Coronavirus: Countries that relaxed lockdown are suffering second spikes – and Johnson’s talking about copying them
What a timing malfunction: on the day Boris Johnson tried to talk the UK into accepting his plan to relax lockdown restrictions, countries that have already made this choice reported increased infections and reimposed them.
Strangely enough, This Writer was only discussing the issue last week – with a guy who was saying that places like Germany have relaxed restrictions and nothing bad happened:
Calm down! You’re panicking. I trust the scientists! No issues in other countries that have eased lockdown! Media doesn’t help people’s hysteria such as yours
— Paul Richardson (@ricoforest30) May 7, 2020
And look at the news no increases in R in Germany, no increase in Austria and Denmark as examples
— Paul Richardson (@ricoforest30) May 7, 2020
Well, I don’t know about Austria and Denmark, but as for Germany…
New coronavirus infections are accelerating again in Germany just days after its leaders loosened social restrictions, raising concerns that the pandemic could once again slip out of control. The Robert Koch Institute for disease control said in a daily bulletin the number of people each sick person now infects – known as the reproduction rate, or R – had risen to 1.1.
Germany isn’t the only country having difficulties.
In South Korea…
The South Korean government issued an emergency order on Friday for the closure of all bars in Seoul after a single clubber infected at least 40 people and exposed over 1,900 more to the coronavirus. The closure is indefinite.
The authorities were forced to trace the contacts of the 29-year-old man, who has not been named, after his night out in the Itaewon district of Seoul – and have so far found at least forty people confirmed with the infection. The country had previously been free of domestic transmission of the virus after an extensive and rigorous programme of testing, tracing and isolating as recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
And in China…
An untraced coronavirus outbreak in a Chinese city near the Russian border and a spate of new cases in Wuhan has prompted fears of a fresh wave of infections in China.
On Sunday, Chinese authorities reclassified Shulan, a city near the Russian and North Korean borders, as high risk, after a cluster of cases connected to a woman with no known history of travel or exposure to the virus.
It came just a week after China designated all regions in the country as low or medium risk. On Sunday the country’s national health commission reported 17 new cases, its second day of a double-digit rise and its highest number in nearly two weeks.
These are all countries that were thought to have got their Covid-19 outbreaks under control – only to see them flare up again.
Now Boris Johnson is telling the UK everything is under control – just as the leaders of those other countries probably said to their citizens.
Considering what happened there, what do you think is going to happen here?
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Hello Mike, thought you’d find this interview interesting….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAtFBvKrVw&feature=youtu.be
I wouldn’t normally recommend watch the BBC but the programme on at 9pm tonight featured the ICU in Gwent. In the last few minutes the Dr spoke about the “next 2 peaks”. It is well worth watching that. I’d like to hear your views on the October projection……..?
Whenever Johnson makes a statement about anything, I find myself asking. Is this a decision that Boris has made or does it come from that Gollum look-a-like Cummings?
What will happen in little England will be a huge increase in the number of women and men contracting the coronovirus. However dictator boris will blame these women and men for not ‘staying alert’ and deliberately putting themselves at risk!
Remember avoiding the coronavirus is easy – just obey the fascist tories and get back to work! And continue to ignore the facts because despite more than 40,000 women and men have now died from the virus – this is irrelevant – it’s only statistics!