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Iran is positively crippled by US sanctions affecting every aspect of life

Their traditional allies or even general well wishers won't do business with them because of the US nexus (aid rendered by an American even if the American works for say a Swiss company, or done in USD, or simply wired through some company in Manhattan) and the threat of legal action and insane fines, so we can squash any aid they might receive.

This is the sort of thing that sanctions are absolutely designed for, concentrating costs on people who cannot do anything about it. And the result of all this is that the states that are subject to these sanctions (some for more than 50 years) are totally kowed and beholden to our whim, right? Right....

IMO Iran or any other sanctioned state is not a good measure of a normal nation's response to pandemic

(In response to this post by CrystalCoveHokie)

Posted: 03/15/2020 at 11:00AM

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Very troubling stats from Iran. Of the fatalities: 55% 60+, 30% 40–59.... -- CrystalCoveHokie 03/15/2020 10:08AM

How many of those countries have socialized medicine? -- EDGEMAN 03/15/2020 12:03PM

I don't think Iran is the country the US should compare itself to. -- Hokie360 03/15/2020 11:07AM

Iran is positively crippled by US sanctions affecting every aspect of life -- typed by ben 03/15/2020 11:00AM

Half the sick in ICU's in Italy are under age of 50 -- lchoro 03/15/2020 10:37AM

Curious where you got that stat ** -- HokieForever 03/15/2020 10:55AM

Some of those who don't perish are subject to long term health problems. -- Gadfly 03/15/2020 10:51AM

Like the encephalitis lethargica outbreak of the early 20th century ** -- typed by ben 03/15/2020 11:02AM

Is that 55% of sick 60+ die? or 55% of all deaths are 60+? ** -- `lag 03/15/2020 10:35AM

55% of all deaths are 60+ ** -- CrystalCoveHokie 03/15/2020 10:37AM

I don`t think that -- VTUD 03/15/2020 10:26AM

Yep we don't want to spend the money until its too late -- HokieForever 03/15/2020 10:52AM

Well OK, this is a learning curve, granted we have been warned... -- `lag 03/15/2020 10:58AM

Right but we get warned what every 5 years or so -- HokieForever 03/15/2020 11:16AM

Corporatists see slack capacity (preparedness) as a mine to make hollow ** -- Synaesthesia 03/15/2020 12:00PM

Very few systems of any kind keep a ton of -- Nelsonia Hokie 03/15/2020 6:53PM

I am probably +3σ outside the norm so I would be a bad example of this -- Synaesthesia 03/16/2020 11:34AM

Im watching a range of countries. SK, Japan, Italy, Spain, Aus. ** -- ColoVT82 03/15/2020 10:14AM

Good Point. -- Va AandM 03/15/2020 1:09PM