Quoted from dirkdiggler:Anyone else find it strange that Russia hasn't really said anything about the caronavirus? Is it because they keep their people inside their borders and no one travels there?
I've been reading about the tuberculosis BCG vaccine and its connection to coronavirus. Long story short if you have had the BCG vaccine I would feel a lot better about surviving corona. The BCG was never mandatory in the USA and there are different strains of the vaccine but it could be a contributing factor as to why Japan, Russia/former Soviet states(even former east and west Germany have markedly different rates), and many others have not been hit as hard as USA, Italy, Spain et al. Nothing is proven, I'm not a doctor or scientist, but it is being looked into by actual smart people.
Edited for some links.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/101057/tb-vaccine-considered-in-fight-against-coronavirus/
https://www.abundance.org/crucial-research-assessing-efficacy-in-preventing-covid-19-of-widely-used-vaccine-for-tuberculosis-called-bcg/
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3912152&userid=78326&perpage=40&pagenumber=16#post502927060
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3912152&pagenumber=1408#post503394706