What Have We Learned From WuFlu?

For John, BLUF:  As we do our "Lessons Learned for COVID-19 we need to examine it in many. dimensions, to include seeing how different micro-cultures impact their own successes and failures with the Coronavirus.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Results of Europe’s Lockdown Experiment Are In

From Bloomberg, by Columnist Elaine He, 20 May 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

With governments across Europe reopening their economies for business, it’s a good moment to look back on the different paths taken to control Covid-19 outbreaks to try to see how effective they were.

The chart below shows the relative severity of Europe’s restrictions based on work done by the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, which tracks a range of measures and scores how stringent they’ve been each step of the way.

It is still early days, but it is not to early to begin thinking about the lessons to be drawn from this Pandemic.  We may have gotten some things wrong, but we probably acted approximately right, given what we know.  Mistakes were made, for sure.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff