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It is remarkable how uniformly lethargic the entire political spectrum of the West has been with respect to this crisis until it was too late, while we're seemingly also universally unwilling to build housing or infrastructure across the West, while many Asian countries seem to actually be doing a much better job of all of these things. Instead we sit around and bicker about everything and wait.


Many Asian countries have recent experience with SARS, which led them to get their pandemic game together in advance of this one.


The West had 2+ months extra lead time during which it mostly didn't even try to do anything, across the political spectrum.




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