The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member countries have pulled together to fund the purchase of tens of millions of vaccines and devised a massive recovery fund to resuscitate economies ravaged by the pandemic.
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Beating COVID would have mean actually taking it seriously, maybe eradicting it, atleast having the vast majority of people vaccinate, mask and properly ventilate.

    By all of those metrics, save for total eradication of course, Europe largely DID beat covid, or rather the most critical phase of it, unlike the US.

    Last I checked, covid infections are below pre-covid flu infections in most of Europe, as is seasonal flu. Again, unlike the US.

    If anything we’re worse than the start of the pandemic now

    The entire world is, due mainly to the by now worldwide resurgence of fascism.

    A third of europe believes in anti-vaccine conspiracies.

    See above.