posted here 6 days ago when in my country there were about 350 infected, now it's risen up to 1.6k and our dumbass politicians still won't close schools and universtities, even though many times the first person in a region getting sick was a teacher, daycare employee. people are acting all fatalistic here, like everyone is like "yeah it would be sick if i'd get corona, two weeks off, hue hue." at least people don't hoard buy shit around me. but i won't be surprised if the spread actually worsens a lot. what pisses me off is stuff like this one couple that i know they just flew to italy for vacation despite the virus, under the assumption that it's everywhere now anyways. people only care about their own health, think they are alright, but they don't think about how they might spread.
send the kids home from school for a month, let people apply for a month off to take care of them at home during that time and give them some sort of emergency pandemic welfare payment or whatever. it wouldn't stop it completely but might be a way to slow it down so everyone falling seriously ill can get treated properly.
also there is a confirmed case at the workplace of a coworkers wife and she was told to self-isolate for the next two weeks to see if she develops any symptoms. but her husband/my coworker is supposed to still go to work(we work in gastronomy, lol). public health office actually said it's fine if he goes to work but he should self isolate everyday after work, too. which makes absolutely zero sense, considering we are preparing food and drinks for hundreds of people every day.
i feel like our government has a poor grasp on the situation and similar to the u.s. government is slow in responding and also mainly focused on the economic impact rather than public health. they seem to be leaving it largely to the affected commuinities how to deal with the outbreak and are slowly consolidating efforts to actually have enough medical equipment in stock when shit hits the fan after telling everybody to relax and that there'd be enough meds all around. merkel acually said herself she thinks that about 60-70% of the population will probably get sick before there will be any vaccine or antiviral meds and that that's that basically ala get over it.
it's like world: mi fraid a corona!!
germany: eh, fuck it, we're all doomed anyways. if you die to this, you are poosey
still not very afraid of getting sick myself but man, if this was like an actual killer, we'd all be so fucked because people just can't abide and shit. too many people running around with invincibility complexes.
Topic: Corona Virus. What's going on where you live? (Read 93150 times)