Chronic underinvestment in medicine @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion
Image: Monumental stone relief of a fish-garbed figure from the Temple of Ninurta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninurta) in the Assyrian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria) city of Kalhu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalhu) , believed by some experts to be a representation of an āšipu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asipu) , or exorcist-priest, who functioned as a kind of healer and primitive doctor[ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine#cite_note-McIntosh2005-7) . Joseph Sternberg, WSJ, in re: A blunt warning from the US: no European visitors except from the UK; this is a virus more severe than the familiar flu, so it’s truth-telling from officials. The UK won’t escape this, but it won't be as widespread there as elsewhere. In Europe, chronic under-investment in hospitals and hiring doctors. UK and Italy are more dependent on financing directly from the govt; than, e.g., France and Germany; direct checks.