Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
At least at an anecdotal observation it looks like Europe has two sorts of phase 2. Some countries got high levels of infections very quickly, got really high numbers as a result, but then have started to fall quite fast. Whereas other countries seem to have a more gentle increase, a long plateau, and hopefully a fall, but perhaps a quite slow fall.
Isn't that what the whole "flatten the curve" concept is about? You can either have a very fast wave, but with a high peak, or stretch infections over a longer time, but peaking at lower point, protecting the health care system.
If Czech and Belgian health care managed to cope (I don't know about BE, but knowing few doctors in CZ it seems they did), then they actually came out of the second wave pretty good and they might be back to relative freedom at the time when the rest of Europe will still struggle (similar thing happened with SE in the spring).