Which country has decided to do life as usual and ignore COVID19 and what is the result?

Great question. I was wondering the same. It would be the best way to see if letting the virus run its course without lockdown measures would have been, in fact, the most reasonable solution.

It seems that Belarus didn't impose anything.

No. There is no control group in this experiment.

jhgbfvtg wrote:

I assume that Sentinel Island has not made any changes.

They already had a very strict travel ban in place

We could of done this but needed to cut travel worldwide once COVID popped up in China.

Belarus did the least and yet is in the best shape. Proof.

jhgbfvtg wrote:

Is there a country in the world that decided to do absolutely nothing and treat it like any other contagious disease?

Or did every country basically follow the same recipe?

I know that Sweden has done less dramatic changes, but their streets are still pretty empty I believe.

I assume that Sentinel Island has not made any changes.

Other than them?

Life in Taiwan is still normal, although less tourists as the country banned foreigners from entering.

Bad Wigins wrote:

jhgbfvtg wrote:

I assume that Sentinel Island has not made any changes.

They already had a very strict travel ban in place

The WHO did not feel that travel bans would help.

How many cases in Sentinel Island?

bell a ruze wrote:

Belarus did the least and yet is in the best shape. Proof.

has Belarus done a good job testing and reporting?

Highly doubtful.

So we have no way to evaluate what is going on there.

I think after a year or so scientists will be able to conduct overall mortality studies and make some sort of estimate of CoVID deaths in most nations.

Until then...we should not depend on reported data.

Sweden kept business almost as usual. Nothing happened. Big surprise. Read this and figure out how stupid the rest of world is locking down healthy people

Turkmenistan is going to be an interesting sample.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52186521

innohurry wrote:

Turkmenistan is going to be an interesting sample.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52186521

Interesting quotes

"Markets and offices are being fumigated with smoke from a type of grass called yuzarlik, used in herbal remedies, after President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said burning it would ward off the virus - despite there being no evidence. "

"The World Health Day mass cycle may provide an explanation.

President Berdymukhamedov is the biggest star and the main focus of the annual event.

The image of health is part of his cult of personality. State TV regularly shows him lifting weights in the gym, or cycling on his bike. He is the main driver of "health and happiness" campaigns in which state employees wearing identical uniforms do their morning exercises.

The main message of all these events is that the nation is healthy, and thus happy, thanks to the president."

Arkansas is still letting jesseriley roam the streets

I believe Taipei is pushing through with their National Championships in Athletics Next month or in June.

Belarus? Turkmenistan? Come on people, you have to take the reported numbers from countries such as these with a HEAVY grain of salt. Do some google research about their leaders and governments.

There's a difference between a government not doing anything/much and the people not doing anything. I've been monitoring Sweden and Brazil because both governments have been pretty lax. As of the latest statistics I can find, Sweden has suffered about 79 deaths per million and Brazil 4 per million (US is currently 45/million and the hard hit European countries are between 100 and 300, with Spain the worst at 326/million). So Sweden is being hit harder than the overall US on a deaths per population basis but has had less of a problem than much of Western Europe, for whatever that's worth.

But many Brazilians are angry and fearful and self-quarantining despite no official orders. Same with Ecuador. I don't know about Sweden. And one thing I think is important to take into account is that there have to be some original carriers, so most of Latin America and Africa haven't seen many cases because there just isn't much travel. Most people aren't traveling internationally (especially not to China) and coming back infected. Which is one reason the richer countries have been hit harder, if there was a lot of traffic between China and country X in December, January, February, they were going to get screwed, pretty hard to fault their healthcare system or government or anything else. Plus, of course, the availability of testing, the ability to test, an informed population, etc. differ greatly between developed and developing countries.

Plus these countries often have more worrisome problems on their hands. Like starving to death (about 1/3 of Mexico lives day to day, I'm assuming the overall Latin American statistics are similar if not worse), being robbed or kidnapped, diabetes, plenty of other infections like zika or dysentery, etc. Poverty is quite the killer. And I'd much rather have coronavirus (don't have it as far as I know) than be kidnapped and held for ransom (has happened to me, not fun).

Wuhan China didn’t lock down at first and appears to have attempted a coverup. That didn’t go well.

Really? You trust the numbers more from a country like the US that has huge financial incentive to falsify data.

Please elaborate on said financial incentive.

Runner10287 wrote:

innohurry wrote:

Turkmenistan is going to be an interesting sample.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52186521

Interesting quotes

"Markets and offices are being fumigated with smoke from a type of grass called yuzarlik, used in herbal remedies, after President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said burning it would ward off the virus - despite there being no evidence. "

"The World Health Day mass cycle may provide an explanation.

President Berdymukhamedov is the biggest star and the main focus of the annual event.

The image of health is part of his cult of personality. State TV regularly shows him lifting weights in the gym, or cycling on his bike. He is the main driver of "health and happiness" campaigns in which state employees wearing identical uniforms do their morning exercises.

The main message of all these events is that the nation is healthy, and thus happy, thanks to the president."

That's a straight up North Korea right there... We just don't hear about them since they have no nukes...