I read recently the USA and Americans will be locked out of some country's like Australia ect for at least 5 years [I Open Discussion About Menstruation And Its Symptoms]

@newjaninev2 I can't really talk for Europe. But Belgium has been doing pretty bad from the beginning. Now, our governement did decide to go into lockdown fairly quickly in comparisson to our neighbours, but it was already to late. And when the outbreak started a lot of people were skeeing and brought the virus home.

Our issue is that we have a pretty old poppulation (I don't know how this compares to our surroundings) but the virus has done serious damadge under the elderly. Mix that up with a high poppulation density... and we ended up with a seriously high deatthole. I'm not sure how we are doing in comparisson, but the last time I looked in deaths/capita we were in the top 3.

The EU is impotent, but they did manage to reach a consensus that at least vaccines are more equally distributed and that smaller countries don't get pushed back by more powerfull entities.

@Kwek00 The guys in the room with me right now say that so long as the Belgians keep the beer coming, things won’t be too bad.

I’m more concerned about the chocolates...

@newjaninev2 Nah, I don't think there are issues there at the moment. I did hear "Nutella" has been having issues, but that's not Belgian 😅

@SteelHands sneaky Aussie's you can't trust anybody

@MARTAisback It's more likely that they're only protecting themselves. Both from the covid and from the sneaky end around of US cooperation with their chinese competitors.

The key to understanding this is that Australia has no choice, given it's vulnerable location in the world. They were completely aligned with Trump's foreign policy regarding predatorial chinese business practices. Biden is so weak against China that the US will no longer have a close relationship until it's business practices recognize the danger of chinese agressive posturing in that area of the world.