<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The problem with comparing Koreans and people from New York City is the difference between Asians in general and Americans in general. National character matters.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Asian are raised to conform and not stick out, not even raising your hand in class to ask a question because that calls attention to yourself. So, whatever the masses are doing, that's what Asians want to do.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Americans are individualists and conformity is anathema - at least comparatively speaking. Just give us a rule and we'll find a way around it. "Don't tell me what to do!" Contrarians teem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 8:55 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>the overall signal is clear enough: infections per capita are all about population density. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">The population of Seoul South Korea is 9.7 million and has a area of 234 square miles giving a population density of 41 thousand per square mile. New York City has a population of 8.4 million and a area of 469 square miles giving a population density of 18 thousand per square miles. So the population of Seoul is 2.28 times denser than New York City.</font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>The hardest-hit areas are those dependent on mass transit.</i></blockquote><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Seoul's subway system is almost as long as New York's, 220 miles versus 236 miles, and Seoul has a much higher annual ridership, 2837 million versus 1680 million. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><font size="4">South Korea reported its first case of COVID-19 on the same day the US did<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> and 7 weeks ago both countries had the same number of deaths from it, but today 26,358 people in New York City have died of COVID-19 but in all of South Korea (not just Seoul) there have only been 256 deaths. </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">So Spike, your theory just doesn't fit the facts, and when a theory doesn't fit the facts it must be abandoned. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div>
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