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Poorer Eastern European Nations Could Teach the West a Lesson on #Coronavirus: In Eastern and Central Europe, infections have largely been kept under control and governments are starting to loosen lockdowns. With @drewhinshaw via @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
By Sunday, Spain had lost 350 people per 1m of its population to #COVID19 , Italy 322, Belgium 314, France 202, and Britain 145. Romania, in contrast, had lost 15 per million, the Czech Republic 12, Poland 5, & Slovakia 0.4 @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st3562d64c4c454b14870f858e0f26bbc9">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
As the west dithered, poorer countries of Central and Eastern Europe, fearing their relatively weak health care systems would be overwhelmed by the virus, moved more quickly to enact strict social-distancing rules and restrict movement to contain outbreaks https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st3562d64c4c454b14870f858e0f26bbc9">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
Germans celebrated Carnival, Italians flocked to soccer games, Britons packed concert stadiums. U.S. spring breakers partied & filled Gulf-Coast beaches well into March. Those events later proved to have had a super-spreader effect, disseminating the virus https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st3562d64c4c454b14870f858e0f26bbc9">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
He invoked The Plague by Albert Camus as an allegory for how the Western world was caught off guard by the #coronavirus pandemic. “It turned out that faith in your own progress would not protect you from a new disease,” @SlawomirDebski said. @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st79a117fdb6cb411794f57a326f1598fe">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
North Macedonia now operates a generational curfew, under which people over 67 have had their free public transport pass revoked and aren’t allowed to leave their homes after midday. @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st79a117fdb6cb411794f57a326f1598fe">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
As Prague went into lockdown, U.K. PM Johnson told Brits they could continue attending mass sporting events. Two days earlier President Trump said, “We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st79a117fdb6cb411794f57a326f1598fe">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
NY Gov. Cuomo boasted on March 2 that his city had the world’s best health care system “We don’t even think it’s going to be as bad as it was in other countries.” NY didn’t issue stay-at-home orders until March 20, when 15,000 had been confirmed infected https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st79a117fdb6cb411794f57a326f1598fe">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
“In the West, people believe that high-tech societies with very good health care could deal with anything, and that created an illusion that they would have the time and tools to fight a sudden pandemic,” said @SlawomirDebski https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st79a117fdb6cb411794f57a326f1598fe">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
For weaker ex-communist Europe, a situation “where the state can be left unable to manage a situation is not stuff for novelists,” he said. “It is ingrained in living memory.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/poorer-eastern-european-nations-could-teach-the-west-a-lesson-on-coronavirus-11586718779?shareToken=st79a117fdb6cb411794f57a326f1598fe">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
Greece Shows How to Handle the Crisis. Basically countries with memory of hardship, crisis, epidemic were much quicker than others. Including Taiwan, S.Korea, Israel, Finland https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-10/greece-handled-coronavirus-crisis-better-than-italy-and-spain">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...
#Coronavirus: Fauci says US & #39;could have saved lives& #39; with earlier action https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52264860">https://www.bbc.com/news/worl...
