| SpokenTruth said: You should see Switzerland. Same population as Hong Kong. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/switzerland/ |
Just a small reminder. I live in Basel which borders France and Germany. Roughly 700 positive cases are reported as of now in the canton of Basel-City. However, roughly 300 of those cases are from bordering regions (Alsace, southern Baden-Württemberg). Same applies to Geneva (and possibly Lugano with Italians mixed in).
So the Swiss numbers are indeed extremely worrysome (when looked at cases per 1M inhabitants), but are too high in relation to "bare numbers" for the country. In hindsight, an early and brutal gutting the border to Italy would have helped a lot (around 50'000 italian workers, pretty much all of them from the hardest hit region in northern Italy cross(ed) the border to Switzerland every day/week).
Last edited by drkohler - on 24 March 2020
