RambleOnNW wrote:
A lot of this discussion has been folks trying to give cover for an ineffective preparation and response to what should have been treated as a major invasion on the level of the WWII Battle of the Bulge. Take a look at how South Korea responded to see how it should have been done:
S. Korea CV Response
If you scale up the S. Korea level of CV results to the US population level you get the following stats(S. Korea Population 51.2 million, US: : 327 million):
S. Korea total cases: 10,423 deaths: 204
S. Korea scaled to US population size(6.38X): 66,487 deaths: 1301
US total cases: 451,491 deaths: 15,938
If we all had billions of N95 masks then yes, more of the country could be opened. But lack thereof is a part of the inept federal response.
No doubt their access to masks helped their situation. Another possible factor is:
wikipedia wrote:
Obesity has been consistently among the world's lowest - only 3% of the population were obese, which was the second lowest in the OECD, compared to over 30% in the U.S. or 23% in the UK. As a result, mortality from cardiovascular disease was the fourth lowest in the OECD.
