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Europe’s Deadly Second Wave: Norway, Ireland and Finland have done best of all.
Credit where it’s due. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/04/world/europe/europe-covid-deaths.html
Credit where it’s due. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/04/world/europe/europe-covid-deaths.html
“Europeans wanted it all,” said. Prof. Devi Sridhar of the Edinburgh University Medical School.
“In Europe people are still wondering ‘Is it worth it, should we protect people or the economy?’,” she said, adding that experience shows this is a false dilemma.
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“In Europe people are still wondering ‘Is it worth it, should we protect people or the economy?’,” she said, adding that experience shows this is a false dilemma.
@MatinaStevis
Strict lockdowns in most countries had lifted health care systems off their knees, just as the US was fighting record caseloads.
‘The weather was warming up, the European Union was encouraging borders to reopen and Europeans were desperate for a break.
They paid dearly for it’
‘The weather was warming up, the European Union was encouraging borders to reopen and Europeans were desperate for a break.
They paid dearly for it’
At times, I imagine I understand the depth of the division in the US (and to a mercifully far less degree in Ireland) over SARS-CoV2 but really, I don't.
See this tweet dripping with contempt from a Florida legislator and the anguished reply it evokes.
See this tweet dripping with contempt from a Florida legislator and the anguished reply it evokes.
One more visualisation
Turn https://twitter.com/illustratethis/status/1335282370669383684?s=21 https://twitter.com/illustratethis/status/1335282370669383684
More than 4m. people visited Spain in July/August, often with no requirements to test or isolate when they arrived or returned home... it gave the virus plenty of opportunities.
Tourists held parties in private villas, limiting the effectiveness of government restrictions.
Tourists held parties in private villas, limiting the effectiveness of government restrictions.
After a rocky start, NPHET has done a very good job. Most people in Ireland know that.
The attack on them by vested interest lobby groups, amplified by some media, and bought into by government, will take a toll on us.
The attack on them by vested interest lobby groups, amplified by some media, and bought into by government, will take a toll on us.
