Overwhelming focus on opening things up, when the summer lull in cases was broadly similar to peak levels seen in Asian success stories. Obsession with keeping travel going, no central quarantine, failure to learn much from places with successful tracing systems. 
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1321216336740208647
Europe is massively disadvantaged in the same way that the U.S. is, by a lot of physical economic networks crossing varied public health jurisdictions, but yeah they messed it up good and proper on top of that too.
This is Korea and France at an almost identical number of cases nationally.
I feel like this is the sort of thing a child could understand better than a lot of policy-focused adults. They started encouraging people to do things where you might catch a virus while a whole bunch of people still had a virus.
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