“Maybe it has helped that Greece has been in an almost constant [state of] crisis management since 2010 … we’ve been well past the kind of complacency the economies that have been doing well might allow themselves (…) A society that has undergone hardship for a prolonged period knows when personal sacrifice is necessary or inevitable.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/greece-flattened-coronavirus-curve-200407191043404.html