Mindmeld, then explain why CA didn't see the infection numbers that NY did, even though CA was one of the first states to see the coronavirus.
Explain why Korea, with a higher population density than New York, saw lower numbers overall despite being one of the early epicenters of the pandemic.
Even India, with its incredibly overcrowded slums and high poverty rates, isn't seeing nearly the high rates of infection that America saw, despite being closer to China. India's lockdown, by the way, started on March 24, and recently got extended to May 3:
PM Narendra Modi says India will extend coronavirus lockdown until 3 May
I was talking a lot about this with my Indian coworkers in Bangalore. They locked down early relative to their curve, and because of that, their curve didn't slope up as sharply as I expected.
No matter what, this is an incredibly complicated problem, and blanket statements like "lockdowns don't work" are not going to help, especially when potentially hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake. Better to err on the side of caution until we can get a handle on things.
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