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OT: what would you say Germany did wrong? by ravenium

(Sorry, I was trying to find a way to phrase that and went ambiguous for the “wait, what?” With a small dose of awkward humor)

Those of us in the US are well versed in how wildly the individual states over or under corrected in 2020 based on a lack of good federal guidance. Hell, even if we’d had a competent administration, we’re not set up for a strong federal response with 50 state health models. As a result you have people championing Florida or California or whatever and I think neither angle had it completely right.

We all read stories (and your reports!) in 2020 about Germany’s methods - boosting businesses to pay employees (rather than haphazardly trying to make them apply), having consistent rules that changed on the best available data and people who actually followed them.

But certainly nobody bats 1.000, right? What are some things that could have gone better over there?