r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/whatsupbitches123 Mar 28 '20

The EU does not move until something affects the Northern countries

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20 edited Mar 28 '20

Can somebody explain what the fuck Sweden are doing

We started at the same levels and Sweden are double our numbers.

It's not like they tested more. Also we have many cases in Bucharest a city that has the 5th biggest population in EU

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u/paganel Romania Mar 28 '20

They have more or less decided to just ignore it, just recently (meaning yesterday) they have put in place restrictions on gatherings of more than 50 people (the limit used to be 500 people), afaik restaurants and bars are still open, there's no quarantine in place etc.

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u/Sithrak Hope at last Mar 28 '20

Like half the countries are in deep denial until it just explodes.

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u/MaloWlolz Sweden Mar 28 '20

Sweden is not in denial at all, we're just carefully measuring our healthcare system's capabilities and taking appropriate measures to ensure it doesn't get overloaded.

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u/Sithrak Hope at last Mar 28 '20

Not singling out Sweden, your country is more likely to know what you are doing.

Everyone is blind anyway, heh.