unome
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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer I have ridden the Subway plenty. Ever ridden the Subway in Mexico City? I bet it is like Asia pre-virus. Packed in with throngs of humanity all around. I can see why Asian countries had large mask usage before the pandemic because there is/was a lot of people packed into small spaces. Japan is a perfect example. They have something like 10x the population density of the US, but a fraction of cases by percentage. Because they do shit the right way, while we continue with half measures because we've become such a "what about me?" country that people immediately start crying about their rights and freedoms if they're told they can't do something. Japan is crazy. Well, OK, I have been to Tokyo, but that was packed with people. The Asian countries and culture were in every way better equipped to handle this pandemic. Most everyone there already had their own personal PPEs, especially in the big cities. How many Americans here did outside of those in the medical field? Almost no one. We can debate whether communitarian or individualistic cultures are better, generally, but when it comes to a pandemic, it is communitarian ones. Hands down. Trump did a poor job, but some Americans would never have responded well to mask mandates. Heck, I would be against them as well if masks did not help protect other people. If they only protected the wearer, I would say: hey, your choice. Singapore and China are the polar opposites. China will not let its people say or type a long list of things. Heck, if half of the posters here talked about Xi Jinping they way they talk about Trump: lost jobs and possible imprisonment. Yikes! China is a great place and I like the people there, but their government sucks ***. https://share.america.gov/in-china-you-cant-say-these-words/ In some ways, we are paying the price for being a free and individualistic society, but I hope that does not change too much because of this. Big government and centralized power will eventually take away rights from its citizens and it is hard to get those rights back.
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