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While this is true, I wonder if this is not partly because the European countries were quite busy organising themselves and were anticipating an urgent but unkn
by ArnoVW 7y ago
While this is true, I wonder if this is not partly because the European countries were quite busy organising themselves and were anticipating an urgent but unknown need for their own population.
China has a retrospective of three months and has stabilized the situation. They know what they are facing and the resources needed, and have even started to dismantle the temporary hospitals they set up in January.
What can the individual European countries offer? They, like the Americans, have outsourced their production to China. Any masks, nurses or respirators they have, they will need themselves. They can offer 'money', which may not buy more masks but can help against the economic impacts.
And this is what is happening. The EU has both released monetary aids, and indicated that fiscal restraint rules will be waived.
- baxtr 7y agoYou are probably right. I think they could have sent at least doctors and nurses to prepare for their own epidemic.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI remember reading that some countries did. That said, there are shortages of doctors everywhere in the EU, and no country in their right mind would send out staff and supplies knowing they'll need them all back in two weeks.
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