These countries are reopening -- here's how they're doing it

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4. To the outside world, yes. It's a an iamge they like to project.

Here in Germany, we see another story altogether. In today's newspaper (Düsseldorf's Rheinische Post), it was announced that Düsseldorf could now test 800 people per day. With a population of around 650,000 just in the city and close to a million counting adjacent areas, that means that if we are lucky, we'll have tested everyone within three years. Maybe.

I don't know where that counts as "thorough and effective." Albania maybe? Mississippi? Here in Germany, it is considered scandalously inefficient.

When I got back from Spain four weeks ago, since Spain is considered one of Western Europe's most highly infected areas, I tried to get tested. I was shoved from one doctor to another to one government agency back to the doctor, and finally the health department said if you don't have sever symptoms, stay home and don't call again unless you are (practically) dead.