> Europeans believe in science ¿? I can tell you we have our fair amount of anti-science people. It has been growing a lot since widespread social media use.

> Europeans believe in science ¿? I can tell you we have our fair amount of anti-science people. It has been growing a lot since widespread social media use. > This collision of reality brought Europe to a logical conclusion. The money that is a consequence of production, and that only has value where there’s production, plainly ran out. Hence the layoffs. Crucial is that government can’t reverse this bit of reality. Only private production can. Which brings us back to what’s simple and easy: if countries want their economies revived, they must end the restrictions that are limiting the private production without which governments have nothing to hand out. Man, where do I begin. First, the only (large) country that has properly locked down is Italy. Second, the whole article is... weird? What's the myth of 'safety nets'? They collapse if we don't have means to sustain it? Yeah, we knew it already, so? Is that the myth? That they are magical? I really don't get the point of the article. Is it suggesting that we don't get the importance of tourism as an export? Third, the has been quite a lot discussion in Europe about what to do, and divergent strategies. Results of such strategies are different too, even within countries with apparently similar approach. Why? We don't really know, there are so many variables.. even inside Spain there are wild differences between regions that aren't apparently doing anything different from others. IMO the only consensus being reached it's that you can't divorce economy from public health. If you open an office and some people gets infected, what do you do? Even if you do nothing, some people won't go to work no matter what you tell them. In my company we reacted quickly and pretty much everyone went remote, but some partners can't, and we've seen them doing quite a lot of acrobatics to keep the company going. One of those companies, aside from the mandatory mask and hygiene checks their workers often via private labs, changed AC and installed copper in some surfaces. I don't think they can do much more. But they keep getting infected people from time to time.