Originally Posted by
usedtobeimportant
Your conflating laws with values.
Could you imagine the protests that would have happened if the USA has had a lockdown like Spain (no going out even for exercise) for seven weeks?
Just look upstream in this topic for an example of some behavior. A few people have mentioned guns if they were asked to quarantine in a hotel rather than their own homes. Yet in Australia and New Zealand that's exactly what people were expected to do and did. No protests, guns etc because there value system is more towards common good.
You misuse the word "conflate". I was surprised that the Japanese value of group good was not more strongly reflected in its laws relating to its ability to control the movement of people to contain a virus. No lockdown here, yet a low number of deaths like in AUS and NZ. You are over generalizing on the topic of individualism vs. the common good and what measures you think have caused the elimination of the virus in certain countries to support your position.