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"You can make a case for a full-on economic shutdown, like the Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders and even to a lesser extent Canadians." The US is a Feder
by redm 6y ago
"You can make a case for a full-on economic shutdown, like the Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders and even to a lesser extent Canadians."
The US is a Federal Republic so it's not a fair comparison with our Federal Government. I think the equivalent would be the EU mandating member countries shutdown. (I'm not that familiar with the EU charter but this is my understanding).
"worse than anywhere on Earth other than Brazil."
That seems to be subjective based on the metrics of comparison. If you want to make a claim like this, please be more specific and account for key variables such as population densities, count criteria, and ability to count/likely undercount (which applies to the US as well).
- pintxo 6y agoThe EU - as political body - had nearly no say in the measure in Europe. Germany - a EU member - is itself a federal republic. Here, it's not the federal government but the state and local country/city governments who managed the crisis (e.g. the government agencies tasked with ensuring public health as largely organized on the city/council level). This sometimes results in diverging rules, but at the height of the crisis, everyone (even across party lines) sat together under the moderation of the federal government and came up with common rules to minimize irritation by differing rules. To summon up, I don't think its fundamentally a problem of the political organization but of the political climate. The US seems to be far beyond the point where anyone would expect the people in power to actually come to a consensus across party lines.