You may have tried to override it. It takes less work then most people are used to. By override I don't mean beat the shit out of , it takes that just fine. I meant put more effort into it then what is required.
Maybe your hanging in the wrong rural areas. But I will agree with more health probs as lots of rural areas tend to have older populations. Enjoy the fishing thou.
I think they will fare better then most. They closed their land border with China shortly after Wuhan broke out. It's also a huge country with less then 1/2 the population of the US.
And they got to see the rest of the world as a practice zone.
That being said Im sure their HC is decades behind most 3rd world countries.