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Quarantine diaries | Vaasa: Finland’s spirit of ‘sisu’
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Even as the mood darkens, Finns are counting on their spirit of stoic determination and tenacity to get through the ongoing pandemic When two paramedics in hazmat suits came in an ambulance to carry an elderly patient from his home after he showed symptoms of being infected by the coronavirus, the old man thought two astronauts had come to take him away.
Although Finland has recorded (at the time of writing) more than 600 cases and one death due to the devastating virus, the small coastal city of Vaasa that I live in has largely been uninfected—just one official case of an infected person.
Vaasa has a population of around 67,000 but it has two universities and serves as the Finnish headquarters of a couple of large engineering
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