Just about every country in the northern hemisphere that is considered a COVID-19 "success story" has 1 or both of these common factors:
1) They don't have high obesity %.
2) No widespread testing regime = no panic+hysteria. Virus has low morbidity. Hospitals fine. Life goes on.

The "mysteries" in Japan and Taiwan pretty much just stopped testing. That's their big secret. Don't test, don't find cases. Very simple. Why don't more people get this? Also, obesity level that is many many times lower than ours.

Japan has 500k tests w 125MM pop. Taiwan 78k. Pop. 25MM

US has conducted > 40 million tests.

China is just lying about its numbers so disregard them.

But every country with a massive testing regime (especially postmortem testing) has seen loads of deaths+cases.

Common sense!

The only countries that have been able to *stop* the spread w a heightened testing regime have initiated brutal lockdowns & massive surveillance states. Think Israel & S Korea. And still, they may find it impossible to *stop* the spread when all is said and done. Not worth it.

The commonly explained reason why these places supposedly quashed virus is that these countries' citizens are just more responsible. That's pseudoscientific speculation. Without Great Depression inducing hard lockdowns, there are no proven measures to stop spread.

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