How is your country looking with Covid? Medically and Economically (NOT America)

This isnt political. And we know America is trashed now, nothing personal. But there are a LOT of other countries out there navigating their own health and economical recovery paths and I would be interested to know how other peoples believe their country is doing in your own words and opinions.😷

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SW-User

Given we have Trump minor in number 10 we're lagging just behind USA in terms of cock up.

What we've done well

. Furlough scheme. Thousands of employees who can't work are paid 80% of their salary by the government by throwing our tax system into reverse.
. NHS has been brilliant, especially the under paid nurses who've found themselves moved from normal duties into icu or covid wards etc.
. Testing - built a diagnostics industry we previously had relied on our European partners for

Done badly.
. Given huge contracts to companies with little or zero experience based in the recommendation of a lord or mp.
. Track and trace - been largely a shambles when they centralised it. Now its being given back to local councils it seems to be slowly getting better
. Testing - whilst we built it up it has had some incredible disasters like running it on a spreadsheet and blowing the max number of rows 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

So so...

. Obeying the rules. Typically British nothing is overtly imposed. Many have done the right thing but obvious cases where a minority haven't.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@SW-User I hear you. We had issues with illtrained contractors securing our quarantine that actually help our second wave escape and spread. A few political and public sector scalps have been taken over that. And our hospitality industry has been choked off completely with pubs restaurants and cafes shut down for all but take away service for months. Yet the people broadly were pretty good and understanding about it all. And the reward is now a cautious reopening..😷