Annually, some 20 million people from Greater Jakarta travel to their hometowns to celebrate Idul Fitri in a tradition called mudik (exodus). The tradition, public health experts say, could lead to massive COVID-19 contagion on Java, an island of 141 million people, where many regions have far worse healthcare systems than Jakarta....
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced that he would not officially ban people from traveling for the Idul Fitri holidays, ignoring warnings from public health experts that the consequences of failing to prevent people from leaving Jakarta, the epicenter of the outbreak in the country, could be dire.
“[The President] underlines that there is no official ban on people going on the mudik during the 2020 Idul Fitri holiday period. The travelers, however, must self-isolate for 14 days, will be given ‘people under observation’ [ODP] status, as per the World Health Organization health protocol, and will be monitored by the respective local administration,” presidential spokesman Fadjroel Rachman said in a statement on Thursday, shortly after a speech by the President on the matter.
State Secretary Pratikno, however, later clarified Fadjroel’s statement, saying that the President actually called on people to stay in the capital, though he did not categorically state that the President would ban the mudik.
More about the mudik tradition, due in May this year, which until now I knew nothing about.
Its always summer there. Hard to know if thats a big risk or not. See how useless at manufacturing we have become thanks to bad economics? If we could conjure masks as easily as we can conjure money supply we would be out of the woods by now. No domestic mask makers and you'd have to wonder if we can trust the tests they are giving us. Or whether they are proxy tests.
ReplyDelete"Australia doesn't need manufacturing" said John Humphries back in about 2007. Slightly less extreme versions of this idea were shared by the horrific Jewish troika of Davidson, Berg and Kirchner. Horrible that such people have been able to retard reason and good economics so long. But I don't think Sinclair is quite so bad as he used to be.
Ecuador seems to be a bit of an outlier. Its got the continual sun of course. And the media is telling us that the bodies are being dumped on the street. They are having to burn them almost on the spot. The deaths are horrible. But there could be a reason. They have been testing 5G since about November. They have had Chinese people there running tests for 5G.
ReplyDeletePeople. 5G. We don't need that smoke. She is no good for us. 5G breakout on all those cruise ships. I think an analysis of the data will show 5G is a virus force multiplier. Its not completely decisive. Otherwise South Korea wouldn't have been able to get things under control. But we don't need it even one little bit. There are healthy alternatives. Don't let 5G come near you. Its such a serious matter that in this one area it might be that destroying things in the middle of the night is actually justified.
He is a weak leader so no surprise
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