Keeping the quarantine versus adding ICUs

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If they're doing it wrong, then can you give an example of who're doing it better?

In terms of rapid containment, few cases / deaths, and faster exit from lockdown/ return to business: Uruguay. Australia. New Zealand. Singapore. Austria. Czech Republic. Norway. Korea. Japan. Taiwan. Denmark. Israel. UAE. Greece. Malaysia. Portugal. Bulgaria. Thailand. Philippines. Hong Kong SAR. Costa Rica. Paraguay. To name a few.

In terms of rapid containment and faster exit from lockdown / return to business: Germany, France, Spain, Italy etc.



The key thing I am looking at is the timeline at the bottom. Argentina often forgets that time is a thing and catches up with you, with interest, at the end.

Regarding the economy, this chapter is just starting to be written. While true that all countries are seeing a drop, the critical differences are recovery projections and structural ability to recover (e.g. short term unemployment vs. long term unemployment due to unskilled or untransferable workforce, access to capital vs. no access to capital.)

The landscape on the street in Europe, Asia/ Oceania is no where near as bleak in terms of permanently closed businesses. While there has been a spike in unemployment, this is mostly due to downsizing, meaning that most employers are still in business and will be able to hire again when growth starts to rebound. Given employers in Argentine are not able to downsize, many are at risk of suffocation or veering off into the "black" market to escape regulation - meaning in either scenario the employee looses at the end of the day, unless they are lucky enough to be employed by a "rich" company that can weather the storm. Those companies that don't make it need time and money to replace or rebuild - given the current Argentine reality, this is the achilles heel.