Taiwan: 0.5 per million (11 deaths)
China: 3 per million (4,636 deaths)
Singapore: 5 per million (30 deaths)
Hong Kong: 28 per million (209 deaths)
South Korea: 35 per million (1,802 deaths)
Japan: 77 per million (9,671 deaths)
US: 1,800 per million (582,401 deaths; +800 daily)
China: 3 per million (4,636 deaths)
Singapore: 5 per million (30 deaths)
Hong Kong: 28 per million (209 deaths)
South Korea: 35 per million (1,802 deaths)
Japan: 77 per million (9,671 deaths)
US: 1,800 per million (582,401 deaths; +800 daily)
New Zealand: 5 per million (26 deaths)
Australia: 35 per million (910 deaths)
UK: 1,900 per million (127,307 deaths)
Australia: 35 per million (910 deaths)
UK: 1,900 per million (127,307 deaths)
Nations that successfully suppressed outbreak include both small and large, both island and non-island, and both autocratic and democratic.
Sole relevant parameter for success or failure is whether government took prompt resolute action (success) or whether it did not (failure).
Sole relevant parameter for success or failure is whether government took prompt resolute action (success) or whether it did not (failure).
Fast, strong, and sustained response by government equals success.
Slow, weak, and unsustained response by government equals failure.
Every death above 100 per million in a developed nation is the direct result of governmental negligence.
Slow, weak, and unsustained response by government equals failure.
Every death above 100 per million in a developed nation is the direct result of governmental negligence.
Accountability--Nuremberg-Trials-style accountability--will be required for the tens to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, and economic ruin, in nations like US and UK, where governments deliberately chose negligence over response.
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