There has been so many bad news around the world and about Finland, so here is time for some good news (most picked from Finnfacts):
Finland remains world’s least fragile country article tells that for the sixth year in a row Finland has been recognised as the least fragile country in the global Fragile State Index published by the Fund for Peace. Finland was the only country in the world to be deemed very sustainable this year.
Urban air in Finland among world’s cleanest article tells that the World Health Organisation has found the Finnish town of Muonio to have some of the cleanest air of the world’s urban centres. The WHO Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database has been updated after studying the city and academic records of nearly 3 000 cities in 103 countries.
Finland among world’s most prosperous countries article tells that 2015 Prosperity Index has ranked Finland in ninth place out of 142 countries worldwide.
Finland ranks 4th in global competitiveness article tells that Finland ranks fourth in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2014–15.
Finland is number one ICT country and Finland’s ICT investments have world’s greatest impact
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Op-Ed: California’s burning; Americans are dying. I’m safe in Finland. Why would I ever go home?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-25/finland-coronavirus-pandemic-california-fire
In Finland, COVID-19 has been largely contained since May. The people trust their government politicians and believe in science. No one I know here can believe that Americans would turn wearing a mask into a political litmus test. The social safety net is tightly woven: Finns aren’t homeless on the streets; they aren’t shooting one another on the barricades.
Finland recently released an app that lets us know if we have encountered someone who tested positive, and it says something about my adopted country that 20% of the population signed up on the first day. Online data show the seven-day average of new cases per million in Finland at about 14; in the U.S., it’s about 130.
We eat out (on terraces), get haircuts, visit museums. We worry about a second wave. But what this country did once to flatten the curve, it will doubtlessly do again if the number of new cases rises markedly.