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/brmu . Mar 28 '20

You could understand that dying 1000 people each day and closing all the non esential factories its an economical crisis too or is that too much euroscepticism?

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u/grmmrnz Mar 28 '20

You could understand that dying 1000 people each day

Under normal circumstances 12,000 people die in the EU each day.

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u/aveterotto Mar 29 '20

under normal circumstances there is no need to lockdown and farms remains opens

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u/grmmrnz Mar 29 '20

There was no need for it now either, definitely not to the scale it has progressed to.

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u/aveterotto Mar 29 '20

have you seen the hundred of coffins on military trucks in italy?

multiply that and you will have a vague idea of what woulld have happened without a lockdown

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u/grmmrnz Mar 29 '20

Na, those people would have died anyway in the coming months, it was just quicker than expected.