April 1st is not a day for April jokes (even if humor should help), Taiwan has even announced severe penalties for Corona April Fools. A lot of things that are currently shifting around the world would have been made a few years ago for less original punch lines for 1.4. held.
Donald Trump got to Russia ask for medical help. Putin is happy to offer them. An airplane is from Russia in the USA on road. It is just one example of how tectonic plates have shifted due to the corona crisis – and are shifting even further. Would you like a few other examples: Trump considers the sanctions against the Iran lifting. We can still hear his martial words that the sanctions would be measures that could not be tougher. Also threatened with military strikes Trump. Now the US Army is taking care of field hospitals, and the crew of the USS Eisenhower (at least 4,000 men) will probably have to be quarantined, because that too virus was introduced.
And something completely different: Even the biggest data protection fighters are only talking about under which (strict) conditions Big data should be used and no longer if at all.
Fear of second wave
In those countries Asiathat are recognized for the success of flattening the curve (Singapore, South Korea) there is now fear that the corona virus could have traveled around the world and triggered another wave. And the limits are already being drawn. Now tourists in Taiwan Fever measured. Because there is no functioning global crisis management system, protecting your own crises is a functioning means of bringing the pandemic under control.
What’s the plan in Austria?
After the government in Vienna has now clearly given up the herd immunization model (like almost all other countries worldwide), because that would cost tens of thousands of lives (short quote), you have to be prepared for a very long time with very strong restrictions. Health economist Ernest Pichelbauer summarizes his view of things in an anger blog. A small excerpt:
A small mental calculation: a natural one Herd immunity (until we have another therapy or vaccination, the only chance!), 4-5 million Austrians must have gone through COVID19. Let’s say we do everything that there are 1,000 newly infected people per day and reach herd immunity with 4 million inhabitants, then we have to continue like this for the next 11 months (note: kurier.at: probably years). No schools, no universities, no jobs that require less than a meter distance, no visits to old people’s homes, no planned operations – lock down for 11 years (133 months!)! Seriously? That is the strategy of government? Although it is clear that for all healthy people under 50, an infection is no worse than a flu infection? By the way, you can read the entire blog here.
In other words: Actually, only a medicinal ingredient or a vaccine will help us to return to a reasonably tolerable normalcy.
But even with us that would mean that even if control of the epidemic were gained, border guards would have to be maintained. That would mean entry only with a health certificate and / or 14-day quarantine. So beautiful Austria for tourists, too, a two-week wait at the border in isolation would probably spoil the holiday fun for many. The same applies vice versa. We believe that many countries are concerned about the fall Ischgl Austrian non-measures become known to me nothing, nothing Austrian travelers would accept?
“It is time to make efforts to support each other on a global level by doing” international social distancing, “said Dr. Park Jong-hyuk, spokesman for the South Korean medical authorities. Countries, keep your distance! Sounds like yesterday.
So there are many more details to clarify about how we can get out of there. Nobody can really know at the moment.
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