I think the Chinese reaction to the disease triggered the shutdowns and much of the official hysteria The Chinese reacted as though they knew they had released a Bubonic level plague from their lab and their frantic and really heavy handed approach scared the pols and bureaucrats in this country causing them all to react in a panic. The other countries that reacted first did it the rational way and shut their borders as soon as they heard, Vietnam probably first. Vietnam apparently had no CCPV until the last ten days. Japan and South Korea got a handle on it early and the ROK probably would have stayed at a uniform low level of infection but for one crazy cultist. Sweden did not panic and had a relatively high death count in one episode of the disease and no is pretty much free of it because it affected many more early and the vaunted “herd immunity” set in. The countries that tried their hardest to keep the disease from spreading by shutting down their economies don’t get to HI for a long time so they have the virus around and welling up again here and there until sometime in another year or two we reach HI. We, by maintaining the life of the plague cycle, are forcing countries like Vietnam to stay closed to keep the carriers out. If everyone had acted like Vietnam or Sweden this thing would be nearing an end of its run and the world economy, and ours, would not have taken such a wallop.
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