LISBON—In this soccer-crazed capital of a soccer-obsessed nation, the stadiums are full again. Portugal, a country ravaged earlier in the year by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, now has the highest Covid-19 vaccination rate in Europe and offers a glimpse of a country trying to come to grips with what is increasingly looking like an endemic virus.
Close to 100% of people over the age of 50 have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the Portuguese government. For those between the ages of 25 and 49 it is 95% and from 12 to 17 it is 88%. Some 89% of Portugal’s entire population of 10 million has had at least one vaccine dose, not far behind the rate in the world-leading United Arab Emirates, compared with 65% in the U.S. and 73% in the U.K., according to Oxford University’s Our World in Data.
At the same time, subways are full. Lisbon’s fleet of rickshaw taxis, known by the Thai term tuk-tuk, whisk tourists along the narrow streets of the city’s old town. Nightlife pulsates in various parts of the city all week, tram lines popular with tourists skip stops because they are bursting with passengers and almost every day finds a new massive cruise ship docked at the harbor.
How did Portugal convince those incredibly selfish people who think they somehow know more than the experts to get vaccinated? Maybe it just isn’t political there and people do what is right.
Drivel.
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The best response to any virus is to not allow government to get involved.
18,144 is a lot of death for such a tiny country. Not to mention the extreme toll on its health care system. Nobody talks about that economic cost.
It’s the same in Budapest, I was there last week and it feels like the pandemic never happened. People with no masks, clubs packed and most of the population vaccinated. Life goes on
Shame the rubbish Uk haven't got the leadership and sense a small country like Portugal has isn't it ? 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Covid does kill and has killed millions. Now we come to a decision. Do we fear covid for eternity or accept we may die from it or thousands of other things each year and go back to living life.
Why not examine all of Scandinavia which is actually treating Covid as endemic?
Good to see a country prospering post Covid with common sense, strong leadership and little disruption from anti vaccination groups
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A lot of ppl have been learning to live with it. This isn't anything new.
Wait until a vaxxed gives someone covid lol
I thought Sweden tried that. I recall that the King and Prime Minister issued formal apologies for the failure. Since then they have passed laws allowing restrictions, including lockdowns.
Ahh all of scandanavia?
Ivermectin works
Highest vaccination rate is in INDIA 🇮🇳 stop your hypocrisy
We have been having around 600/800 cases daily for a 10M population. Death toll around 5/10 a day, mostly elders like always. The ration death/cases is similar from last year. This summer we had 10 times more cases and deaths than last year with no vaccine. Winter is coming.
Temperature in Portugal has allowed lots of Ventilation. Which when added to masking is most effective non pharmacological method to stop spread as COVIDisAirborne and exhaled in infected breath. Wait until winter arrives as like Australia when temperatures drop windows close.
Treating it as chronic is not a definition of endemic that is useful. Long Covid should matter . Disability from it should matter. Too many people I know lost people. Endemic has to be at a level where the consequences are something that can be lived with. Who can live with that
Interesting too see , as it’s also a seasonal virus , as there all entering winter
England lifted its restrictions months ago, Portugal wasn't the first
Mmmmm
Other countries :
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Don’t say live with they got in top of it
In Britain we simply don't care anymore. Life has resumed as normal for most and it's best that way
it's called psyop 😂😂 you're literally feeding people fear-based bullshit 😂
WAKE UP PEOPLE
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There it is, the Pandemic shifted to Industrial Disease a few months ago, as Ireland, Britain, Malaysia too recently called it.
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