This was always going to be a shit show no matter what anyone did. I just can't believe how politicized this became.Tell me about it. I'm in the middle of this fucking mess. Americans were lucky to have Trump who secured the vaccines unlike these EU idiots.Was that his point?Orange man badYeah, and I'm right in the middle of this. We've been on severe lockdowns since early November and the vaccines are going at a snails pace. You have no idea of how lucky you are to have had Trump instead of a bloated bureaucracy where no one has the balls to do anything except Orban in Hungary.Europe had massive lockdowns, and yet they are over 1,000,000 deaths (and many of those countries don't count COVID deaths as easily as we have been doing).
And this in spite of the fact that many European nations do not count COVID deaths as generously as we do.
There have been at least 38,843,000 reported infections and 1,026,000 reported deaths caused by the novel coronavirus in Europe so far.
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Coronavirus in Europe: the latest counts, charts and maps
Tracking the COVID-19 outbreak, updated dailygraphics.reuters.com
Lockdowns good
Europe's response to the pandemic was held up as the standard.
It seems they weren't such a good standard after all.