Originally Posted by
dr dre
Here's some more data. Compared with the infection rates of East Asian nations that I posted in post #469 there's one outlier, Singapore. That nation had traditionally had a policy of discouraging their citizens from wearing masks. It's infection rate is currently 8000 per 1mil, putting it into the territory of Western nations. They have since reversed their policy on mask wearing in April, and have suffered a decline in infections since.
We really should be looking to our fellow members of the Asia-Pacific and fighting the pandemic as they successfully have, not how it's being fought in countries we traditionally considered as more similar (cough USA/UK cough).
Singapore had enviable rates even within Asia - Expat workers were and are still the downfall in "infection" rates. Death rates that are very close to the top and exceptionally low even within Asia.
And personally I trust Singapore's reported cases of infection and death rates more than some other Asian numbers reports