Since 19th Aug when we opened up a little more, allowing some workers back to office and eating out, the number of cases have been rising. After being conditioned to accept a zero target, of course many people are uncomfortable to see cases rising from tens a day to hundreds.
We’ve been subject to a number of mixed messages, such as:
Be responsible and try to stay home for the next two weeks.
In other words, we’re opening up but try not to have more than one social gathering a day. But if you see people gathering out there, it’s perfectly allowed.
Cases are climbing, but the good news is the number of very sick ICU cases are stable and not increasing in numbers.
We will continue to monitor increasing number of cases and see if ICU numbers go up. If they don’t, we’ll continue opening up.
Hospitals have been asked to reduce non-urgent treatment.
Just in case we get it wrong and suddenly we need a lot of beds for Covid-19.
We expect more than a thousand cases per day in the next few weeks. But we should all be responsible so that we don’t get to three thousand cases per day.
This takes the cake. I don’t know if any country has managed to fine-tune Covid numbers like this.
We’re not rolling back our measures but we are pausing reopening.
Yep, in a nutshell. I just wish we had one good spokesperson who fully understands the science laying it out. The different ministers say it the way they understand it and sometimes it sounds stupid and contradictory.
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It seems to be the same everywhere – as soon as opening up begins, cases rise. We’re told to be careful but people can gather in large numbers to watch sporting events. Vaccination visas are going to be required for entry to nightclubs – but not until October. With all the mixed messages it is not surprising many people seem no longer bothered.
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Every country has its own methods of reopening. It was mentioned that we look towards the UK as an example of success, with high vaccination rates, opening up and relatively low severe illness rate.
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Yes, that’s all true about opening up – if we discount the 134,000 deaths we’ve had so far. Numbers are rising again. The government has been shambolic – at best -in its response throughout, always acting too late. We should be more like New Zealand – there’s a country that got it right.
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Numbers are rising again in countries that were not affected so badly before, it looks like a couple more years before we can stop worrying about this.
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At least 😦
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I hear you. Well said. Lots of mixed messages here too.
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So much confusion and frustration abounds thanks to Covid.
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