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> we 'reopened' the country and right now have more cases per day (yesterday 350) as at the beginning That's probably the bigger problem for your country than
by acqq 6y ago
> we 'reopened' the country and right now have more cases per day (yesterday 350) as at the beginning
That's probably the bigger problem for your country than the absolute number of deaths: the "reopening" happened too early compared to some countries of equivalent size where the cases per day became lower before the "reopening."
Even after the "reopening" the war is not won.
Also, looking at the graphs of daily cases and comparing it with some other European countries, the measures were obviously less effective than in these other countries. Given that 10 million of people are involved, it's much more nuanced than "we had X for Y days."
Edit: To answer: "I don't know how we got the good press": deaths per million: Portugal: 142, Switzerland: 222, Sweden: 450, Spain: 580. It's easy to see that's how Portugal looks obviously better, statically. What I point to with "probably the bigger problem" (that it's not over) is that e.g. new daily cases in Switzerland are now 19, v.s. Portugal's 350.
- odshoifsdhfs 6y agoI'm not defending my country at all. I don't know how we got the good press of being the 'miracle' country in international news where other countries did much better but are seemingly ignored. I'll also edit ;): Austria(75.73), Slovenia(52.72) Estonia(52.24) Lithuania(25.4) Croatia(25.19) So it doesn't seem so good, but for some reason, we are called a miracle: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/27/the-coronavirus-crisis-the-portuguese-pandemic-miracle/ https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/27/the-coronavirus-crisis-th... (first result in google, there are more)
- hutzlibu 6y agoI got the information, that you did very well, compared to your desastrous neighbour spain and given that spain was your neighbour.
- odshoifsdhfs 6y agoWe did ok, not a miracle. As mentioned, we had about half the deaths of Sweden, which is touted as the worst possible thing they could have done, and have triple or more than other countries (listed above). Seems either people had very low expectations of Portugal, or are just using the Portugal is almost the same as Spain idea and expected the same results (even though we were affected later, if we were first, we would probably see something similar)