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RE: No, Wiping Doesn't Stop a Virus
I'm a borderline hoarder--I have a box full of socks that haven't seen a match in years. Not worried about that part now!
I'm a borderline hoarder--I have a box full of socks that haven't seen a match in years. Not worried about that part now!
Well, I'm not quiet sure if you understood what I meant to say... :)
But never mind. Jokes aside, what is the situation in your region? On TV they only talk about the big cities - and what they say is not very encouraging.
So what's it like in the country side? Do you also have restrictions, closed schools and shops and all that? And how is it going for the emergency services?
Around here its still not too bad, though a lot of places are shut down and people are told to avoid coming in contact with others. But people still are out in the street, the busses are still going. Compared to other countries (like Italy) we are not doing so bad, I guess. Lets see how it goes in the next weeks.
It's pretty much the same precautions here. The necessary stuff is open, but most everything else is closed--we don't have as many detected cases as the big city, but then we don't have the population, either. Still, it doesn't seem to be spreading as quickly, mostly because we do have some elbow room, here.
Our emergency services aren't hit too badly yet, but there has been an increase in ambulance calls. It takes awhile to get an ambulance back into service, because they're disinfecting them even more than they were already doing, no to mention going above and beyond in cleaning themselves. Just as we have fewer people, we have fewer ambulances--it wouldn't take too much for our resources to run out.
Yes, its a difficult time for the health workers especially. In one of the two hospitals we have in town, that happens to be across the street from my house, the have now found 8 nurses testing positive. All together we have about 200 cases in a community of 50,000. About 50 are cured, 1 died. Very much in danger are institutions like homes for elderly and such. There are a few places in Germany where it happened, and several people died. My mother is in such a place (but yet without corona cases) as well. Nobody is allowed to go in there any longer, except for staff.
Almost more worrying is the way the economy is going. The lockdown will result in a huge number of bancrupcies and hence huge unemployment. At the moment it sounds as if the government is paying for it all - but the government are we, the people, at the end of the day. Of course they can print as much money as they want and distribute it among the people, just as its done in the US as well. But sooner or later this will backfire, in one way or another.
Yes, it certainly will backfire. It's all well and good that the government is trying to help people, but in the long run we're going to ... well, pay for it. I'm not sure what else they could do, though.
Meanwhile, the health industry has been called on to do more and more, while the people doing the work are getting sick, too. Oh, boy.