innonimatu
the resident Cassandra
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In Europe Spain n and Greece probably don't have that option heavily reliant on tourism so probably can't afford to bubble for 18 months/two years and were heavily in debt.
What the governments of southern Europe have done has not saver their economy. Instead during the wave after wave of lockdowns not even the internal tourism and associated services can do business. It would have been better, economically, to accept the hit to international tourism and make do with the reduced internal one.
Silence, @innonimatu is going ballistic again
I'm already resigned to seeing things being run by idiots. Meaning more of the same.
We're in 1915 in the parallel I'm making with WW1 in Europe. Promises that the pandemic would over by christmas, excuse me by the summer, have been shown false. The attrition goes on. Now it's the promise of the vaccine breakthrough. If/when that too fails (and I do think it will) revolution will start brewing. The governments are trapped within their mistakes and obsessions, totally unwilling to change strategy. Two more years of this and it'll be 1917 everywhere in Europe.