05-01-2020, 04:01 PM
(05-01-2020, 07:44 AM)David Horn Wrote: That looks like a success story to me.
It is. It's just that the facts aren't consistent with the explanation of why it's a success story that you linked to. For example, high levels of testing can't be why South Korea was successful, because when you account for the fact that it takes a couple weeks for actual new cases to be detectable in test results, South Korea didn't get to high levels of testing until after their problem was already fixed.
Here's a correct explanation of why South Korea is a success story:
https://www.quora.com/What-did-South-Kor...Warren-Dew
You can tell it's correct because I used it to make predictions of the course of Covid-19 in the US, and those predictions turned out to be correct.
The biggest thing South Korea "did right" was to close their schools - for other reasons, of course - before they realized Covid-19 was a big enough problem to act on. The next biggest was voluntary mask use by the population.