On 22 Mar 2020 at 09:07a, Mike Powell pondered and said...
 
 MP>  > On 21 Mar 2020 at 06:14p, Mike Powell pondered and said...
 MP>  >  
 MP>  >  MP> South Korea is where they are today due to US foreign aid and mili
 MP>  >  MP> assistance.  No US foreign aid = one Korea lead by the North.
 MP> 
 MP>  > What does that have to do with how they've
 MP>  > handled the COVID-19 pandemic?
 MP> 
 MP> If you have money coming in to prop up other areas of your economy,
 MP> national defense, etc., it is a lot easier to spend money on other
 MP> things.  I am inferring that, without these things, there would only be
 MP> one Korea and that would be a Korea controlled by the leadership of the
 MP> North.  North Korea is not anyone's standard of good medical practice.

That's quite an inference.

 MP> Please explain why you feel that foreign aid, and not being united under
 MP> the regime of the North, has nothing to do with their ability to handle
 MP> what is going on.

Well, I never said nor implied that.  That's your interpretation.

But you seem to be implying that their receipt of US aid
and military cooperation is somehow a factor in their
government's response to COVID-19; that doesn't seem to
be the case.

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