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The COVID-19 miracle: What happened in Slovakia? If Slovakia has had five deaths per one million inabitants so far, surely other European countries could have done that as well 09:09 Disinfecting the buses in Bratislava on March 9. (Source: TASR) Juraj Mesík is a global challenges and risks analyst with the novel coronavirus pandemic about to enter "season two", gearing up for a “kill en masse" programme, there is a brief respite to reflect on what has happened and prepare for what has yet to come: in slovakia, and all Europe, which has so far lost over 125,000 people to an entirely predictable - and predicted - pandemic. The failure of EU governments to protect the lives of Europe's citizens is nothing short of breathtaking. Yet, the only way political elites process their historic failure is to present thousands of unnecessary deaths in victorious narratives. Most of them can do it easily by turning their eyes RELATED ARTICLE to the "America First" and "UK Second" slovakia earns reputation as a success story in the coronavirus pandemic death tolls. But even in the United States, devastated by the epidemic beyond the wildest imagination of America's most hateful enemies, the commander-in-chief Read more → is presenting his true believers with his crazy little "epidemic is defeated" victory lap. What happened in Slovakia For obvious reasons, neither EU politicians nor the media in German, French, Italian, Spanish or English, are writing about countries that managed to protect their people. Sure, Taiwan and New Zealand, remote islands far, far away, are exceptions richly covered by the European and world press. But not slovakia, with almost exactly the same infection and death rates as New Zealand, despite being right in the centre of a continent engulfed by the pandemic. Why so? The answer is utterly and sadly simple: no one needs proof that tens of thousands of deaths in Europe could have been prevented. Yet that is exactly what slovakia's "COVID-19 miracle" proves. If slovaks could have had five deaths per million people by mid-June 2020, the technologically and culturally much more advanced Swedes, Belgians, Dutch, French, Italians, Germans, Swiss, even Britons and Americans, surely could have as well! Instead, they have 20 times (Germany), 70 times (USA), 100 times (Sweden) or 120-times (UK) more victims. That is not what Europe wants to hear. It RELATED ARTICLE Slovakia 10, Britain 0 Read more → is much easier to pretend the case does not exist or find comfort believing that slovak data are bogus. They are not. There may be minor underreporting of cases and deaths, yet it is probably less than what goes unreported in most other EU countries. So, what happened in slovakia? Even many locals have no clue, which provides fertile ground for a range of wild interpretations: there is no pandemic, all the pictures of mass graves and overflooded hospitals in Italy, New York and Brazil are just fake news. Slovakia survived intact because a less lethal strain of coronavirus spread here. The miracle was generated by Catholic priests flying over slovakia with holy relics, blessing slovakia and chasing the virus away. It worked so well during medieval plagues - why not in the 21st century? The list of conspiracy theories goes on. Civil society at work In fact, the slovak COVID-19 miracle is fundamentally a result of civil society work. Epidemics are like tumors. If diagnosed and treated early, cancer may become just a minor disturbance in a person's long life. If diagnosed slightly later, they become a deadly drama. Slovaks managed to diagnose the coronavirus pandemic as a mortal threat early on, and act proactively. But those were not politicians, who triggered early response and saved the country - it was civil society. Once they started moving, politicians just followed along. The men and women who saved the country - many unknown to the public - pushed against a huge reluctance rooted in institutions as much as online memes (it's just a flu! and Just don't panic!). Eventually, several people in positions of relative power decided to take responsibility and act. Four of them RELATED ARTICLE Second wave of coronavirus epidemic will surely come, slovakia is now better deserve to be named here: Comenius University's School of Medicine Dean Juraj Šteňo, Comenius University Rector Marek Števček, slovak University of Technology prepared Read more → Rector Miroslav Fikar and Bratislava Region Governor Juraj Droba. When they closed universities and secondary schools in the region on March 8, just two days after the first case was diagnosed in slovakia, they prevented the further spread of the disease from the capital to the rest of the country, and pushed national politicians to act. There is hope slovak politicians holding key posts at that point were not prepared any better than their European counterparts. Research by journalism student Tereza Szalaiová has shown that March 9 was the first mention of the coronavirus by then opposition leader, soon-to-be PM Igor Matovič; while leader of the ruling coalition Freedom and Solidarity (Sas) party, Richard Sulík, mentioned it on March 11; leader of the ruling coalition Sme Rodina party, Boris Kollár, on March 12; and leader of the Za Ludí coalition party and former president, Andrej Kiska, on March 13. Until then, the coronavirus simply did not reach the minds of people who were to lead the country through the pandemic. Without decisive actions taken by civil society actors, slovakia would possibly have lost weeks when one day was worth the price of gold. Or, more precisely, human lives. Could that have been done in other countries of the EU and the world? In many, certainly yes. Is the result sustainable? Maybe. Still, we know much better what needs to be done in order to prevent COVID-19 from spreading and reduce the loss of life now compared to what we knew in February or March. That is our hope for the next months and years. RELATED ARTICLE What Slovakia and New Zealand (don't) have in common Read more → IMAI
The COVID-19 miracle: What happened in Slovakia? If Slovakia has had five deaths per one million inabitants so far, surely other European countries could have done that as well 09:09 Disinfecting the buses in Bratislava on March 9. (Source: TASR) Juraj Mesík is a global challenges and risks analyst with the novel coronavirus pandemic about to enter "season two", gearing up for a “kill en masse" programme, there is a brief respite to reflect on what has happened and prepare for what has yet to come: in slovakia, and all Europe, which has so far lost over 125,000 people to an entirely predictable - and predicted - pandemic. The failure of EU governments to protect the lives of Europe's citizens is nothing short of breathtaking. Yet, the only way political elites process their historic failure is to present thousands of unnecessary deaths in victorious narratives. Most of them can do it easily by turning their eyes RELATED ARTICLE to the "America First" and "UK Second" slovakia earns reputation as a success story in the coronavirus pandemic death tolls. But even in the United States, devastated by the epidemic beyond the wildest imagination of America's most hateful enemies, the commander-in-chief Read more → is presenting his true believers with his crazy little "epidemic is defeated" victory lap. What happened in Slovakia For obvious reasons, neither EU politicians nor the media in German, French, Italian, Spanish or English, are writing about countries that managed to protect their people. Sure, Taiwan and New Zealand, remote islands far, far away, are exceptions richly covered by the European and world press. But not slovakia, with almost exactly the same infection and death rates as New Zealand, despite being right in the centre of a continent engulfed by the pandemic. Why so? The answer is utterly and sadly simple: no one needs proof that tens of thousands of deaths in Europe could have been prevented. Yet that is exactly what slovakia's "COVID-19 miracle" proves. If slovaks could have had five deaths per million people by mid-June 2020, the technologically and culturally much more advanced Swedes, Belgians, Dutch, French, Italians, Germans, Swiss, even Britons and Americans, surely could have as well! Instead, they have 20 times (Germany), 70 times (USA), 100 times (Sweden) or 120-times (UK) more victims. That is not what Europe wants to hear. It RELATED ARTICLE Slovakia 10, Britain 0 Read more → is much easier to pretend the case does not exist or find comfort believing that slovak data are bogus. They are not. There may be minor underreporting of cases and deaths, yet it is probably less than what goes unreported in most other EU countries. So, what happened in slovakia? Even many locals have no clue, which provides fertile ground for a range of wild interpretations: there is no pandemic, all the pictures of mass graves and overflooded hospitals in Italy, New York and Brazil are just fake news. Slovakia survived intact because a less lethal strain of coronavirus spread here. The miracle was generated by Catholic priests flying over slovakia with holy relics, blessing slovakia and chasing the virus away. It worked so well during medieval plagues - why not in the 21st century? The list of conspiracy theories goes on. Civil society at work In fact, the slovak COVID-19 miracle is fundamentally a result of civil society work. Epidemics are like tumors. If diagnosed and treated early, cancer may become just a minor disturbance in a person's long life. If diagnosed slightly later, they become a deadly drama. Slovaks managed to diagnose the coronavirus pandemic as a mortal threat early on, and act proactively. But those were not politicians, who triggered early response and saved the country - it was civil society. Once they started moving, politicians just followed along. The men and women who saved the country - many unknown to the public - pushed against a huge reluctance rooted in institutions as much as online memes (it's just a flu! and Just don't panic!). Eventually, several people in positions of relative power decided to take responsibility and act. Four of them RELATED ARTICLE Second wave of coronavirus epidemic will surely come, slovakia is now better deserve to be named here: Comenius University's School of Medicine Dean Juraj Šteňo, Comenius University Rector Marek Števček, slovak University of Technology prepared Read more → Rector Miroslav Fikar and Bratislava Region Governor Juraj Droba. When they closed universities and secondary schools in the region on March 8, just two days after the first case was diagnosed in slovakia, they prevented the further spread of the disease from the capital to the rest of the country, and pushed national politicians to act. There is hope slovak politicians holding key posts at that point were not prepared any better than their European counterparts. Research by journalism student Tereza Szalaiová has shown that March 9 was the first mention of the coronavirus by then opposition leader, soon-to-be PM Igor Matovič; while leader of the ruling coalition Freedom and Solidarity (Sas) party, Richard Sulík, mentioned it on March 11; leader of the ruling coalition Sme Rodina party, Boris Kollár, on March 12; and leader of the Za Ludí coalition party and former president, Andrej Kiska, on March 13. Until then, the coronavirus simply did not reach the minds of people who were to lead the country through the pandemic. Without decisive actions taken by civil society actors, slovakia would possibly have lost weeks when one day was worth the price of gold. Or, more precisely, human lives. Could that have been done in other countries of the EU and the world? In many, certainly yes. Is the result sustainable? Maybe. Still, we know much better what needs to be done in order to prevent COVID-19 from spreading and reduce the loss of life now compared to what we knew in February or March. That is our hope for the next months and years. RELATED ARTICLE What Slovakia and New Zealand (don't) have in common Read more → IMAI

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working from home

Working from home.... adidos
Working from home.... adidos

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tied up children working form home /r/badparents

middle finger to the parks

Yesterday at 3:37 PM • Who else thinks continued park closures are going overboard especially while park employees are mowing the grass l'm not the only one who has an opinion about this... NO CAUTION CAUTION PLAYGROUND CLOSED TO HELP SLOW THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 86 NULLN CAU UIUN
Yesterday at 3:37 PM • Who else thinks continued park closures are going overboard especially while park employees are mowing the grass l'm not the only one who has an opinion about this... NO CAUTION CAUTION PLAYGROUND CLOSED TO HELP SLOW THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 86 NULLN CAU UIUN

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toddler middle finger park closures /r/badparents

titanic v. the ark

Mattl As we listen to epidemiologists, it's good to remember that the Titanic was built by experts, the Ark by amateurs. 2:05 PM May 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone 374 Retweets 2.7K Likes
Mattl As we listen to epidemiologists, it's good to remember that the Titanic was built by experts, the Ark by amateurs. 2:05 PM May 20, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone 374 Retweets 2.7K Likes

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noah's ark biblical titanic flood /r/facebookscience

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7:45 PM · Jun 18, 2020·TweetDeck 22.5K Retweets 6.3K Likes
7:45 PM · Jun 18, 2020·TweetDeck 22.5K Retweets 6.3K Likes

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Captain America COVID conspiracy theory

From the 2011 film, "Captain America: The First Avenger". Behind his right shoulder, a Corona Beer, & on his left, the image of a "coronavirus" in New York City... Let that sink in.. Files From The Conspiratorium DESBC Cm
From the 2011 film, "Captain America: The First Avenger". Behind his right shoulder, a Corona Beer, & on his left, the image of a "coronavirus" in New York City... Let that sink in.. Files From The Conspiratorium DESBC Cm

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vacation time

* covid-19 cases reaches 1000 * People : Panik * covid-19 cases reaches 7M * Реople:
* covid-19 cases reaches 1000 * People : Panik * covid-19 cases reaches 7M * Реople:

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awfully quiet

gavin atwal @gavinatwal These "I make $4000 a week working from home and you can too!" mfs awfully quiet now
gavin atwal @gavinatwal These "I make $4000 a week working from home and you can too!" mfs awfully quiet now

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4000 a week quiet quarantine /r/antimlm

I will fight you

John David Glaude @obese_to_beast Please don't use COVID-19 as a way to sell your diet plans or supplements as a way to "boost immunity" I will fight you 8:10 AM · 3/13/20 from Santee, CA · Twitter for iPhone uli View Tweet activity 5 Retweets 31 Likes >
John David Glaude @obese_to_beast Please don't use COVID-19 as a way to sell your diet plans or supplements as a way to "boost immunity" I will fight you 8:10 AM · 3/13/20 from Santee, CA · Twitter for iPhone uli View Tweet activity 5 Retweets 31 Likes >

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diet plans supplements /r/antimlm

corona beer

Wait a minute April 17, 2012 Corona beer taste like the flu in a bottle Imao.
Wait a minute April 17, 2012 Corona beer taste like the flu in a bottle Imao.

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corona beer tastes like flu /r/agedlikewine

TIME Magazine

TIME SUBSCRIBE MAY 15. 2017 TIME WARNING: WE ARE NOT READY FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC SCIENCE KNOWS HOW TO FIGHT AN OUTBREAK- BUT POLICY STILL GETS IN THE WAY BY BRYAN WALSH HOW TO KEEP THE WORLD SAFE BY BILL GATES Image by Henrik5000-Getty Images HEALTH DISEASE The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic Bryan Walsh @bryanrwalsh SHARE May 4, 2017 MORE
TIME SUBSCRIBE MAY 15. 2017 TIME WARNING: WE ARE NOT READY FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC SCIENCE KNOWS HOW TO FIGHT AN OUTBREAK- BUT POLICY STILL GETS IN THE WAY BY BRYAN WALSH HOW TO KEEP THE WORLD SAFE BY BILL GATES Image by Henrik5000-Getty Images HEALTH DISEASE The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic Bryan Walsh @bryanrwalsh SHARE May 4, 2017 MORE

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time magazine 2017 pandemic /r/agedlikewine

leaving office

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

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leaving office social distancing /r/agedlikewine

creative payment method

This meme was taken from a list of "35 Memes":https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/47-memes-to-ensure-complete-and-total-satisfaction/86289317/ via the site "ebaumsworld":https://www.ebaumsworld.com/.
This meme was taken from a list of "35 Memes":https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/47-memes-to-ensure-complete-and-total-satisfaction/86289317/ via the site "ebaumsworld":https://www.ebaumsworld.com/.

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unsave the date

Heyave the Eat DAVID + KYLEE JULY 11, 2020 AÇANCELLED
Heyave the Eat DAVID + KYLEE JULY 11, 2020 AÇANCELLED

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unsave the date wedding cancelled /r/wellthatsucks

Defeat the Corona witch

How to protect yourself from Corona virus: 412 初 X Wrong V Correct
How to protect yourself from Corona virus: 412 初 X Wrong V Correct

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The end of Susana Distancia

"Susana Distancia No More" is an Hector Bustamante work, an homage of The Amazing Spider-Man #50, by John Romita, Sr. The image is an critic of the end of the national day of healthy distance, an program to educate the population to avoid crowds and places with a large influx of people, amid the worst of the pandemic in Mexico.
"Susana Distancia No More" is an Hector Bustamante work, an homage of The Amazing Spider-Man #50, by John Romita, Sr. The image is an critic of the end of the national day of healthy distance, an program to educate the population to avoid crowds and places with a large influx of people, amid the worst of the pandemic in Mexico.

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