Meanwhile, Germany is reopening w/o virus spikes. How? They have a real leader.

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This is what real leadership looks like.

Personal note: In Sept. 2016, I was in a cab in Berlin. The driver was nervous about the US presidential elections and Trump. I confidently told him: "don't worry. Trump won't win".

Germany’s Reopening Offers Hope for a Semblance of Normal Life

BERLIN — Germany was a leader in the West in taking on the coronavirus pandemic, and then a leader in the calibrated restarting of public life. On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel had a hopeful message for the nation: The experiment was working.

The infection numbers, Ms. Merkel announced, were not just stable but lower than those reported two weeks ago. “We have reached the goal of slowing the spread of the virus, of protecting our health care system from being overwhelmed,” the chancellor said at a news conference.

Germany conducts about 142,000 coronavirus tests a day, and has begun several random antibody tests nationwide. New daily infections have been steadily falling, dropping below 1,000 last week for the first time in more than six weeks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/world/europe/germany-merkel-coronavirus-reopening.html

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