Argentina locked down early and hard. Now cases are exploding

[MilHojas]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronavirus-argentina-million-quarantine-lockdown/2020/10/26/65eefde2-149c-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html

So much sacrifice, Bonicalzi sometimes thinks, and for what? The South American country has become one of the coronavirus’s most explosive breeding grounds.

 

[Renzi]

It's just a little flu. Nothing that orange juice, prayer, and chicken soup can't cure.

A brief history of chicken soup, the ‘Jewish penicillin’

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www.haaretz.com

 

[Greg S]

My sister, 60, and a friend, 66, both had it. Each recovered in less than a week. At present, who’s getting it in Recoleta and Palermo Chico/Botanico? Is it confined primarily to the poor and elderly?

 

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

My sister, 60, and a friend, 66, both had it. Each recovered in less than a week. At present, who’s getting it in Recoleta and Palermo Chico/Botanico? Is it confined primarily to the poor and elderly?

I doubt they have that kind of statistics they can barely tell who’s had it or not.

 

[UK Man]

Agentina probably wanted to stay on the right side of those who carry some clout....for when that time comes they go begging to be bailed out again.

 

[artisans]

I'm embarassed to say I'm a subscriber and regular reader of the Washington Post right now. A newspaper which 'gets it right' 9 out of 10 in my opinion. This article, to me, is just a piece of poorly informed trash and misleading in many ways. As if written by someone at Washington D.C. looked by telescope at that very distant land across the equator. And coming from a country where the virus and how to manage it is, was and has been a disaster. And not a mention of the improving conditions in Buenos Aires Capital Federal. Ufff!

 

[elhombresinnombre]

I'm embarassed to say I'm a subscriber and regular reader of the Washington Post right now. A newspaper which 'gets it right' 9 out of 10 in my opinion. This article, to me, is just a piece of poorly informed trash and misleading in many ways. As if written by someone at Washington D.C. looked by telescope at that very distant land across the equator. And coming from a country where the virus and how to manage it is, was and has been a disaster. And not a mention of the improving conditions in Buenos Aires Capital Federal. Ufff!

I'll see your Washington Post and raise you The Daily Telegraph!

Psychological trauma of longest lockdown mounts in Buenos Aires as Argentina passes 1m cases

More than 200 days into a strict quarantine, citizens of the coastal city have seen a five-fold increase in depression

www.telegraph.co.uk

Look at the dateline. The article starts by calling Buenos Aires a coastal city and just gets worse from there

Then there was this from a few weeks ago:

Argentina offers irrefutable evidence that long lockdowns spell disaster

The world’s longest lockdown has not saved Argentina from coronavirus misery as cases and daily deaths skyrocket

www.telegraph.co.uk

Ignore the title: this article doesn't prove that at all. But a sentence buried in the middle about how Argentina might have beaten off the virus if the country hadn't been full of Argentinians does seem to have a ring of truth.

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[Ceviche]

Really, the thing is that if there is no social life, cultural activities, night life - Buenos Aires really becomes a dead city.

 

[Renzi]

I'm embarassed to say I'm a subscriber and regular reader of the Washington Post right now. A newspaper which 'gets it right' 9 out of 10 in my opinion. This article, to me, is just a piece of poorly informed trash and misleading in many ways. As if written by someone at Washington D.C. looked by telescope at that very distant land across the equator. And coming from a country where the virus and how to manage it is, was and has been a disaster. And not a mention of the improving conditions in Buenos Aires Capital Federal. Ufff!

I think there's a story somewhere in that article, but it shouldn't be up to the reader to find it. The unfortunate truth is that Latin America might as well be the dark side of the moon as far as the US media is concerned, unless the story is about drug trafficking, immigration, or Venezuela. I generaly like WaPo and NYT but their coverage of the region tends to be very sloppy and uninformed, and most of their articles (like this one) read like they were written by bored interns who learned about the region from Wikipedia.

 

[Ceviche]

I only read 3 newspapers and they give all info I require about anywhere on the planet.

FT.com
WSJ.com
Businessinsider.com

All require subscriptions..Not into "behind firewall etc"