samrong01 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 7:00 am

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 7:57 pm

samrong01 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 30, 2021 7:07 pm There is a good reason why Cambodia never features in lists of countries with low incidence of the virus. It clearly demonstrates that lockdowns, masks, and all the ridiculous measures taken by western governments have no effect whatsoever. This does not sit well with governments whose objective is to use the pandemic to increase their power and control over their people, so they pretend Cambodia does not exist. By doing nothing other than destroying the tourist industry and children's education (for no good reason), Cambodia is actually number 1 in the world for avoiding the virus with Laos number 2. It is ridiculous to say that New Zealand is best when they have had some deaths in a much smaller population while Cambodia has had none. New Zealand is best only of the countries that believe that draconian measures are the answer.

The study by the University of Grenoble clearly established that there is no relationship between government measures and the progress of the virus and Cambodia is proof of the truth of that.

Can you give us a link to that study? I googled the above bolded but couldn't readily see anything.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 04339/full
Above is a link to the full results of the study including onwards links to appendices.

Regarding government's actions (i.e., containment and stringency index), no association was found with the outcome, suggesting that the other studied factors were more important in the Covid-19 mortality than political measures implemented to fight the virus, except for the economic support index.

Covid-19 has prompted a wide range of responses from governments around the world, yet the contagion and mortality curves are very homologous among countries (33). This is reinforced by our findings regarding the lack of any association with the government's actions taken during the pandemic. In that sense, the determining demographic, health, development, and environment factors seem much more important to anticipate the lethal consequences of the Covid-19 than government's actions, especially when such actions are led by political goals more than by sanitary ones.

The situation in islands such as Taiwan, New Zealand, or Iceland, that quickly imposed restrictive measures on air transport, shows that the virus has not become endemic in these first 8 months. After a rapid propagation phase, only the re-importation of subjects contaminated outside the island provoked new local cases.