The evidence is growing every day on schools.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/18/french-minister-tells-of-risks-of-missing-school-as-more-pupils-return-covid-19
I didn't include Germany because essentially they're an outlier. There are other reasons why they've not been affected as bad, without going through every reason it's easier to just assume they were better prepared on any level you can think of.
Someone shared good article on this yesterday.
In a nutshell the anti government protest groups used their influence to organise the population into not spreading the virus. Everyone took it seriously because they suffered a high death toll from SARS so the locals already had experience and...
Cheers, there's probably a load of holes in the theory but it must be at least a contributing factor.
It's why I can't get on with the comparisons with New Zealand. All these places in Europe are within about a 1000km area containing a few hundred million people, thousands of international...
I'm convinced there's a link between infection rates and big airports. Netherlands, UK, Spain, Italy, France all have massive hub airports. Not sure about Belgium but they're sandwiched between CDG and Schiphol.
I wonder how many direct flights there are from the Far East to Greece and East...
I'm pretty sure we're also putting suspected vivid deaths in the official stats, and possibly France.
The ONS excess deaths is going to be closest to the true number but you can't make a comparison between that figure and the Belgium covid figures as it's not like for like.
Interestingly I...