The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Catastrophe

Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by baxtr on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:03AM (#25979741)

I agree with you. The most important difference is policy. And I also think the EU should have acted very differently. They should have been way quicker and more decisive.

However, bear in mind that Europe has become super interconnected in the last decade or so. There are millions crossing borders to work on the other side. Germany is a great example. Those counties close to the Czech border had way higher incidence levels, most probably due to the constant exchange with Czech Republic.

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Re:The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Cata... by josephg on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:40PM (#25983337)

Yeah I get that, and I understand that that would make it difficult for individual nations to work alone. (Though not impossible - as other commenters have mentioned Australia successfully closed our internal borders.)

But you aren't in this alone. If Europe worked together, and your neighbors adopted similar policies it would have worked fine and covid would be under control by now.

The fact that you aren't on an island doesn't excuse the EU's bad covid policy decisions, at both the scale of individual countries and as a collective body.

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