as
you think.

However I will grant, it is questionable whether Trump would think such an
order could apply to him should he receive a similar order.
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