Best place to spend winter during a potential second wave of COVID?
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In addition, tourists aren’t visiting cities globally. That means no tourists and commuters, which is having a disastrous impact on the businesses that depend on them. The only way governments could have addressed this is to get control of the virus on a nationwide or global basis, which means test/trace/treatment/masking.
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Also again for the argument that the lockdown kills economy, not the virus, here is yet another real life example showing this is wrong. If the virus is controlled then the economy rebound.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/b...down-iowa.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/b...down-iowa.html
York has done pretty well since the initial outbreaks. However few others have done this
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Agreed with you. But for this to work you need to contain transmission to a very low level, which means getting to a low level. And for this to happen in Europe you need to lockdown now for a month.
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“You can’t just open the economy and expect everything to go back to pre-Covid levels,” said Michael Luca, a Harvard Business School economist who has studied the impact of restrictions during the pandemic. “If a market is not safe, people won’t participate in it.”
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You can cross Uruguay off your winter travel itineraries.
One of South America’s top summer destinations will remain closed to foreign tourists this summer.
Uruguay, home to luxury beach resort Punta del Este, will keep international borders closed this summer, President Luis Lacalle Pou said late Thursday. The country, which boasts the lowest Covid infection and mortality rates in South America, will opt to protect its public health gains over the economy as Covid-19 rages in neighboring Argentina and Brazil. Uruguay has recorded just 2,701 virus cases and 53 deaths.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...losed-on-covid
One of South America’s top summer destinations will remain closed to foreign tourists this summer.
Uruguay, home to luxury beach resort Punta del Este, will keep international borders closed this summer, President Luis Lacalle Pou said late Thursday. The country, which boasts the lowest Covid infection and mortality rates in South America, will opt to protect its public health gains over the economy as Covid-19 rages in neighboring Argentina and Brazil. Uruguay has recorded just 2,701 virus cases and 53 deaths.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...losed-on-covid
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The billion people losing everything and the 100 million starving to death on the streets don't matter, as long as the lower middle classes in the west can get their 80% salary and virtue signal to their "friends" on Facebook.
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The answer has been staring the entire world in the face for a long long time. The west refuses to see it.
In the East, where Covid was a problem long before it was in the radar of the West, life continues as normal. And it has nothing to do with authoritarian v. “free”, as Singapore/post-Wuhan China/Thailand and Taiwan/Korea/Japan are all living life as normal.
So what is the common denominator? All those countries have societal value about giving a **** about someone other than themselves. There was no need for a mask mandate because everyone wore a ******* mask. Testing and tracing and responsible social distancing is the norm, lockdowns and debates over wearing a Goddamn cloth over your face is not.
It’s frankly sad, how horrible the West outside some very select countries, faced this pandemic compared to the East.
as to where the best place to spend the winter is, stay home with your family.
In the East, where Covid was a problem long before it was in the radar of the West, life continues as normal. And it has nothing to do with authoritarian v. “free”, as Singapore/post-Wuhan China/Thailand and Taiwan/Korea/Japan are all living life as normal.
So what is the common denominator? All those countries have societal value about giving a **** about someone other than themselves. There was no need for a mask mandate because everyone wore a ******* mask. Testing and tracing and responsible social distancing is the norm, lockdowns and debates over wearing a Goddamn cloth over your face is not.
It’s frankly sad, how horrible the West outside some very select countries, faced this pandemic compared to the East.
as to where the best place to spend the winter is, stay home with your family.
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It’s not an answer because although you maybe right, it’s no solution. There is no way the population of the western countries will suddenly start following rules like the countries you mention. Whether you like it or not, it’s not realistic. Climate activists, poverty, animal cruelty etc can all make the same useless argument.
A more practical question would be.. given the attitudes of western people (in general, not all, but some) what is the best way... what’s the answer to that, without pointless bitterness which achieves nothing, apart from taking a swipe
A more practical question would be.. given the attitudes of western people (in general, not all, but some) what is the best way... what’s the answer to that, without pointless bitterness which achieves nothing, apart from taking a swipe
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It’s not an answer because although you maybe right, it’s no solution. There is no way the population of the western countries will suddenly start following rules like the countries you mention. Whether you like it or not, it’s not realistic. Climate activists, poverty, animal cruelty etc can all make the same useless argument.
A more practical question would be.. given the attitudes of western people (in general, not all, but some) what is the best way... what’s the answer to that, without pointless bitterness which achieves nothing, apart from taking a swipe
A more practical question would be.. given the attitudes of western people (in general, not all, but some) what is the best way... what’s the answer to that, without pointless bitterness which achieves nothing, apart from taking a swipe
I am bitter, because a certain segment of the west (and it rhymes with tight tee pull) would rather take their freedoms to the grave than to give a **** about anyone but themselves. A derelict of humanity.
Cases are at all time high, stay home this winter.
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Yes, European culture is different than culture of some places you mentioned. That's why we consistently score the best results when it comes to population's happiness (especially our liberal and progressive regions, such as Nordic countries), unlike places where everyone's just a part of a big machine with no individual value.
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When the daily death counts for this virus in Sweden was much higher than it is now, demand in Sweden plummeted -- and in ways plummeted to levels even below that in locked down Norway and Denmark. And this happened in Sweden even as there was little to no government mandate to shutdown at that time. Right now in Sweden, demand has recovered to a substantial degree in parts, but that is because of pandemic fatigue and because the daily death counts for this virus had dropped a lot and stayed pretty low for some months. If the pandemic gets worse and the daily death counts skyrocket, the demand will probably plummet again and even more retail venues in the country will shutdown or (again) further restrict their hours due to limited demand. Even now, the restaurant businesses around the city center office buildings in the big Swedish cities are getting only about 50% of the lunch traffic that they were getting at this time last year. That drop in business is due to the pandemic, not so much due to lock-downs.
If the death counts in Sweden return this winter to levels as bad or worse than was the case in the Q2 in Sweden, Sweden will be a less socially active place then than it is today and that will be largely due to members of the public not wanting to win themselves or their near and dear ones a Darwin Award.
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We’re all programmed one way or another, Westerners very different to Asians. There’s no point being upset about it, it’s just the way the world works. Life isn’t fair, and there’s probably worse injustices to concern yourself about than Covid, and a lot of things you can celebrate rather than be pissed off about.
Soon enough there will be a vaccine, and Covid will fade, disproportionately depending on health and wealth. And that’s the best case scenario....
Soon enough there will be a vaccine, and Covid will fade, disproportionately depending on health and wealth. And that’s the best case scenario....
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Yes, European culture is different than culture of some places you mentioned. That's why we consistently score the best results when it comes to population's happiness (especially our liberal and progressive regions, such as Nordic countries), unlike places where everyone's just a part of a big machine with no individual value.
(if you actually believe these surveys)
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As I wrote before. You want to control/eliminate the virus, then do as APAC countries did:
Well, pick up any of above.
- Give everyone QR code that determines their health status and where they can go/enter - China. The public has no option to contest what government/health authorities do. Lockdown your borders, force everyone arriving from outside to stay in government-run quarantine.
- Lockdown your borders, force everyone arriving from outside to stay in quarantine facility and charge them - NZ, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunai, Thailand, China, Singapore.
- Lockdown your borders, introduce internal borders inside the country, don't even give permissions to your own citizens to come back to the country without prior approval and prohibit them from leaving - AU.
- Lockdown your borders, force everyone arriving from outside to stay in government-run quarantine facility with movement controlling bracelet, force everyone in the country to wear Bluetooth token when they leave the house and handle $8000-$9000 fines for breaking health regulations based on Facebook posts - Singapore.
- Lockdown your borders, use extensive movement tracking based on GPS data/credit card transactions and share such data to other people, force everyone arriving from outside to stay in government-run quarantine facility with movement controlling app and checks hourly - Korea, Taiwan
Well, pick up any of above.
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