And buildings are being strategically used to obscure the true count!
Is data analysis really this hard to get right?
While Polish authorities handled the beginning of a crisis quite well, they decided to ease restrictions at the beginning of this month and now thereâs a large spike in daily infection count (7-day average is highest since the beginning of pandemic):
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/poland/
Allowing family celebrations of up to 150 people (such as wedding receptions, which may easily become super-spreader events) probably played a role in this. There will be large religious processions in the entire country tomorrow, and probably another spike 9 days later.
No real surprise there⊠and another reason to vacation locally.
Can someone in Germany (eg @LutherBlisset) explain this to me:
The story says that Germany is opening its borders to all EU countries except Spain on June 15. Arenât Sweden and the UK still in the EU? Why single out Spain?
Yeah, Iâm expecting for a big spike in the US from the Memorial Day celebrations, though that could get lost on the general catastrophe that is the US at the moment.
Also, isnât Poland opening their borders this week?
For 29 of the countries, the travel warning will be lifted on June 15, but later for Spain and Norway, because border closures imposed by the respective governments still apply there. Spain does not allow the first tourists to enter the country until June 21 - limited to a few holiday islands in the first eight days.
Source:
It is, for all Schengen Area citizens. European Commission advised opening borders before 15 June, so it is a bit weird that Germany is singling out Spain, especially since according to official data the pandemic there is nearly over.
edit: Thanks to @LutherBlisset for explaining this
OK, so a reciprocity thing. Thanks for the clarification. Funny that the Norwegian news doesnât mention that it applies to Norway too, not just Spain.
Doug Ducey is a murderer. He is murdering people. If you give me some clever legal explanation of how that is not the case, all you have proven is that a broken legal system is allowing him to murder people.
Late night talk radio, too. My mother believes in chemtrails because of some âexpertâ she heard on Coast to Coast decades ago.
(edit - a word)
More on the murdering, by the murderer.
Oh great. I need to travel there in 10 days time.
How âneedâ is it?
Pretty much no one wearing masks here, âsocial distancingâ is always a farce, and Iâm in the âsensibleâ blue part of the state. Canât imagine what Phoenix / Mordor County is like.
Pretty big need unfortunately. Tucson area.
Stay safe.
Itâs really shitty for us. My parents are both high risk, and thereâs no âsocially distantâ visiting with a 3-year-old, so we have really have to sequester ourselves. We used to shop for them, but now only Whole Foods and Costco (at least here in Tucson) have mask rules (and only Costco enforces then) so we can only do deliveries for most things.
Iâm supposed to be shopping for preschools. Thereâs no way my kid is going to preschool in August. But I donât think any number of dead is going to make Ducey back down now, so Iâm sure schools wonât close.
At least Iâll get some nice photos of sunsets
Iâm afraid thatâs also a guaranteeâŠ
Citizenâs initiative calling for mask law
Tired of conflicting messaging on mask usage from the government and health authorities in Finland, a grass roots group launched a citizenâs initiative last week calling for a law that makes the use of masks in public spaces obligatory.
According to tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, the Ministry of Justice approved the citizenâs initiative (in Finnish) on Wednesday. The initiative will proceed to parliament if it receives the necessary 50,000 supporters.
Prime Minister Sanni Marinâs government has so far not recommended the use of masks to combat the spread of coronavirus. Last month, a study commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health stated that widespread use of fabric masks have little or no effect on reducing the spread of upper respiratory infections.
The governmentâs science panel and a group of Finnish researchers have come to the opposite conclusions. Last week, the World Health Organization released updated guidelines recommending mask use in public places.
The citizenâs initiative launched by the activist group Maskit Kaikille (roughly âMasks for Allâ in English) asks MPs to immediately prepare a law on the obligation to use masks in public indoor spaces, public transport and also in the outdoors in areas known to have widespread transmission of Covid-19.
âThe obligation to wear masks should be implemented immediately throughout the country and should remain in force indefinitely, or until there is no longer a risk of the corona epidemic spreading, or a workable drug or vaccine (has) been invented,â the initiative declares.
Authors of the citizenâs initiative include Anna Korhonen and Linda Ahlblad from Helsinki and Mila Boström from Espoo. Juha-Matti Jussila and Eliisa Haavanlammi are also among the first signatories.
According to Boström, if passed by Parliament a mask law would help Finland prepare for a possible second wave of the coronavirus.
The citizensâ initiative includes both scientific and legal arguments, citing international instances of obligatory mask rules in countries like Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Greece and Spain, among others.
