THREAD: The nations of the world ran the gamut in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic -- sometimes veering from strict to lax measures over just a few months, or vice versa. #PandemicAtlashttp://apne.ws/c7YuQBS
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North Korea maintains there hasn’t been a single virus case on its soil, a claim widely disputed by outside experts.
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From March to May, France experienced one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns, shuttering the country’s famed cafes. France went into a second lockdown in the run-up to Christmas.
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The coronavirus emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, and swept across the world. It brought joblessness and lockdowns, infirmity and death to all corners of the globe. But each nation has its own story of how it coped. Read
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It wouldn't have made that much of a difference. The virus was already here and spreading.
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We did shut down nearly everthing: schools & businesses closed for 2 months, all but essential workers supported to stay home. During that time we created a barrier at the border: not closed but secured. Now everything is wide open, life normal, except that secured border.
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New Zealand is just 4.5 M people.
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New Zealand has the advantages of not being overly populous and being an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific ocean far away from others so "shutting down" not nearly the same as for European countries. Not sure what lessons one could learn from New Zealand's situation.
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Pres tried...he was called racist and xenophobic
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And destroyed their economy.
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the economy's doing fine:))
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