In Denmark, it was quite obvious from the very beginning where the virus came from and how it got here. All you needed to do was combine a couple of statistics:
1) The first people infected with the virus had been to Austria or Italy, the vast majority had been skiing in Austria.
2) The age group with the most people tested positive: 40-49 (that's still the case!).
3) The three areas with the most people tested positive for coronavirus are 1) Gentofte, 2) Rudersdal and 3) Frederiksberg, Copenhagen - areas with above-average incomes. (I live in Frederiksberg.)
The three age groups with most hospitalizations, however, are 1) 80+, 2) 70-79, and 3) 60-69, i.e. not the people who typically go skiing in the Alps. (However, a few in their 60s did!)
And when you look at the rest of the world, a similar pattern emerges:
Eastern Australia's coronavirus hotspots revealed: map shows affluent Sydney suburbs hard hit (The Guardian, March 27, 2020)
Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’ (NYT, March 23, 2020)
Westport, Connecticut, Is the Latest Fraught Meeting Point of Coronavirus and Wealth (Vanity Fair, March 24, 2020)
The Australians probably didn't go skiing in the Alps, but apart from that it seems to be similar to the other cases.
An excellent CNN article describes how business considerations (the tourist trade) helped spread the virus from Austria to Northern Europe:
Americans may consider how Florida welcomed spring breakers for similar reasons.
In Denmark, we also have idiots who claim that immigrants brought the virus into the country, but they didn't. The areas of Denmark with the lowest number of people infected with the virus are typically the areas with the most immigrants. And immigrants don't go skiing in the Alps. They visit their countries of origin. (Not a single case in Denmark is directly related to China.)
It might be tempting for some Danes to call it the Austrian virus or the virus from Tyrol, but that's not really the point: Austria as such didn't spread the virus to the rest of Europe. Business considerations did! And affluent tourists were the carriers of the capitalist virus.
1) The first people infected with the virus had been to Austria or Italy, the vast majority had been skiing in Austria.
2) The age group with the most people tested positive: 40-49 (that's still the case!).
3) The three areas with the most people tested positive for coronavirus are 1) Gentofte, 2) Rudersdal and 3) Frederiksberg, Copenhagen - areas with above-average incomes. (I live in Frederiksberg.)
The three age groups with most hospitalizations, however, are 1) 80+, 2) 70-79, and 3) 60-69, i.e. not the people who typically go skiing in the Alps. (However, a few in their 60s did!)
And when you look at the rest of the world, a similar pattern emerges:
Eastern Australia's coronavirus hotspots revealed: map shows affluent Sydney suburbs hard hit (The Guardian, March 27, 2020)
Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’ (NYT, March 23, 2020)
Westport, Connecticut, Is the Latest Fraught Meeting Point of Coronavirus and Wealth (Vanity Fair, March 24, 2020)
The Australians probably didn't go skiing in the Alps, but apart from that it seems to be similar to the other cases.
An excellent CNN article describes how business considerations (the tourist trade) helped spread the virus from Austria to Northern Europe:
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Despite an official warning from the Icelandic government on March 4 that a group of its nationals had contracted coronavirus in Ischgl, Austrian authorities allowed ski tourism -- and the partying that goes with it -- to continue for another nine days before fully quarantining the resort on March 13. Bars in Ischgl were closed on March 10. Even after a bartender tested positive for the virus, the medical authority of Tyrol -- where ski tourism is one of the biggest economic drivers -- reiterated in a press release on March 8 that there was "no reason to worry." How an Austrian ski resort helped coronavirus spread across Europe (CNN, March 24, 2020) |
In Denmark, we also have idiots who claim that immigrants brought the virus into the country, but they didn't. The areas of Denmark with the lowest number of people infected with the virus are typically the areas with the most immigrants. And immigrants don't go skiing in the Alps. They visit their countries of origin. (Not a single case in Denmark is directly related to China.)
It might be tempting for some Danes to call it the Austrian virus or the virus from Tyrol, but that's not really the point: Austria as such didn't spread the virus to the rest of Europe. Business considerations did! And affluent tourists were the carriers of the capitalist virus.
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