They are getting very worried about the European second wave:
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered a nighttime curfew for Paris and eight other French cities to contain the spread of Covid-19 after daily new infection rates reached record levels.
In a televised interview, Macron said residents of those cities – which combined are home to close to a third of the French population – would not be allowed to be outdoors between 9pm (1900 GMT) and 6am (0400 GMT) from Saturday, for a duration of at least four weeks, except for essential reasons.
"We have to act. We need to put a brake on the spread of the virus," Macron said, adding the measure would stop people visiting restaurants and private homes in the late evening and night.
"We are going to have to deal with this virus until at least the summer of 2021," Macron said, saying "all scientists" were in agreement.
Here's the reason why:
Echoing the concern of British doctors, Paris regional health director Aurelian Rousseau said hospital admissions could quickly spiral out of control.
He told BFM TV: “As with tidal waves, it might seem like we have time, but actually, in the end, it’s a race.
“We’re at that point where we’re entering a race against time.”
The 1,539 French Covid patients receiving intensive care is still almost five times lower than an April 8 high of 7,148, but also four times higher than a July 31 low of 371.
And as there are normally more people hospitalised with various illnesses in the autumn than in spring, health experts fear the hospital system could be overwhelmed if nothing is done to contain the second wave.
I wonder how armchair critic and obnoxious know-it-all Adam Creighton would deal with the situation? He seems never to acknowledge that the COVID problem is complicated, and that death rate is not the only issue. Has he ever even mentioned seriously the evidence of some recovered patients having on-going health problems?
Part of the political problem (continuing from the previous quote):
With countries from Spain to Ukraine posting record increases in recent days, authorities are struggling to devise restrictions that slow the spread while not pushing the economy over the edge and sparking public unrest.
Lower death and hospitalisation rates stoked an impression that the disease has lost its bite, sparking resistance to tougher restrictions.
2 comments:
The idea is to have good treatment and say goodbye to all this illegal locking people up. You saw how well Trump recovered when treatment was not outlawed right? He's back, energetic and even giddy with delight. Steroids may be making him manic. So he shows up at a rally and is dancing. He comes dancing in, he's doing so well. He's a fat old guy who might have been expected to die without treatment. Or have Covid for two months and complications for a long time thereafter. But he got treatment. If treatment denial were not part of the terrorist attack it wouldn't have been a very effective operation at all.
See this is the dumb left in power. They go mad. The blood goes to their heads and they start issuing curfews. This is idiocy. Failing to issue high-strength vitamin D3 they issue curfews instead. Lunatics. They cannot help themselves.
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