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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jon" data-source="post: 879825" data-attributes="member: 15113">Non-football, but FWIW I live and work in Dhaka, Bangladesh, now and have lived and worked in various 3rd world countries for most of my career.  The US has fabulously good health care.  The best care in the world is available in America (and in a few other places), and the level of immediate and urgent care in the US is absolutely unmatched anywhere (though parts of western Europe and Japan are very close).The US insurance and payments system, on the other hand, is a disgrace.  Years ago I was involved in selling paper products to hospitals and learned quite a lesson in gov't regulation.  It is 1000 times worse now, and the resulting inefficiencies....Anyway, containment of a virus is about personal behavior, and there are loads of people everywhere who see little to no risk and act accordingly.  This does not appear to confined to any one society, though poor people the world over appear to be taking more risks than most due the necessity of getting out and earning a buck.</blockquote>

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