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...Germany has conducted more than two million Covid-19 diagnostic tests so far, almost twice as much per population as the U.S. The government is now pushing to increase testing capacity from nearly 900,000 to 4.5 million a week by corralling animal health labs—this would be equivalent to testing 18 million Americans a week.
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[for example] Boris Palmer, mayor of Tübingen, population 90,000, made sure each of the 15,000 residents over age 65 received a face mask and ordered systematic testing for all residents and employees of nursing homes.

In the early days of the epidemic, when countries such as Britain struggled to even procure testing kits, Mr. Palmer organized mobile testing in the form of medical vans that provided walk-in swabbing in his city’s squares. Cross-party support at the state level helped quickly mobilize funds for the testing, Mr. Palmer said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/local-practical-apolitical-inside-germanys-successful-coronavirus-strategy-11588325403

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This is a real problem for air travel:

In an interview with the Press Association news agency, Mr Holland-Kaye [the CEO of Heathrow] said: "It's just physically impossible to socially distance with any volume of passengers in an airport."

He said a "better solution" is needed to make air travel safe. "The constraint is not about how many people you can fit on a plane, it will be how many people you can get through an airport safely."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52504183

A line for security checks at Heathrow would stretch for miles if social distancing rules were in place.

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Most business model diagrams have this form:

Exercise for the reader 2: Identify a shithole country

The first COVID-19 case in Singapore was detected on January 23, 2020. On May 1, the city-state recorded the 16th death from the virus. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/coronavirus-932-new-cases-in-singapore-on-friday-as-total-crosses-17000

The first case was detected in NYC on March 1. By May 1, about 20 thousand people in the metropolitan area died from the virus.

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В Вильнюсе люди успешно протестуют против карантина без всяких винтовок.

https://chingizid.livejournal.com/2303384.html

Не можете сделать как мы, хотя бы хотите, чтобы у вас так стало, но не покорно надейтесь, что начальство сжалится, отменит карантинчик и всё разрешит, а хотите - страстно и яростно, со всем возможным отчаянием, но и со всей возможной радостью, так, словно бы уже всё получилось, с такой силой, будто речь не о баловстве типа уличных кафешек, а о жизни и смерти (по большому счёту, так оно и есть).

https://www.populationpyramid.net/lithuania/2020/

Интересно, почему у них мужчины мрут после 35 лет. Алкоголь, наверное.