Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Massive COVID Spike In EU Sparks MORE Lockdown Riots, Leftists Worried Spike PROVES Trump Was Right" video.

@gerbo8018 Why weren't you ready for the second wave? I'm just some dumb yokel in Canada but I knew the second wave was coming. There should have been mobile hospitals and medical teams at the ready so if there was a huge spike, they could handle it. In fact, back in April, when the daily case count was less than 2000, the death count was around 300. Now, the daily case load is around 20,000 the death rate is less than 140 per day. 10 times the cases and half the deaths. The disease can't be stopped but it can be handled. That's what almost every government has being doing wrong. They think they can stop it. It will run it's course. What they have to do is to be prepared to handle the case load and keep the economy running at the same time. Very few countries seem to want to do that.
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@shadowraven4221 Only an average of 850 deaths per day, much better than the death rate of 2200 a day with only 33,000 cases a day on average. Worse, the UN and WHO have warned that lock downs have doubled world poverty rates and 10s of millions are facing starvation. The lock downs could kill more people, world wide than Covid if the world economy is destroyed. In fact, if things are so bad in the US, why are they sending people, 14,000 of them, to Czechia to help with their first wave? There's more to epidemic dynamics than what we know. We just haven't had any real experience with it to know should be done.
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@gerbo8018 I didn't know about those world records. I'm of Dutch heritage. My parents came to Canada in 51. I've been to the Netherlands a few times but never to Belgium but my parents always saw Belgium as a sister nation. My dad's best friend was Belgian. To be honest, I'm not sure on how efficient the Dutch government is either. I just assumed that they were like all the old Dutchmen I knew here in Canada. Hardworking and pragmatic and I figured the Belgians were the same. However, governments sure know how to screw things up. That's why I'm not a fan of socialism. They do what they do now badly. I don't want them to do more. That's just more to get wrong. I think you've just justified my reasoning on it. We'd like them to be better but they never seem to be able to do it.
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@grahamtaylor6883 Belgium had 23,000 yesterday. That's country with a similar population to Sweden. Holland had 11,000 cases, Czechia...13,000. Poland....21,000. France 47,000. Spain...25,000. Even when accounting for population differences, Sweden is way better off. I think part of the reason is that population density is way lower in Sweden than the rest of Europe. France would have been well advised to allow a planned exodus for those who wanted to go to their country homes and had them isolate there. That might have saved a lot of the resentment and problems of that they're having now.
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@gerbo8018 So, it's been an entire year since that government formed and they've had 6 months to get an emergency plan in shape. However, I get it. Nothing slower than a government. Living in Canada, we get nothing but American news and it's all about how Trump did everything wrong. I guess it's not as easy as it looks or as people would like it to be. What I do know is that doctors are getting better and better at treating the disease and the survival rates are getting higher all the time. I'd say that any government would be best advised to protect the elderly and those who have pre-existing conditions that could threaten their survival. Make that their top priority and then encourage the rest of us to use common sense in our lives. This type of control only breeds resentment, especially if the economy causes people to lose everything they own. We have to learn to use balance instead of living a life of reactive panic to every situation.
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