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I would normally agree with a statement along these lines. However I would like to think that this came out of the marketing budget for the tourism sector. I be

I would normally agree with a statement along these lines. However I would like to think that this came out of the marketing budget for the tourism sector. I bet tourism is significant to Egypt's economy. Then I think the question becomes: Was this an effective marketing event? Who knows. But considering someone from South Africa is discussing it with someone in the Netherlands on HN perhaps it worked out.

inglor_cz 6y ago
Absolutely. We do not normally discuss Egypt here in CZ, but this video is spreading virally across the social networks. The post-Covid summer is inching closer and there is a lot of pent-up demand for tourism and discovery of new places. I bet some people are not going to forget this show.
- egeozcan 6y ago
  > The post-Covid summer is inching closer Where I'm living (Germany), this sounds like fantasy.
  - inglor_cz 6y ago
    There is a good chance that by August we will be over 50 % vaccinated and there will be a late vacation season.
    - morelisp 6y ago
      If true, I should definitely have left Berlin for Prague a couple years ago...
      - inglor_cz 6y ago
        Czech coronavirus response was a rollercoaster. We were the best in spring 2020. Then came the summer respite and the government started resting on their laurels. Then came the menacing autumn and an absolutely disastrous winter, when we actually were the worst in the world. If the USA had the same mortality as we have, it would have over 800 000 deaths by now. Now the disease is falling off again in lockdown, but really fast, faster than expected (people are lukewarm about the rules). There is some suspicion that the British variant simply swept through the nation so hard that, even with the subpar vaccination campaign, we have reached the herd immunity inadvertently. Clearly some of the regions that were worst hit just a month or two ago (Chebsko, Trutnovsko) are now doing OK, which seems to indicate lack of fuel for further infections there.

inglor_cz 6y ago

Absolutely. We do not normally discuss Egypt here in CZ, but this video is spreading virally across the social networks. The post-Covid summer is inching closer and there is a lot of pent-up demand for tourism and discovery of new places. I bet some people are not going to forget this show.

egeozcan 6y ago
> The post-Covid summer is inching closer Where I'm living (Germany), this sounds like fantasy.
- inglor_cz 6y ago
  There is a good chance that by August we will be over 50 % vaccinated and there will be a late vacation season.
  - morelisp 6y ago
    If true, I should definitely have left Berlin for Prague a couple years ago...
    - inglor_cz 6y ago
      Czech coronavirus response was a rollercoaster. We were the best in spring 2020. Then came the summer respite and the government started resting on their laurels. Then came the menacing autumn and an absolutely disastrous winter, when we actually were the worst in the world. If the USA had the same mortality as we have, it would have over 800 000 deaths by now. Now the disease is falling off again in lockdown, but really fast, faster than expected (people are lukewarm about the rules). There is some suspicion that the British variant simply swept through the nation so hard that, even with the subpar vaccination campaign, we have reached the herd immunity inadvertently. Clearly some of the regions that were worst hit just a month or two ago (Chebsko, Trutnovsko) are now doing OK, which seems to indicate lack of fuel for further infections there.