Has there been much corona phobia/irrational Corna fear in other countries?

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There seems so many people with this in the UK. People wanting to stay at home until there’s a vaccination others refusing to go back to work. This could cause more long term problems than coronavirus itself. How has it been managed in other countries?

I live in the NL. We didn't have the paranoia, the phobia, the lockdownstasi and reporting on neighbours. We have estimated around 9000 deaths (the reported number is close to 6000 but they are counting the unreported ones at 40%). We are a very densely populated country too.

One big difference here is we haven’t had the reporting of neighbors. I’m constantly surprised to see threads on here “my neighbors are having a barbecue. Should I report them?” And “The house 6 doors away from us have had a visitor this weekend. Would you report them?” That just doesn’t happen here, thank goodness. I couldn’t deal with being spied on whenever I leave the house and all the little keyboard warriors taking to the Internet to report my moves. We just let people do their thing.

I am still working and speaking to colleagues and clients I do occasionally hear things like “I’m not going to travel brilliant there is a vaccine” and other such things but not often. Our state has not been as heavily hit as others. Our death rate is around a fifth of that of the UK on a “deaths per million” (however the population density is much lower) but we all know the figures are being raised artificially to instill fear and compliance. It’s also in the wording. The UK reports “deaths of people who tested positive for COVID-19”. That’s nowhere the same thing as “people who died of COVID-19”. Here they include “assumed cases”. It’s just another shock tactic.