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Originally Posted by 10023
The US and UK have fewer restrictions than Europe, so they’re getting it over with, and with few adverse consequences. Countries that are stubbornly trying to hold back the ocean are dragging it out for longer.
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What is this monolithic Europe with a policy of restrictions?
In Bulgaria they've basically acted like Covid never existed. Denmark recently ended
all restrictions (while experiencing the biggest spike in registered cases on the continent).
Again, the high and fast spikes in cases in European countries don't correspond to the effects of "flattening the curve" you claim exist, nor do they correspond to the differing, country-by-country realities of restrictions.
At this point, I'd suggest looking at the spread of this virus like the weather: it's a chaotic system; we can point to proximate causes of local events, but broader predictability eludes us.
Blaming late European omicron waves on pan-European policy--even if that's actually what the data tell us--is like blaming a late European spring on European climate change initiatives.