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Here in Germany, the government called Corona "a trick by the political right" to "achieve border closing". We only closed borders way after every country aroun
by 101404 6y ago
Here in Germany, the government called Corona "a trick by the political right" to "achieve border closing". We only closed borders way after every country around us did. Because ideology is more important than human lives, apparently.
- _trampeltier 6y agoSwitzerland never really closed the boarder because every day about 7000 people come from italy to switzerland for work in healthcare.
- 101404 6y agoSame here, people working across the border get special permits. But they do need permits if they want to cross. Closing border refers to closing it for regular people.
- amagasaki 6y agoAt least post a source for such a claim. M understanding is that they managed. to act relatively good, given the information and circumstances.
- 101404 6y agoIt was in the newspapers in February and first half of March. The "big switch" was 14to 15 of March. The MSN here ran a fake story about Trump wanting to buy some German pharma company (all large newspapers retracted the story around March 17), but it was enough to get people sufficiently distracted to completely change their previous policy. It was pretty interesting to watch how it was orchestered.