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How Europe is responding to the coronavirus pandemic
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- Authors
- POLITICO, Maïa de La Baume, Hans von der Burchard, Sarah Wheaton
- Published
- Mar 12 2020
- Word count
- 6160 words
It's pretty long, but here are some interesting bits pulled from the article:
More info on The Netherlands:
Government advice as of yesterday:
schools stay open, to limit essential personnel to stay working and limit children visit elderly.
Oh how I hate how we treat schools as daycare, same in Germany. FFS, at least limit spread by telling all the kids to stay home if possible. Stop regular school activities and only use it as a daycare for those that need it. I.e. if the kids can take care of themselves or someone is home who can, send them home. If the only person who could take care of them at home is the pulmonary specialist mom, send the kid to school and let the teachers do their best to keep them busy and healthy. The older students are, the more likely they are to travel further distances on the regular, thus better vectors, and the better they are at taking care of themselves. It's really not hard. This isn't the time to risk a total lockdown out of a false sense of duty to keep the economy running smoothly.
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