Veri
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'masked' form of herd-strategy, hahah pun intended or? Anyway I'm from Belgium and honestly a lot of "our people" are going on holidays and have a pretty relaxed attitude. Sure, many folks I know take it very seriously but I'm afraid a big part of the population mostly thinks in a "I do me, you do you" kind of way. Once our numbers got better I think the easing of the measures was way too optimistic. But you can't keep people in lockdown either.. it's a slippery slope. I hope as summer advances our numbers go down again. Belgians should try and think more of the big picture, rather than their "summer holidays" right now, is that really the most important?Belgium is an interesting outlier. In terms of cases/deaths per million pop they are doing very bad. Might just be "world champions".
I haven't heard mentions of an official herd-strategy but according to my contacts there, the quarantine was quite 'flexible'. Not much enforcement for masks, small bars still open, small concerts, etc. If my contacts are any indication, people had a very relaxed "don't care" attitude. All that would add up to a 'masked' form of herd-strategy.
Or maybe it's about different reporting rules like @Racheski mentioned.
Any belgians around here?
But anyway, it is a certainty our numbers are inflated because we do a lot of testing and count a lot of if not most deaths in elderly/retirement homes as corona victims. From the start our politicians wanted transparency rather than obscuration and now we've become the face of bad corona measures in international news but honestly, it is more complicated than that. Can't compare one country to another 1:1.