Originally Posted by
dr dre
Countries in east Asia where mask wearing is prominent and cases per 1 million people:
Vietnam 4
Taiwan 19
Thailand 46
China 58
Japan 191
Hong Kong 237
South Korea 268
Malaysia 271
Now some selected non East Asian countries:
Germany 2417
Italy 4039
UK 4331
Russia 5245
Israel 5367
Sweden 7650
USA 11577
Chile 17195
So whatever East Asian countries are doing its undeniable they’re doing better than comparable first world Western countries. And part of this must be related to greater acceptance of mask wearing, which was prominent.
Dr Dre, you can’t use those statistics to say the reason
must be related to mask wearing. It may or it may not be the case.
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple of reasons that might explain why Asia is fairing better. First off, it’s known that sunlight affects the lifespan of the virus, most of Asia is in the tropics, maybe that’s why? Or the fact that most of the Asian countries have a much younger population than the western countries. The point is, we don’t really know why Asia in general is fairing pretty well. It’s probably a combination of things which together have helped out, and may or may not include masks.