Interesting articles on the Wuhan Coronavirus

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The Daily Telegraph of London has an interesting article on how Latvia has achieved one of the best records on the virus in Europe while keeping its economy open. They have had 20,000 confirmed cases and only 19 deaths. Their prime minister resisted strict lockdowns and kept businesses open. The only businesses closed were theatres and cinemas, and large shopping malls were restricted to operating Monday through Friday. Even restaurants have remained fully open.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...s-stayed-open/

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From the article: "a key reason for the Baltic state's relative success in halting the spread of the virus so far, were the 'very many' early steps taken by the government". I guess good leadership works and the Latvian leader didn't call the virus a liberal hoax and wasn't out of town every weekend playing golf while the virus was going international.

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Here is another interesting article on the huge damage to the tourism industry in southern Europe from the Wuhan Coronavirus which is 21% of their GDP:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/so...get-back-again

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From the article: "a key reason for the Baltic state's relative success in halting the spread of the virus so far, were the 'very many' early steps taken by the government". I guess good leadership works and the Latvian leader didn't call the virus a liberal hoax and wasn't out of town every weekend playing golf while the virus was going international.

He certainly wasn't being jerked around by his opposition with a fake impeachment charade during that time period.

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From the article: "a key reason for the Baltic state's relative success in halting the spread of the virus so far, were the 'very many' early steps taken by the government". I guess good leadership works and the Latvian leader didn't call the virus a liberal hoax and wasn't out of town every weekend playing golf while the virus was going international.

He certainly wasn't being jerked around by his opposition with a fake impeachment charade during that time period.

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If you don't like it or have no excuse or explanation, call it fake. From the con artist's bible.

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And now it looks like Sicily will pay tourists to visit the island - half the air fare and one night's hotel - to get tourists coming back after the Wuhan virus passes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fi...tourists-visit

Sicily is a beautiful island if you have never been.

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And now it looks like Sicily will pay tourists to visit the island - half the air fare and one night's hotel - to get tourists coming back after the Wuhan virus passes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fi...tourists-visit

Sicily is a beautiful island if you have never been.

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The Daily Telegraph of London has news on the reopening of European countries for tourism:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/n...n-coronavirus/

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Fake news ?

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And now it looks like Sicily will pay tourists to visit the island - half the air fare and one night's hotel - to get tourists coming back after the Wuhan virus passes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fi...tourists-visit

Sicily is a beautiful island if you have never been.

Yes it is, I was there once in my parents home towns , Beautiful area's

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I had some relatives there too.

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Denmark reopened much of its economy two weeks ago and is not seeing any increase in Wuhan virus cases. Even their schools have reopened (as Switzerland's will next week).

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...ing-of-economy

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Denmark has free universal government healthcare, and they probably have better leadership than we do here. Why shouldn't they have handled the corona virus better. I bet they also believe in science.

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Denmark has free universal government healthcare, and they probably have better leadership than we do here. Why shouldn't they have handled the corona virus better. I bet they also believe in science.

This pandemic has shown that real science is the key, not the game of modelling. Some over reacted due to wildly inaccurate models with hugely inflated gloom and doom predictions, something that is also common in some other areas of public policy. Models can be manipulated any way the designer wants or sometimes are just screwy for other reasons. Switzerland, for example, used real science in reopening its schools next Monday. They determined that the viral loads carried by children were too low to infect either other children or adults, so Swiss schools reopen on May 11.

Denmark also defied the EU with a very strict border closure, not letting anyone in except Danish citizens or people with Danish residency permits. Everyone else from business travelers to illegal alien migrants were turned away. That helped cut their exposure.

Most EU countries with government run "free" healthcare have a much lower proportion of ICU beds than the US healthcare system, and that has proven a negative factor in dealing with the virus.

One of the strangest on the list of businesses allowed to reopen in Europe is Greece allowing brothels to reopen. I cannot think of a business model that has any closer customer contact.