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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8549479" data-attributes="member: 19675">Did you read Mannahnin’s link?  They pointed out that African nations had several things that helped them weather this as they have.First, they had a MUCH higher compliance with orders to mask up, improve hygiene (via hand washing, avoiding handshakes), etc. There is no significant pushback on those public health edicts.[ATTACH=full]152046[/ATTACH]The perceived poverty of their healthcare infrastructure worked to their advantage because they have almost NO elder care facilities which concentrate the most vulnerable into close proximity- an ideal situation for viruses like COVID.Another way in which their “substandard” healthcare system actually worked in their favor is that their population demographics skew towards the young.  The typical patients who account for most of the COVID casualties in the developed world are already dead; there’s a smaller percentage of people with comorbidities exposing them to greater risk from C19.  IOW, other healthcare crises have already winnowed out a lot of the more vulnerable.Etc.</blockquote>