“One Nation-Two Systems,” as the Communist Party always says - until an epidemic starts, anyway.
Singapore, which is 1,600 miles from Hong Kong, actually has more corona infections than Hong Kong.
Outside China and Hong Kong, there are about 625 cases, less than 1% of the total, which seems like good news to me, since the infection started more than 2 months ago.
Also, the death toll outside China looks substantially lower.
In China, the death toll has held steady around 2.5% of infections since they began posting data in early January.
Outside China, the death toll has been consistently under 1%.
It’s early. We are several weeks away from China and even a couple of weeks behind Singapore. This is a slow moving virus. Onset to death can take as long as a month, ad our first case in the US was Jan 21. so, we will know something one way or another in the next few weeks.
It is way to early to make any assumptions that it won’t be bad outside China.