months this summer it was almost possible for Europeans to believe that life had returned to normal. Parisian museums and Barcelona’s cafés were open, if less crowded. Germans, Dutch and Danes jetted off to holidays on Mediterranean beaches. In August and September, as children across the continent returned to school, covid-19 infections began to rise. Yet governments, worried about a backlash, chose not to reintroduce harsh social-distancing measures.
Spain is among the hardest-hit countries. That is partly because its left-wing minority government and the conservative opposition have failed to agree on a national strategy. Only some regions have set up effective test-trace-isolate systems, and rates of infection vary wildly. Madrid is under a 15-day state of emergency that bars non-essential movement in or out of the city, limits social gatherings to six people and closes restaurants at 11pm. Catalonia and Navarre have been even tougher.
When covid-19 first arrived, northern Europeans snidely linked its virulence in Italy and Spain to their physically effusive cultures. That idea is harder to sustain this time: among the hardest-hit countries are Belgium and the Netherlands. “We are really very close to a tsunami. We no longer control what is happening,” warns Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgium’s health minister. The government has closed restaurants and bars and brought in a curfew from midnight until 5am.
Embargo their infected Livestock Meat Exports they did it to themselves.
And we are still in first wave in india
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DidierPittet Certes, mais aujourd'hui le déni de situation et le refus des populations est très fort alors que les points de situation sont éloquents, alors en été ! Imaginez ... on ne soigne pas sans l aval du patient
Guess they didn’t do so much better than the United States after all ..... hm.
Stay safe guys
normundsbergs Šim laikam jāpiekrīt
JUST LIKE (US)...🙏 tRumpf and GOP enablers
Laurie_Garrett Most likely is that EU follows the same “individualistic” mindset as the U.S. let’s not listen to science, respect others by wearing masks, avoiding contact. Gotta be able to go to my bars & have a drink
World leadership is nonexistant now that the US as abdicated the position.
Coming to s US state near you soon! Thanks dipshits, all you had to do was where a GD mask
6%
This is terrible news indeed. How will those in the entertainment/ tourism industry survive this? Even more small businesses won't make I'm afraid.
Lies!
The did *not fail. They sold their souls for money. Now, they pay the price.
Weak and stupid like Trump
They spent it fellating themselves dry that they could pity Americans.
Take a look at COVI-TRACK by SORRENTO PHARMACEUTICALS.
what if the solution exist and need to be tested for corona where shall submit the proposal as no hackathon since april all stopped strange
Misinformation and science denial is the real plague.
Perhaps, the expectation was that the vaccine doses would be teady by Fall !
Protect the vulnerable and allow the rest to carry on. Will some die? Probably. People do that, they die. Testing positive does not equal death.
Agree. Look to Asia, not EU:US. Japan (126.5million) has twice the population of the UK (66.7mm). Daily new cases: Japan 614 vs UK 20,318. South Korea with 52mm ppl: 77 new cases. Sweden with 10mm ppl: 1,500 now considering local lockdowns. COVID19 coviduk
So the British Gov't isn't the only one to fall behind with sensible and necessary Test and Trace isolation operations?
Hindsight is a wonderful virtue - investigate and report what Europe should do next and let’s see if your findings prove right.
but top 1% still increased their wealth by at least 40% , right ? thank god ! who cares about the other 99%. How much money has EU pumped in stock markets feeding those vampires ? 5trillion ? 10 trillion ?
Plagues come in waves. Lessons from the history of epidemiology. Europe should know. The worst is to come.
The Big Cope
So called democracy is anti-science and anti-wit.
Thats the future of Europe, because fools stay here.
Cut the crap, Bolshevik!
I would say that it is the single biggest failure of public policy since the last momentous failure. The last failure used to be, uncontentiously, Suez over 60 years ago. Now you can only go back 6 months at most so we have stopped using the phrase at all.
One word: procrestination
Have you audited your staff for mole infiltration? Call out the C19 scare as election year propaganda. This is a disgrace.
95% of positives are asymptomantic ... is it correct to chase them all?
Because it is bullshit.
They hoped everything will pass and now they can’t handle it... Surprise?!
A robust testing infrastructure takes more time to build than a summer. South Korea spent 2 years to redesign its testing infrastructure. During a pandemic is not the ideal time. It's after the last pandemic that it should have happened.
Which ones? Mine didn't..
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