Comments by "thomas grabkowski" (@thomasgrabkowski8283) on "South China Morning Post" channel.

  1. Plus extremely stressful and demanding education system for kids and tiny living spaces with the small apartments where people from those countries typically live in, all of which deter having children
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  2. No, Hong Kong is denser in practice as Singapore is much flatter meaning much greater proportion of land(pretty much entire territory) is able to be used for housing than in Hong Kong(where it’s confined to the narrow strips of coastlines and valleys) due to the terrain. I’ve been to both cities. Singapore is denser on paper since it doesn’t contain a lot of mountains with terrain that are unable to be built on unlike Hong Kong
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  3. China-Philippines relations have gotten a lot better since 2016 it seems
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  4. Especially true for East Asian countries like Japan. where working hours for parents are very long, school system is very stressful and living spaces are tiny
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  5. Its not only religion. Humans create conflict over literally everything. Religion is only just 1 thing that humans have conflicts over
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  6.  @KitKat-gn2nn  because situation in new york is so bad, people are too afraid to protest. Tons of new yorkers know someone whos died from covid 19
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  7. As the rest of the world enjoys freedom. Residents of Beijing and Shanghai are locked down. RIP
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  8. Other countries:hey america take this seriously America: Parties and gathers in crowds without social distancing and masks
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  9.  @gdspace5592  Yep, and China and Russia would not want a unified Korea under the ROK(US aligned) under their doorstep
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  10.  @fisherfriendman  that’s not how you drive out an invader, just by driving them into their original borders. It’s like during WW2 if allied forces drove Nazis back into original German borders but, instead, they drove them back than launched an invasion into Germany. Counterattacking is part of war
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  11. Because they are at higher latitude, thus sun angle in east Asia still too low to deliver extreme heat. Meanwhile, south and Southeast Asia are tropical regions in the last weeks of their dry season-hottest time of the year
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  12.  @夜深了-z2o East Asia actually is very hot and moist in summer. Thing is, it is wealthier than south and Southeast Asia, so there’s AC everywhere while in those poorer regions, it’s hot year round, plus many can’t afford AC
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  13. Chinese vaccines are useless. Chile proved it
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  14. Yeah, like the elite can travel, but we can't
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  15. Once you have vaccine. Elimination strategy becomes unsustainable. Global cities following covid zero like Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore would become less economically important to global economy due to being shuttered than cities following vaccination and mitigation like London and New York
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  16.  @Obonye3rd  Ukraine had Soviet nukes. After collapse of Soviet Union, all the nukes were allocated and thus transferred to Russia
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  17. Zero covid strategy causing vaccine complacency
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  18. Its the competitive education system. Everyone wants to get an edge over others
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  19. A big reason why US and Western Europe massively reduced their pollution levels-factories got moved to countries like China, India and Vietnam
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  20. america has 60000 cases everyday and over 1000 deaths and they're doing the same
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  21. china parties after it has eliminated the virus. America, parties during the middle of the pandemic. Look at the parties in los angeles and miami, 2 cities each recording thousands of cases a day
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  22.  @みなみ南-s6e  Other countries have those incidents too
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  23. Only rich Chinese students, not poor ones
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  24. Made in China quality buildings
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  25. Kick out the communists
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  26. it seems that eastern collectivism is working better now, than western individualism. You can see, as the amount of cases in asia falls(more recoveries than new cases), while infection skyrockets in the west, as people insist on going outside, and using crowded trains
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  27. Actually it’s due to AC and fans that humans in Southeast Asia are no longer used to the tropical heat
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  28. They might’ve been upset by the fact that lockdown caused them to lose their jobs and their income and pushed them below poverty line
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  29. Malaysia did well until delta variant came in
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  30. lol, asians going extreme in order to study
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  31. yes, they do tend to use more english words in conversations compared to mainlanders
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  32. hong kong is wasting resources. Why waste hospital rooms and medical equipment for patients with mild symptoms who could just stay at home. Thats what western countries do to reserve hospitals for serious/critical cases. jk, thats why hong kong was able to keep case numbers, transmission rates and death rates low
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  33. Made in China amusement park rides
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  34.  @xinjinzhu2281  Liberal democracies did not impose lockdowns that strict and mandate everyone in an entire city get tested
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  35. After we just heard about floods in New York and London
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  36. Mainland hides their data
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  37.  Arabic Reja  Never
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  38. Lucky I’m not living in China with all the lockdowns and mass testing
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  39. because americans are not disiplined. In china, 6 year olds can keep their mask on for the whole day in public. In america, not even adults are disiplined enough to wear their mask for whole day
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  40. Well people are wearing masks so yeah, there is covid
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  41. Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines-being located close to the ocean thus sea breezes and also lots of rain year round with their tropical rainforest climate, both of which mitigate pollution
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  42.  @Alex-pj8nz  There were mass graves in Wuhan
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  43. Japan's masking culture did not work to stop it
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  44. Can't believe they decided to vote for a dictator's son
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  45. Libya and Iraq never developed nukes and Ukraine’s nukes were soviet nukes which all ended up being allocated and thus transferred to Russia after collapse of USSR
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  46.  @antihypocrisy8978  it actually benefited Chinese economy, lol, and caused their gdp growth to speed up
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  47. without him, the PRC would've probably collapsed in 1989
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  48. Because in China, unlike other countries, even supermarkets are closed during lockdown. Thus they really have to stock up
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  49. China's birth rate is already very low and they're in a similar situation as Japan already demographically, however, unlike Japan, they aren't a wealthy country yet
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  50.  @rowredround7206  Natural immunity does exist
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  51. Western USA. Driest conditions in 1200 years. 4 historic heatwaves since June 1st. That’s what I’ve heard
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  52.  @clementchan496  western countries didn't
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  53. they do, since they can't keep their borders shut forever
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  54. If there was any group of people that deserve to be in Chinese Reeducation camps, its Taliban
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  55. America still had 25 more medals
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  56. @Sarah Wong By that logic, we should combine US and Puerto Rico since Puerto Rico is officially part of the US
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  57.  @Anonymous------  In 2008, they had 12 less. Now they have 1 more. Now who's improving. If you add Hong Kong to China, then China would have same as USA. But by that logic, you have to add Puerto Rico(US territory) to USA and you still end up with 1 more than China+Hong Kong
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  58. Lack of space(too crowded), lack of money(too expensive) and lack of time(long work hours) all contribute to low birth rate
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  59.  Chrome Vaper  Yep, that's what lockdowns did. It forced all the "pleb" businesses to close while the ones owned by elite were all allowed to open
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  60.  @kimduong2332  Well now first hsr equipped country in south east Asia will be Indonesia
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  61. @Angel Jose Mendoza beijing is in the north
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  62. Well it's due to increased tensions with China, Russia and North Korea which are all near Japan. Remember the fact that Japan has hostile neighbours on their doorstep
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  63. Yeah, Siberia has 2 types of people-the natives, who are Asian and the ethnic Russians who migrated from European Russia
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  64. Plot twist. Afghan president is Taliban imposter
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  65. Europe, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, shrinking as well
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  66. Mainland China too
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  67. You’re not welcome in any country now. No country wants foreigners bringing virus into their country
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  68. nz is isolated and is sparsely populated. Hong kong, meanwhile is an international hub and is very densely populated. Hong kong still controlled it better than nz
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  69.  @BSnicks  However hills and mountains increase risk of flash floods and landslide
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  70. hong kong's doesn't need it. Just look at nyc with javits center and london with nhs nightingale. Hong kong's 3rd wave outbreak is tiny compared to nyc and london during their peaks, and both cities barely used their makeshift hospitals
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  71. USA 140,000+ daily cases. 100% open in vast majority of country. America is heavily vaccinated. That means vast majority of cases are mild
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  72. Also has do with the fact that Ukraine previously decided to elect pro-western politicians
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  73. They barely have international flights
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  74. Other countries have way less vaccines
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  75.  @MarkzOng  No, not due to second amendment, due to too many criminals in the US. Criminals don't get their guns legally
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  76. Kuroda Yuto Hong Kong is an international city. Most of its new cases are also imported, rather than through community spread
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  77.  @ehwhat9034  i guess in pe, students have to keep a certain distance apart from each other at all times. Also, activities involving shared objects are banned
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  78.  Holly MacMillan  2019 election *hold my beer
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  79. that's what happens to a first world city state with a 3rd world country right next door
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  80. UK
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  81. Labor costs much cheaper in Indonesia
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  82. Other countries are less vaccinated than America, but since America is a global leader, it may result in domino effect and other countries could as well follow suit and allow vaccinated to stop wearing masks. Just like how when CDC started recommending masks, a domino effect of countries around world imposed mask mandates in their own countries
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  83. Germany has one of oldest populations of any country
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  84. usa did lock down. The virus just surged when restrictions began to ease
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  85. Well problem is, they make it very hard to immigrate
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  86.  @davedave3520  Yes it does lol. Its summer and its so hot behind the mask. Plus CDC said its safe for vaccinated not to wear masks
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  87.  @peanut7260  Vaccines are more than 90% effective, at least Pfizer(what I got) and Moderna. America doesn't have many cases now and vast majority(over 90%) are unvaccinated
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  88.  @GeorgeMartinus  Hong Kong population is only 1/7 that of South Korea. You have to take this into account and use per capita numbers not overall numbers
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  89. china eliminated the virus, no need for social distancing anymore
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  90. firstly, japan barely tests. Secondly, shibuya crossing is very quiet now
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  91. They’re still 1 step behind the west
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  92. Doesn’t help that the birth rates in both city states are extremely low so population growth is almost entirely dependent on immigration
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  93. Communist urban planning that’s why
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  94. Except if this was Brazil, that driver probably would've not lived
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  95. they added 1300 deaths yesterday following international pressure. Thats only the tip of the iceberg. China is hiding their numbers
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  96. Nah, USA
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  97.  @sko1beer  Most of athletics medals haven't been won yet and USA is way better than China at athletics
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  98.  @yunko9369  It's due to Hong Kong's mandatory hospitalization for anyone who tests positive that resulted in hospitals getting overwhelmed
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  99.  @willis8744  they probably making like ¥7.25
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  100. wuhan has over 50k cases, and thats most likely an undercount
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  101. Still a lot lower than western countries
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  102.  Filip Gasic  it doesn't decrease in summer. It just migrates to the southern hemisphere where its winter, and when the northern winter returns, it returns with a vengeance. Same happened to spanish flu
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  103. Difference is that the young men in the US voluntarily signed up to go to war. They were not forced to. In Russia, they are randomly picked and forced to go
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  104. Meanwhile, here in the USA, we’re free
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  105. Quarantine rules only apply to us plebs, not the elite
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  106. Italy has great high speed rail though
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  107. China is very densely populated so there isn’t enough open space often to place courts far from residences
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  108. That’s what highly contagious virus does in an overcrowded city
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  109.  @MarokoJin  Afghanistan is a very poor and underdeveloped, tribal country
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  110. British: We are the best at football riots. Indonesians: Hold my beer
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  111.  @myfoodishere  I’m young and I’m vaccinated. I would rather enjoy the freedom in America than be subject to the perpetual March 2020 in China
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  112.  @myfoodishere  USA GDP per capita is way higher than China, it's much freer and more democratic than China. Plus no internet censorship and reeducation camps. In China you're not allowed to have negative opinion about CCP and social media posts could land you in way worse situation than just losing your jobs. Infrastructure is better in China only because it's way newer. Drugs and guns, as well as gangs, sure America has it worse, it's because unlike China, America doesn't execute thousands per year over those offenses. Education wise, China is hellish for kids with its exams and school work plus kids only allowed to play 1 hour of video games a week mandated by government. Homeless encampments, it's because China has the hukou system which makes it hard for rural residents to move to big cities and officials ruthlessly evict homeless people. Also I've been to rural China and the poverty there is not seen on a scale anywhere in America
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  113. usa*we are on 5 digits
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  114. its spreading very slowly in hong kong, considering how densely populated it is and how close it is to china. Just compare it to nyc. Almost as many deaths now as hong kong's cases
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  115. No it can't. Different country, different context. Continental, well-connected country of 330 million can't learn from isolated island nation of 5 million
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  116.  make a wish  Yeah, basketballx2, water polo, volleyball, baseball, plus golf, more wrestling, boxing and athletics
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  117.  @Sutoyo.Joyoboyo  probably from the loggers
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  118. America needs just 8 hours to hit that number, and we’re open
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  119. And also lack of vaccines
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  120. People are literally sent to the batlefield as a punishment for protesting the mobilization
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  121. Made in China batteries
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  122. If China could make use of its "reeducation camps," it would be when Taliban visits China on a state visit and Chinese security force just rounds them up and dumps them there
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  123. East Germany collapsed before Soviet Union
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  124. he actually told american public to wear masks, but said that he will not wear one
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  125. Malaysia tests at much higher rate. Also case fatality rate is much lower in Malaysia than Indonesia, further demonstrating how Malaysia’s catching greater proportion of cases
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  126. I agree, saying this from the land of the free 🇺🇸
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  127. September is the most active month for tropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere that’s why
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  128.  @southiefkoreafuckoff88  Temperatures over 40 degrees are very common in the interior parts of India especially the desert and semi-arid parts of India due to it’s tropical location. In China, even during mid-summer, temperatures above 40 degrees are rare due to the desert parts being both high in latitude and elevation meaning China’s desert parts are not very hot in summer and frigid in winter, while the southern parts of the country are very humid and wet in the summer cooling temperatures down, though in the south, the heat index levels are well above 40 degrees even if temps are just mid 30s
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  129. It started spreading in Hong Kong later than other places
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  130. and be a impoverished communist country
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  131.  @Anonymous------  Nope, not at all. In 2008 China had 48 golds, USA had 36. In 2021, China had 38, decrease by 10 since 2008, USA had 39, an increase of 3
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  132.  @Anonymous------  In 2016, USA won highest number of medals since the Soviet boycotted games of 1984, 2021 was second highest number since 1984. Both 2012 and 2016 marked highest number of gold medals for any games since 1984 for the US
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  133. Specifically old Asian men. This one involved 67 year old Chinese and Monterey Park involved 72 year old Vietnamese, when historically, it was mostly young, white men
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  134.  @sumonechan8514  China and USA actually has similar vaccination rate now. USA 105 doses/100 people. China 102/100. Effectiveness is another issue, as based on data American vaccines are significantly more effective than Chinese vaccine
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  135. Guns are rare in Hong Kong, so unlike America, almost no chance of suspect being armed with gun
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  136. most western countries were forced to take ccp approach, because they don't have enough testing equipment. Only germany, which manufactures a lot of test kits took south korean approach.
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  137. Cao A3 China figure excludes asymptomatic. USA figure includes asymptomatic
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  138. there is a false narritive of deforestation, when forest coverage has actually been increasing in recent years
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  139. Night begins to Shine it’s because he’s from the mainland
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  140. in nyc, barely anyone wore face masks, unti de blasio and cuomo urged new yorkers use them(later became mandatory). In fact, it was the asian new yorkers who put on masks first, and new yorkers of other races(includes whites, blacks, hispanics) attacked them for doing so. actionkid has footage dating back to march. Until early-mid april, masks were rarely seen outside of chinatown, while inside chinatown, everyone wore them.
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  141. usa has 52 varying strategies-federal government+50 states+washington dc municipality
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  142. The Europeans saying that they wish to experience an earthquake are definitely not Greek or Italian
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  143.  @9666  Like how they didn't do well in taekwondo when they used to be dominant country in that sport since they invented it
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  144. USA meanwhile 140,000+ a day. Party rocking as well and doing fine
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  145.  @iluvmusicqwe  It's because Singapore does not have this mandatory hospitalization policy for all positive cases. Only severe cases are hospitalized, unlike Hong Kong
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  146. Based
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  147.  @tomster4974  they also had experience with mers outbreak in 2015. South korea is so far the only country to have experience with all 3 deadly coronavirus strains
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  148. 黄建平 South Korea started testing after the Shincheonji super spreading event. They tested all the members of the church. They later extended it to the general public, as they fear that many members of the public interacted with the church members and picked up the virus, since it’s a huge church, and South Korea’s very densely populated
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  149. No one has died in your country
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  150. It's different depending on what part of the world. In the lower income countries, birth rates remain extremely high, and populations are exploding, but high and upper middle income countries are struggling with low birth rates and staring down demographic collapse
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  151.  Joost FF  china actually took one of most cautious approaches of any country. They only reopened when there is sustained period of no community spread. US criteria for example is 14 days of sustained decreased transmission and a lot of states opened up when infections are still on the rise
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  152.  @pptskills  And in fact barely any track has been laid in California
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  153. Well that's probably why many still believe that trying to make a living out of being athlete is almost impossible
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  154. Nope, happens in USA to suspects of any race, and cops of any race. Many white drivers are killed that way too. Non-white American cops would've emptied their magazine into that car too
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  155. Just to impress their CCP overlords
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  156. World War Z
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  157. Looks like Thailand is the Asian Florida
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  158.  @priscillajimenez27  Its called federalism, the system in USA, as well as Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, Germany, Australia
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  159. The countries that did bad at containing pandemic like US, UK, Israel are best at vaccination, while countries with few covid cases are slowest at rolling out vaccine
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  160. Yeah like first time I saw it being paved over with a mat rather than just draw lines in concrete
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  161. I do that too when I cross a bridge like that
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  162.  @cillamoke  No
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  163.  @fluffypuppy4568  America is a lot richer. America's life expectancy is below what its GDP per capita predicts while China is above
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  164.  @fluffypuppy4568  It is, but you have to take economic development into account. Wealth is strongly correlated with life expectancy and China is much poorer and less developed than America, so naturally, China would have lower life expectancy than USA
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  165.  @rishavbarnwal7155  exactly
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  166. soon usa will pass 4m cases
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  167. Made in China quality bridges
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  168. @1등급 it wasn't until mayors across south korea attempted to press criminal charges against the cult that they released the names of their members. South korean government acted quickly and tested all the members in a period of days(the few days in late february of 800+ new cases per day, were the days the shinsheonji members were being tested)
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  169.  @sydneyliu4825  I believe they're southern hemisphere so it's winter there rn
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  170.  jerry peter wallad  no really. China, south korea, japan, taiwan, hong kong, singapore all have old populations. Other asian countries like vietnam are also aging rapidly
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  171. Philippines is still above replacement though
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  172. usa did nucleic acid test on 60 million citizens
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  173.  @文明觀蛙嚴禁餵食  usa did 70 million tests, 21% of population. China 90 million 6.2% of population
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  174. The age profile of people who are not vaccinated. In the other places you mentioned, unvaccinated skew towards younger, low risk groups. In HK they skew towards older, high risk groups
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  175. Government do intervene, without kids to replace the new generation, tax base will shrink and pension burden will get heavier, all of which affects how government function
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  176. In the US only natural born citizens can run for president, but other offices can be held by naturalized citizens
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  177.  @VoltzV1  barely anyone in Indonesia is vaccinated so doesn’t apply there
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  178. Or that it’s a shadow
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  179. What about America 100+ despite having 1/4 population every Olympics
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  180. America has really high vaccination rate. In America, according to cdc, vaccinated people don’t need masks
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  181. Weird flex but ok
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  182. Other developed countries have much lower violent crime, so much less lethal force is needed. US police often have to face suspect with guns. Other developed countries rarely even have to face suspects with knives. Also, being murdered on duty as a cop is much higher chance in US than other developed countries, even with heavily armed, trigger happy cops
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  183.  @hu42  however unlike in western countries, based on reports, most Singaporeans have volunteered to keep their masks on
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  184.  @iknowyoubetter2028  it also infected around 2 billion people that year
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  185. Sweden is near the top in those charts as well, but complete opposite covid strategy. The highly developed countries, all near the top in those charts, have taken highly divergent covid strategies
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  186. they're all in east asia
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  187. made in china quality
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  188.  @havanascp9602  europe has bridges that are hundreds of years old. Still holds very sturdy, even during winds stronger than this. 20+ years is no excuse.
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  189. 80000 cases 75000 recovered 4500 dead approx
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  190. It’s because there was 0 cases thus people got complacent and didn’t get vaccinated
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  191. Rest of world is way behind US in vaccinations
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  192. What about Japan
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  193. They’re the ones most likely to lose their jobs over lockdowns, of course they’re frustrated
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  194. Yep, and there's a video documented how this is how Russian leaders have always treated their people, from the tsars to the dictators that succeeded the tsars
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  195. They should switch to western system which have capacity to handle much more cases. No symptom and mild symptoms=At home. Serious in hospital
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  196.  @greenbean3289  thats why new york has been hit harder than any other american city and its not even close. It has 10 times more cases than the second worst affected american city
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  197.  @markhenley3097  and also when the virus has spread so far and wide in the usa. 10% of tests in usa are coming back positive
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  198. australia and new zealand actually did lock down again after second wave happened
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  199. Many have stopped requiring them for vaccinated, like Walmart, Costco, etc
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  200. actually, the whole of china went under lockdown too. Public transport, schools, and non-essential services all over the country were ordered to be shut. Only one person per household can leave every 2 days to buy groceries. China's policy was hard lockdown for hubei, soft lockdown for rest of the country.
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  201.  @greenbean3289  yeah, remember back in january and february, china was locking down cities, and western governments mocked it as a little flu and nothing to worry about. Western countries were hit hard, and now they blame china, for not warning them.
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  202.  Robby C  Happens to people of every race
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  203. Vaccines+immunity from previous infections. Europe has significantly higher vaccination rate+much more immunity from previous infections before delta hit than Malaysia
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  204. south korea, taiwan, hong kong, vietnam, thailand, australia, czech republic won as well
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  205. It’s located in the tropics, close to the equator, that’s why
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  206. Next day, the infected person's gonna get shot with anti-aircraft gun and boom, cases back to 0
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  207. Humidity level is much lower in north China than in Hong Kong
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  208. no one at that time knew that this would evolve into a pandemic that swept the world, infecting tens of millions and killing hundreds of thousands
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  209. In the US we don't have to quarantine when we return from abroad. Only pre-departure negative test
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  210. Only in China are people not even allowed to go to supermarket and buy food on their own
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  211. It’s based in Hong Kong which has both Chinese and western influence
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  212. That’s the advice given in America. I’ve stopped wearing masks in most instances after I’ve been vaccinated
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  213.  @davedave3520  Barely anyone in those countries are vaccinated, unlike America. Thats the key point. I would still continue wearing a mask if I'm not vaccinated, even when its uncomfortably hot, just like last year
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  214.  @marktn9851  And due to HK having so little flat land
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  215. Meanwhile North Korea accuses them of sending the virus over with balloons
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  216. Vast majority of cases are mild
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  217. It prevents both
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  218. vaccines are not 100% effective
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  219. chinese are very cautious, thats why
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  220. La 4000 cases a day for a single city
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  221. USA, Russia and India: how about both
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  222. A. L. Japan has a similar amount of confirmed cases as South Korea, but in reality, Japan probably has far more, since they’re polar opposites when it comes to testing
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  223. They directed all their country’s electricity to this new district on their opening day lol
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  224. UK police don't even have sidearms
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  225.  @rowredround7206  Top of Australia is actually tropical not desert
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  226.  @AlphineWolf  canada got hit hard by sars and this time too, with more than 40k cases. Unlike hk, tw and sk, they didn't learn from that past experience
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  227.  @AlphineWolf  well only toronto was hit hard that time, because a woman from hong kong, the sars epicenter, brought it to toronto. This time, all the country is affected, with montreal being the hardest hit cities
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  228.  @AlphineWolf  bc and ontario did have experience yes. Them being hit by sars is because they have a large population of hong kongers, and hong kong was the epicenter that time
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  229. Taliban is lying. Its actions, not words that count
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  230.  @aya8361  Chile is extremely highly vaccinated. However they used the Chinese vaccines. Cases are exploding there
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  231.  @jasonqian  there may be historical reasons too. During the Chinese Civil War, the north generally supported the CCP, while the south supported KMT. CCP may have also wanted to punish the south for fighting against him during the war, thus north provinces got huge state funds during that time and south provinces got milked dry for example
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  232. Because unlike Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan doesn't have oil
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  233.  @MasterGalaOfficial  No you don't have to show documents, at least not now, its an honor system
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  234.  @QWERTY-gp8fd  in the 1990s, Taliban ran country and they did participate in global affairs
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  235. Well America's vaccination rate is much higher than India so its much safer for us to lower our guard
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  236.  @davedave3520  Yes it does. Vaccines are 95% effective. If its not effective why get vaccinated in the first place. Its also the reason why vaccinated people can ditch covid precautions according to cdc
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  237.  @davedave3520  We have already, no problems yet
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  238. No testing
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  239. in hong kong, almost everyone wears them, even when the outbreaks in many american cities including nyc, boston, atlanta, seattle, new orleans, chicago and la have become more severe than hong kong
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  240. It's not working in Jilin
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  241.  @alan85  A part of that is culture. Chinese have a culture of going to the doctor even if they have just the sniffles which contributes to the problem of long wait time
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  242. @1등급 japan has a much larger population(almost 3 times higher than sk)
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  243. Because India rarely wins gold medals
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