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Originally Posted by davem4616
hate to say this...and I am not trying to make you wrong...because I've liked many of your posts...but don't you sound like Hillary Clinton "What difference does it make?" LOL
okay so you're in the density camp...the country of Denmark as a whole is no where near as dense as NYC
the difference in the ingrained culture,,, the difference in the human behavior and the difference in the number of people flying into the US from Europe vs. flying into Denmark make all the difference...
Danish people are VERY different from folks in the US....if you had you spent any time there among them you would immediately know this
your professional (non military) career may not have allowed you the opportunity to spend much time overseas, or in an international role...if it had, you'd most likely see this the same way I do (again...not a knock)
Europeans see the world very differently than we do in the US
we've spent a lot of time in Europe for business and for pleasure...I had many Europeans reporting directly to me for decades....they don't look thru life with the same lenses that we do
that said
Denmark has a population of 5.8 million...the US has 328.2
Denmark consists of 16.6 square miles...the US 3.8 Million
Denmark has 4 international airports...the US has 149
maybe comparing Denmark to Rhode Island or Delaware might make sense from some vectors...but don't come back to me with square miles...as I'm just using this as an example for talking points and haven't compared the land mass
I'm all for learning from what Denmark is experiencing....but please, don't try to equate
Denmark to the US...that's just not realistic
in closing...I choose not to continue an online debate with you on this....I've said my piece and I'm totally willing to honor what you choose to believe...and we'll leave it at that
stay safe and continue to enjoy the good life
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I'm not in the density camp, it's a proven fact that higher density produces more infections in a pandemic. See NYC data. All the US states are choosing different strategies, continue lockdown, limited reopening etc. So I am not comparing Denmark to the whole country, just to various reopening strategies here. I am not "choosing to believe "something, just looking at data on a reopening process.
I've been to 75 foreign countries, including Denmark.
The virus doesn't care what "lens" you look at life through. It infects you the same way all over the world. The purpose of my post was to look at a country that reopened a month ago to see how they are doing. So far so good. I hope it stays that way.