I am quite anxious about coronavirus, hence try to look for positive stats. Have only just realised that Singapore has a ifr of 0.1% based on 23 deaths out of 32,000 confirmed cases. They have an average aged population almost the same as UK.
No they don't. Not at all.
www.populationpyramid.net/singapore/2019/
www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2019/
They have a larger working age population, a much, much smaller population of very old, and a smaller working age population.
They import young people from neighbouring countries. These people have very low risk from covid-19, because they are young and probably in good health.
Also compared to the pisspoor dogshit testing strategy in the UK, they knew exactly who was infected, who they met, where they had been, how old they are, etc.
co.vid19.sg/singapore/
Their infections are averaging age 35. Almost no-one is over 60.
Singapore is the most law-abiding country in the world. The UK is a crime-ridden cesspit in comparison. They don't fuck about. People breaking quarantine regulations have been deported, fined thousands of dollars, etc.
Of the 547 cases reported yesterday, 544 were migrant workers in dormitories.
You can bet they test every last person there.
UK?
Millions of people infected. Most asymptomatic. Get into care homes. Kill tens of thousands of people.
If Singapore had an infection in an old people's home they would go there and test all the workers and residents. And then staff would be quarantined, and if they didn't follow the rules, they'd deport them permanently.
It's normal in Asia to employ young migrant workers (unskilled labour). They tend to go back to their home countries relatively young. They are very very unlikely to die of covid-19 because of age.
There isn't really any way in Singapore for uncontrolled infection to occur because it's so famous as the land of rules. The government does what it thinks is best for the people. And the people can like it or shut up.
The UK is showing similar infection rates across the population. This is indicative of a governmental machinery that is incapable of responding to such a threat in timely fashion, and it just randomly infected millions, and then killed some % of the vulnerable groups.
Singapore is showing 90% male infections, because they are only infecting migrant workers. Probably there would be three and fifty billion articles in The Guardian about how terrible this is and the BBC would go down and report endlessly, while ignoring the old people dying. But that would be rather stupid, because Singapore has 23 deaths, and the UK has 2000 times that number.
There is an explanation here
www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3081772/coronavirus-why-so-few-deaths-among-singapores-14000