no it's back. It will probably be gone again if things keep spiraling out of control, but child-care is back in France.

It is always funny thinking that outside of the US a lot of places are able to cautiously resume normal life while here we’re all either terrified or pretending nothing is wrong.

> pretending nothing is wrong.

And there's out problem. The covid situation in the US is a trainwreck because we can't get everyone to follow basic hygiene guidelines and practice social distancing.

We could have basically whooped this thing months ago if people weren't violently resisting face masks and similar measures.

On the bright side, Americans have prevented 90% of the 2+ million predicted deaths that were to have occurred by now had nothing been done.

That means most Americans don’t need the government to tell them what to do to make a decent outcome of things.

Yes we will voluntarily do better than nothing. It’s still infuriating that tens of thousands have died due to mixed messages about appropriate behavior. We’ve beaten the “do nothing” scenario but that is a very low bar.

France and Spain are also currently experiencing big spikes again. We are struggling in the US for sure (especially due to the extremity of most opinions like you mention), but so are other places.

They are having difficulties for very different reasons.

France and Spain seem to be experiencing big spikes precisely because they largely returned to normal. Now, reopening schools and childcare probably isn't the big problem there because they don't seem to be major contributors to spreading the disease - but this also means countries could just not have shut them in the first place.

Just to clarify, I was stating the situations in France and Spain are very different to the one the US is going through. Should have been more clear in my previous comment.

I'm not really sure your point, I wasn't saying they are spiking for the same or different reasons. Just that they're having problems too, so they're not exactly "able to resume normal life."