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This is how seriously a green zone like South Korea is taking the coronavirus.

Have a feeling that green zone / red zone will be the new developed world / developing world.
When you learn about what other countries are doing to control COVID-19, you realize at a certain point that the US is just behind.

Plenty of smart Americans but the country is behind, in a way that’s not (yet) captured by GDP but is by videos like this:
It’s possible to quantify 100X differences in physical-world productivity between the US & China, for example.

Forget about whether you like China, this is the kind of gap that hampered US ability to quickly physically innovate in response to corona.
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