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Another member for the curfew club

Spanish government announced today state of emergency and a nationwide curfew from 11pm to 6am, with the sole exception of Canary Islands, where infection rates are significantly lower.

His intention is to extend it until the beginning of May. That sounds really scary.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
[quote]The hard truth is this. If the economy were allowed to function entirely normally, if people could go about their daily business, there would be no significant increase in risk of death or of life changing illness to the large majority of the population. If you allowed restaurants, offices and factories to be be open completely as normal, the risk of death really would be almost entirely confined to the elderly and the sick. Which must beg the question, can you not protect those groups without closing all those places?

If you were to open up everything as normal, but exclude those aged over 60 who would remain isolated, there would undoubtedly be a widespread outbreak of coronavirus among the adult population, but with few serious health outcomes. The danger lies almost entirely in spread to the elderly and vulnerable. The danger lies in 35 year old Lisa catching the virus. She might pass it on to her children and their friends, with very few serious ill effects. But she may also pass it on to her 70 year old mum, which could be deadly.

We are reaching the stage where the cumulative effect of lockdown and partial lockdown measures is going to inflict catastrophic damage on the economy. Companies could survive a certain period of inactivity, but are coming to the end of their resilience, of their financial reserves, and of effective government support. Unemployment and bankruptcies are set to soar, with all the human misery and indeed of deleterious health outcomes that will entail. - Craig Murray [/quote]

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/10/covid-19-and-the-political-utility-of-fear/
@Mugin16 4 games Saturday.It just reminds me of what I am missing.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
@TheSirfurryanimalWales What is the fourth game? Australia vs New Zealand?
@Mugin16 yes.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
to shut down partying & restaurant hangouts or just to control the population & make sure they stay home at night?
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Cierzo round ups of the Deep State human traffickers etc. It’s all over the world, kind of like Covid.
smiler2012 · 56-60
@cherokeepatti 🤫 these are the non mask wearers and those who go out still among people when they have been tested positive for corona virus
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
revenant · F
france : from 9.00 pm till 6.00 am in major towns now
revenant · F
@carpediem thank you
Cierzo · M
@revenant That's quite hard, and probably useless.
revenant · F
@Cierzo useless indeed. Police checkpoints everywhere too
smiler2012 · 56-60
yes agree with you but with times the way they are and it works to reduce new corona virus infections and ultimately reduce any more deaths a bit of hardship maybe be worth it in the long term @cierzo
smiler2012 · 56-60
@Cierzo it is lose lose really which is more important business or human life i know to me which is the major priority
Cierzo · M
@smiler2012 I believe that choice is false. Closure of business leads to poverty, and poverty kills.

My take is keeping as much economic activity as possible as long as health system does not collapse.
smiler2012 · 56-60
@Cierzo you may have a valid point there but i think we will have to agree to disagree on that one 😝
ammelee · F
we're heading for another lockdown
11pm doesn’t sound too bad.Given that most people are probably home between those hours not sure what they are trying to achieve.
And they are quite happy to have a couple of hundred cyclists and their entourages cycling around Spain for three weeks.
Curfews we haven’t done yet.
Mugin16 · 46-50, M
His intention? The prime minister's?

A curfew until May? Why not until 2028? These measures are going to get out of hand for a pandemic that does not kill that many people.
Cierzo · M
@Mugin16 They do not care about the virus. They know there will be protest since economy and destroyed and more people are sick of authoritarian measures. Hence the state of emergency.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
🤔That's a bit stupid.

Leaves the public with breeding resentment for six months and the government with a headache should things get worse.
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