gj otaku ffs

hey look if I could be a hikikomori you best believe I would, but I don't have rich ceo parents 😭😭😭

A few hundred million infections will tend to do this

thought for sure by know you'd be ceo status driving around in a lambo with all the doge coins you traded old anime figurines for

What's your conclusion? That the whole world should have followed China's lead and pursue an eradication strategy with Wuhan-style gigalockdowns?
... lockdowns which would have had to come with a suspension of almost all civil liberties, a dystopian digital surveillance and millions of poor people in third world countries starving to death?

Imho, this ship had already sailed by early- to mid-February. And at that point in time, the people in Europe and the Americas would not have went along if their governments had tried to impose Wuhan-style lockdowns.

South Korea style contract tracing, masking, and testing.

There was so much more we could have done that still qualifies as basic handling of the virus. Instead the entire vwest dragged its feet.

Sure, South Korea did really well and we would have been well-advised to copy a page or two out of their playbook. I nonetheless don't think that their approach could have worked in the West.

First, they are a de facto island where entry into the country can very easily be controlled and forced into quarantine. Second, the degree of digital tracing of citizens by government bodies in SK would have been a total nonstarter. Third, the country has a very homogeneous and compliant people with high levels of trust in their government. Something that can't really be said about any Western country. Fourth, SK has very dry and sunny winters which seems to help against coronaviruses in general.

80 year olds died six years early

we have to burn the constitution

lol burn the constitution...... good one.