Bobcat-Ag said:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/04/992544022/one-of-the-worlds-poorest-countries-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-covid-death-rat
I wonder why they have been able to dodge the worst outcomes from this. Other diseases are crowding it out? Young population? Not overweight? I have no idea, although it is very interesting to see.
I have mentioned this fact on a couple of threads on this board and not much attention has been paid to it. I lived and worked in Haiti for 21 months and have extensive contacts there.
From what I am being told they never really shut down much there and while they were tasked with making the hell outta PPE at the height of the mess, the masses there never really got PPE and masks and such so there wasn't much use in all the lunacy
Haiti basically can't lock down, people really do live hand to mouth there and getting food is a daily thing for many, when there is food. Probably 99.5% of that side of the island is open air, no A/C and people live crammed together in a big way. The manufacturing plants down there are open air and crowded and may the Good Lord help us, the public transportation available there is as nasty and crowded as anything one can imagine.
My personal belief is that immune systems are tougher there for those that survive at birth, the "open airness" of everything, and the fact that they just had to live with it and deal with it helped them get through it much better than other places. But the open air aspect of things has made an impression me in a big way. Our plant in Mex has been open air since this deal started. A bigger one up the road, same demographic of folks, is enclosed and had to be A/C'ed. They had 4.5 cases to our 1 per capita at the height of the deal. There has to be something to that (and they had better and stricter protocols than we did).
