Plague in Vienna , now COVID-19

There is a plague memorial just in the center of Graben - the center of Vienna. It has to remind everyone about the losses 350 years ago. Judging by the behavior of Vienneses and visitors, it does not. The COVID-19 pandemic was considered with a laugh by the younger population and immobilizing fear by political authorities. The former practically ignored social distancing and the latter are still dead scared of any decision - they want to fly between droplets of heavy rain. It does not work, as expected (European politicians is a very specific type of psychic anomaly). The largest number of new COVID-19 cases per day (at the testing rate is about half of that in the USA, UK, and Russia) was ~9,500. When scaled to the US population (330/9 =6.67), this rate is 350,000 per day. This is much much higher than the pick value in the USA.