Zahnradfee
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This is what the second wave looks like in Germany.
We were so lucky over the summer, having curbed the pandemic rather quickly in the first wave.
And now: >14,700 new cases in one day.
I have been wondering since September why our politicians don't order some shut downs. We've been hearing for weeks: "Oh, oh, oh, we need to be careful!"
But nothing happened.
And now it's getting out of control again.
And there are still people saying we should stop all Anti-Corona-Measures. SMH
Neoeon
The UK looks almost exactly like this graph. The US is gearing up for wave number 3. People are idiots.
ViveLaGuerre
das leben ist kein ponyhof
JAPONfan
If only anyone could in any way predict that how it's gonna be.
SquaresUnfiltered
nonameidea2
Could be because a lot of measures are not mandatory and self-control is hard for many people. It is not forbidden, so it is okay
nonameidea2
It is sad and will lead to bad things
MyOtherShipIsAPython
Well, with news titles like "is there actually going to be a second wave?" or "experts say the second wave could be even worse." (1)
MyOtherShipIsAPython
Yea, no shit, Sherlock. The Spanish flu pandemic is common knowledge. Yes, there is going to be a second wave, and yes, it's going to be (2)
MyOtherShipIsAPython
worse. You don't need any experts to tell you that. Smdh.
kamosey
Is it because your country has many germs?
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Zahnradfee
Lel. Probably. :D
CgnCalling
ElroydIsGone
LOL, last time I looked, it was called Germany, not Germy... ;-)
Zahnradfee
Germ many.
ElroydIsGone
"Oh no! We are doomed, everything is sterile!" - "Fear not! Here comes Germ man" - "Our hero!"
ElroydIsGone
...and a big "thank you" to the >30000 lunatic fringers who protested in Berlin against that eeeevil oppression.
Neoeon
I know right? Seems like a lot of first world countries have this insane "Antimaskers" holding rallies and saying "No, no, shutup everyone,
Neoeon
an intelligent person knows that masks are muzzles and disease can't spread from person to person via breath. We don't need to stay away
Neoeon
from each other." I'm just sitting here like "Why are these people not in insane asylums?".
lustre
I guess number of cases is higher as we're testing more. The real sincher is how many people need hospital care, no?
Zahnradfee
To a certain extent, yes. It might be that we only have roughly the same number of new infections per day right now as we've had at the >
Zahnradfee
peak in April. But it's not as if we didn't have a problem. ... Also, in the last Corona podcast, they had a doctor who've said that there >
Zahnradfee
are already limits to how much care they can dedicate to non-corona patients, because of the lack of staff. It's not critical yet, but he >
Zahnradfee
is concerned that non-corona patients might receive less care, because they need everybody to take care of the corona-patients.
marcaurel45
Check belgium
Zahnradfee
I know that other places are even worse off. But Germany had been doing so well that some people became too smug and incautious about it. >
Zahnradfee
And of course you had the "See, it's not that bad!" crowd. Of course it was not that bad, duh, because we've been doing something against it
Zahnradfee
but now the hard work has been thrown out of the window again.
marcaurel45
You right