Timelapse showing the spread of Covid in Europe from Jan 2020 until Nov 2021 (Source: W.H.O. Europe)

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1. This is great visualization!

   If I understand correctly it shows total incidence in the region, is that correct? If that’s the case, it could be better if the number of cases was shown in relation to population.

2. Look at the amount of time the UK is completely black, it goes to show how poorly the Government has dealt with it

3. The fact that you can see the borders clearly sometimes is oddly uncanny.

4. its definately seasonal

5. Post this to people who say how great Sweden handled the pandemic. Sweden was mostly black when Europe was orange/red. I’m really tired of lockdown skeptics always say look how well Sweden did.

6. You can actually watch the Isle of Man opening and shutting its borders.(it’s in between England and Ireland)

7. Kind of sad that right now it’s at it’s peak with the most people vaccinated.

8. data is beautiful

9. I wonder why 400 cases per 7 days was selected as the lowermost threshold to extremely bad. That’s saying “this country is seeing 400 cases per week – things are as bad as it gets here”. However I believe since the start of this year many countries have seen periods with the daily incidence of thousands and even tens of thousands, so wouldn’t it be important to distinguish between places with 400 cases/week VS 10000 cases/week VS 40000 cases/week? I don’t know if visualisation would have been vastly different – my intuition is yes, it wouldn’t get nearly as black, but I don’t have enough data myself to argue that. At the same time this weird threshold won’t let me take this data seriously, bcs I can’t shake the feeling of being _subtly_ manipulated.

   Anyone with a good insight into this data who can explain where my intuitions are wrong?