South Korea tops OECD’s growth rate forecast for 2020

Yes they are generally healthier and have better healthcare but the reason they are successful here has little to do with that.  They tested and traced early, and wear masks.  It’s easier to control the virus if a few million don’t get it in the first place, you catch it early and everyone wears masks even before   Covid showed up which slowed the spread significantly.

Co-morbidity thing is just being overblown and taken out of context.  Most Americans have at least one to begin with, so if course very few deaths will be in people with zero.

I bet they smoke and drink at a higher clip than us, but no doubt we're much fatter. 

People are way too nice about your constant spreading of corona misinformation.

Well Japan was already in a recession prior to the pandemic and Germany's economy is heavily export based. You are right its not easy to do 1:1 comparisons blindly, economies should be measured against peer economies with similar underlying components. So did taxing a more lax approach approve Sweden's economy when compared to Norway's? 

I think that's a fair point, however, from my understanding many of the EU countries have higher rates of unionization and broader social safety nets. I believe this would result in less permanent job loss and fewer people falling off a financial cliff. This suggests that once the virus is truly subdued, these countries might have a faster rate of recovery than US? Please, anyone, feel free to correct me if I am completely off base.

People might also begin to question the East Asian correlation and the importance of coronavirus exposure as it relates to developing a more robust cell-mediated immune response. Kinda crazy how there isn't an East Asian country who didn't "handle this extremely well", while the west and most of the rest of the world hurtled into a disaster. 

SK was a lot more prepared since they had to deal with a MERS in 2015, so everything was in place for a rapid response to COVID. I'm the US will be more prepared if another type of virus attacks us in 2025 after the COVID virus has run its course.

There's one big fat Korean north of the DMZ.

I know this is hard for you to believe but many of us aren't concerned with the president and this has more to do with other factors like at some point quality of life has high value. Doesn't make anyone right/wrong just means they want to live a certain way in their one and only life. Not apologizing for it either cause it's NOT only about looking at death numbers (esp when record keeping is so shoddy and inconsistent from country to country) but instead it's about numerous factors when deciding who handled things better.

Foe example: One could go as far to say look how much better health wise a certain person handled their life just by looking at who lived longer life but might want to factor in all the different experiences one had in his life also along with health. I would rather live to say 75 while experiencing good foods, drinks, taking risks that add stress over someone who never leaves the house and makes it to 90. 

I have a friend now 50 years old who's lived with his parents his entire life who probably has much more money than most people I know BUT he's also doesn't have close to the memories/experiences with loving, laughing, risk taking, playing, etc... He still lives like he's 15 years old doing nothing most here would deem risky, fun, exciting and even sinful haha. Was/is he better with say money because he has more money than most? Not how you measure things. Life isn't that simple. Much more goes into answers just like with how a country has handled the CV. WAY more to life and CV response than simple death numbers. 

4% of the world population 

24% of the world cases 

22% of the world deaths 

Crazy!

This take is incredibly ignorant 

Alternatively, they already had a high level of immunity due to increased exposure to similar viruses (namely SARS1)

What part did they politicize?  

SK may not have similar race issues to politicize but they have plenty other issues to politicize. They just are better informed than the US general public about the virus and science in general.

Good for your digestive system.  I have some in the fridge and have it with Ramen for lunch.

Bet U.S has less naive people than probably any country in world, who understand money controls a lot of decisions and that the world is much more complex than just believing what you were told by a government official.

I have said this many times before but look how awful the FDA is with responses about a substance like kratom and the lies pushed by them cause how much it's cut into big Pharma profits and FDA wanting to protect their products. Opiates are way worse for you than kratom but FDA floods us with false information/studies about kratom despite it being much more safety. Look into it's unbelievable.

Would have never believed this 10 years ago but have witnessed this with kratom and the demonizing by FDA with outright lies to protect big pharma, we've seen it with marijuana/mushrooms and LSD being labeled scheduled 1 drugs (blatant lies), seen it testosterone therapy despite thousands of positive studies on it, seen with food pyramid being pushed despite most nutrtionists know it's awful way to eat compared to others, etc...

The point is there's lots of propaganda out there cause of money and those in this country aren't nearly as naive as many others cause of the freedoms we've had in life to explore much of what we have been told and so we don't just believing everything is as they say.