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US response to the virus is met with incredulity abroad
Nicole Winfield and Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press
Updated 8:49 am CDT, Sunday, August 9, 2020
FILE - In this July 30, 2020, file photo, passengers board a Casco Bay Lines ferry bound for Peaks Island in Portland, Maine. America's failure so far to contain the spread of the coronavirus as it moves across ... more
ROME (AP) The United States failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the worlds most powerful country edges closer to a global record of 5 million confirmed infections.
Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is Americas bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe's epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February, and the country still has one of the worlds highest official death tolls at 35,000.
But after a strict nationwide, 10-week lockdown, vigilant tracing of new clusters and general acceptance of mask mandates and social distancing, Italy has become a model of virus containment.
Dont they care about their health? a mask-clad Patrizia Antonini asked about people in the United States as she walked with friends along the banks of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome. They need to take our precautions. ... They need a real lockdown."
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US response to the virus is met with incredulity abroad (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Aug 2020
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Where's that video we all watched where the Korean girl almost broke down in tears and...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2020
#2
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. K&R!
Yup. International disgrace!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)2. Where's that video we all watched where the Korean girl almost broke down in tears and...
the Middle Eastern guy told us what a real lockdown is-- "We couldn't even go downstairs to visit a neighbor."
Paladin
(28,243 posts)3. The "Fuck All Government!" trump worshippers will kill us all.
If Democratic leadership fails us---or is subverted---and it takes fighting in the streets to save my loved ones, that's exactly what I'll do.