If you are curious, first hand account on how Smart Country Korea is handling the pandemic

[Pluvious]

Certainly not gonna be anything close to how we'll eventually deal with it...

This is really quite astonishing in its scope and contrast:

Link to tweet

[intrepidity]

1. So that's what it looks like to live in a country that values its people

Huh. Probably has to do with education level of population?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. You also have to take into account that

South Korea has a fraction of the land mass of the U.S. and about 1/6 our population. Plus, a stunning lack of diversity of any kind. And I'm going to guess they don't have a long history of "rugged individualism".

All those things make it a fuck of a lot easier to do what South Korea did.

You can't compare the two countries. It's like comparing kumquats and bacteria that live on the underseas vents of volcanoes. Or some similar disparate things.

[Blue_true]

4. Germany or Australia would be better comparisons.

The Leader in both handled this far, far better than Trump.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. compare population density of Seul with NYC or LA

https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/seoul-population/

Interestingly, Seoul's population density is almost twice that of New York City, four times higher than Los Angeles and eight times higher than the density of Rome.

It's not "comparing kumquats and bacteria that live on the underseas vents of volcanoes"; it's comparing populations. Seul's population has twice the chance of spreading the virus as NYC, by population density alone. An intelligent response by South Korea more than negated that influence.

[Steelrolled]

3. Wonder how much the epidemic is politicized in Korea.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. an earlier interview with South Korea's expert ...

Interview with Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea