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I don't think Europe is doing particularly well either. Well, at least France where I live. France is going to release lockdown in a month. My impression is th

I don't think Europe is doing particularly well either. Well, at least France where I live. France is going to release lockdown in a month. My impression is that this is mostly for economical reasons because it was unsustainable. I'm not confident we'll deal with the epidemics much better this time. The gvt still hasn't released their roadmap, but they hope to improve their testing capacity, the availability of masks, and to enable contact tracing using some hypothetical app. There's no silver bullet, but we just hope that it'll work, otherwise we'll have to go into lockdown again (or not if it appears too costly). Our gvt hasn't communicated clearly on the possible outcomes. The president speech was mostly unsatisfying politician rhetoric, trying to avoid the fact that they didn't anticipate the crisis, and that they had no satisfactory solutions.

lbeltrame 7y ago
At least in a couple of months we'll know the result of trials for some repurposed drugs (there's quite a bunch slated to end in June). I don't expect miracles or super effectiveness, but some of these might be beneficial enough to take some load off the hospital system.
standardUser 7y ago
"France is going to release lockdown in a month." I highly doubt that will happen. The preferred approach seems to be incremental opening to try and control the transmission rate. There might be one or two very stupid leaders who want to open things up with a bang (cough Trump cough), but the European nations currently easing restrictions seem to being doing so very cautiously.
- yodsanklai 7y ago
  You are correct. Most shops and schools are expected to re-open but things won't be back to normal. Restaurants and cafe will remain closed, and people at risk should remain home. They still need to figure out the details. It seems that France is not much better prepared now that we were before the lockdown (masks/tests/contract tracing apps are still nowhere to be seen at that point). As for our leaders, they distinguish themselves in their rhetorics and in some symbolic measures, but I have the feeling everyone is following the same path. Exceptions are some Asian countries who seem to have the epidemics under control). They are the big winners...

lbeltrame 7y ago

At least in a couple of months we'll know the result of trials for some repurposed drugs (there's quite a bunch slated to end in June). I don't expect miracles or super effectiveness, but some of these might be beneficial enough to take some load off the hospital system.

standardUser 7y ago

"France is going to release lockdown in a month." I highly doubt that will happen. The preferred approach seems to be incremental opening to try and control the transmission rate. There might be one or two very stupid leaders who want to open things up with a bang (cough Trump cough), but the European nations currently easing restrictions seem to being doing so very cautiously.

yodsanklai 7y ago
You are correct. Most shops and schools are expected to re-open but things won't be back to normal. Restaurants and cafe will remain closed, and people at risk should remain home. They still need to figure out the details. It seems that France is not much better prepared now that we were before the lockdown (masks/tests/contract tracing apps are still nowhere to be seen at that point). As for our leaders, they distinguish themselves in their rhetorics and in some symbolic measures, but I have the feeling everyone is following the same path. Exceptions are some Asian countries who seem to have the epidemics under control). They are the big winners...