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Heartbreaking. If we'd dealt as a nation as well as the average European nation, our death toll would have been at least 100K lives lower so far. And we'd be looking to an end to the lockdowns. If only. No president in my lifetime (I'm 72) would have handled this crisis so bizarrely. And it goes on and on. He and his handlers could turn it around in a day ... it would improve their election standing ... but no. The all-about-me world of Donald Trump.

I don't think that's right; the European average is brought up by Italy, Spain, and France (who were hit early in the pandemic before anyone could prepare), and the UK, which delayed going into a lockdown thinking it could do a Sweden-like herd immunity play.  I think the death rate in the EU as a whole is about the same as the UK, though their trajectory is better.

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[BostonCard]

Heartbreaking. If we'd dealt as a nation as well as the average European nation, our death toll would have been at least 100K lives lower so far. And we'd be looking to an end to the lockdowns. If only. No president in my lifetime (I'm 72) would have handled this crisis so bizarrely. And it goes on and on. He and his handlers could turn it around in a day ... it would improve their election standing ... but no. The all-about-me world of Donald Trump.

I don't think that's right; the European average is brought up by Italy, Spain, and France (who were hit early in the pandemic before anyone could prepare), and the UK, which delayed going into a lockdown thinking it could do a Sweden-like herd immunity play.  I think the death rate in the EU as a whole is about the same as the UK, though their trajectory is better.

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