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How can you explain Western Europe's suicide regarding COVID-19?
2020-05-19
[Arutz 7] - It is a mystery of the collective psyche. There must be an inner mechanism underlying the political ruling class. Otherwise, what is the possible explanation behind the Western European disaster n ithe management of Covid-19, expecially if you compare their experience with Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and other Western countries?

France, Spain, Belgium and UK had the catastrophic Italian example in front of their eyes.

Still, French President Emmanuel Macron went to the theater to see "Par le bout du Nez". It looked like a chapter in Manuel Chaves Nogales' book, "The Agony of France", where he says that while German soldiers marched through the streets of Paris, the French swarmed outside the cinemas, "in time for the aperitif in the bistro".

In the meantime, the Spanish authorities invited citizens to walk down the streets, to crowd themselves in a march for Women's Day and the epidemiologist Fernando Simón, in a press conference, declared: "If my son asked me if he can go, I would tell him to do what wants".

On March 8, while 366 people had already died from the virus in Italy, in Belgium Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès saw no problems in that masses of citizens poured into the Salon Batibouw (real estate fair), the Foire du Livre (book fair) and of course, for Women's Day. Belgium would soon have broken every per capita death record in Europe.

Keep calm and carry on was no better in England. Boris Johnson in those days shook hands like a rock star and liquidated the impending danger by wishing for "herd immunity". Soon he would need "liters and liters of oxygen".

The shortage of tests and masks has been camouflaged by Europe under the pretext of their supposed uselessness.

Sweden did nothing, thereby allowing old people to die.

The shortage of tests and masks has been camouflaged by Europe under the pretext of their supposed uselessness.

It seems that the European state on both national and central levels has shown a rare carelessness. An explosive mixture of bureaucracy, lethargy and casualness. A state which, for years, no longer believed in itself but in "Europe" or in the market.

It is the spectacle of Western Europe’s omnipotent impotence that we have unfolding before our eyes.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#6  the thing about removing kebab is there plenty more kebab willing to take the place of what you just removed
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-05-19 11:46  

#5  And they are well on their way this time to constructing Kabul on the Rhein.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-19 11:39  

#4  It's been over a hundred years, circa 1914, that the first major suicide attempt was carried out. We've wasted countless lives and precious resources keeping it alive for what? There was a reason our forefathers either left or were thrown out of the place.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-19 10:57  

#3  Chemotherapy on a national level. Removing old people and Islamic immigrant populations removes a massive load on the welfare state, and the pandemic can do it without anyone facing blame.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-05-19 10:56  

#2  Europe is run by self-important morons. What else is there to know?
Posted by: Iblis   2020-05-19 10:20  

#1  How? Never believe what's right in front of your eyes when it conflicts with the beautiful central planning narrative. That's how...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-19 09:20  

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