wunderforce

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   by wunderforce 5y ago

   I think there is some evidence that lockdowns at least offered partial mitigation, but my memory is fuzzy on that. They certainly didn't stop transmission but they may have blunted the rate a bit. I also looked into the mask literatur
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   by wunderforce 5y ago

   A lot of your observations make sense. My speculation would be: A) Japan has a more temperate climate B) Japan is an island and was pretty strict about locking down travel and forcing everyone entering the country to quarantine for 14 days
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   by wunderforce 5y ago

   Africa: Hot climate, poor testing, data likely not accurate Australia: Island, hot climate, pretty heavy travel/quarantine restrictions New Zealand: Island, rural with very dispersed population, heavily restricted international travel
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   by wunderforce 5y ago

   It's out there. It's also not hard to take raw data and divide by the population size which is publicly available for all counties and cities.
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   by wunderforce 5y ago

   At least one study was done in Florida comparing counties that had mask mandates vs those that did not. The general conclusion matches your observation, mask mandates did not appear to have a material effect on any covid related metrics (i