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Yes. They are monitoring it and reacting appropriately. If it doesn’t work they will pull back and try again.

But their actions are not being dictated by the situation in Italy or France. Likewise, Montana should not take action based on what is going on in New York.




Except that "pull back and try again" is a lot worse than just keeping the lockdown in the first place. Both economically and from a disease prevalence POV.


I trust Angela Merkel to not fuck it up.




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