“China —
Cons: very poor public hygiene. No culture of hand-washing. Public defecation. Open wildlife game markets with butchering in stalls. Lots of air pollution. Lots of male smokers. Government covering up the epidemic and providing bad data or maybe intentional misinformation.
Pros (in a way): draconian measures to quarantine people (unfortunately, after the horse left the barn).”
Yes. And note that in the second most infected province the death rate is about ten-fold less than in Hubei. This is in Guangdong, the most advanced and modern region in the PRC.
Thanks for the info about Guangdong. I hadn’t thought about that. I’m surprised at how concentrated the cases are in Hubei and how they rapidly diminish in adjacent provinces.