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We& #39;re underestimating how deeply cultural attitudes shape how many people get sick from Covid.
If you map the incidence of Covid in each Belgian county, for example, the border between French-speaking and Flemish-speaking parts of Belgium is startlingly obvious.
If you map the incidence of Covid in each Belgian county, for example, the border between French-speaking and Flemish-speaking parts of Belgium is startlingly obvious.
Another startling example:
Germany and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland have very similar rates.
France and the French-speaking parts of Switzerland also have very similar rates.
German-speaking and French-speaking parts of Switzerland have very different rates.
Germany and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland have very similar rates.
France and the French-speaking parts of Switzerland also have very similar rates.
German-speaking and French-speaking parts of Switzerland have very different rates.
One more observation:
A lot of people who are very comfortable with cultural explanations in some contexts balk at them in others.
Do you believe that red-state America is worse affected because of a refusal to wear masks? Well, surely that, too, is a kind of cultural attitude?
A lot of people who are very comfortable with cultural explanations in some contexts balk at them in others.
Do you believe that red-state America is worse affected because of a refusal to wear masks? Well, surely that, too, is a kind of cultural attitude?
