Dutch and Germans in shutdown, London goes dark
mainThe Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is about to shut schools and shops for a month in a lockdown tighter than in March-May 2020. Covid has been rising by up to 10,000 cases a day in a country of 17 million.
Everyone will have to stay home for Christmas.
Germany is shutting schools, kindergartens and all but essential shops. There will be a nighttime curfew from 21:00 to 05:00. The shutdown will last until January 10.
The UK Health Secretary has just spoken of a new strain of coronavirus which may be causing a spike in south and southeast England.
London is being placed under tough Tier 3 contraints.
Once again, it’s the day the music died.
UPDATE: Zurich has closed its concert hall until the end of February.
The curfew between 21h and 5h will apply to Bavaria, as far as I am aware. Not to the entire country.
And to Baden -Württemberg. And to Saxony (few exceptions). And to Thuringia and Brandenburg. More to come soon.
The measures apply throughout the whole of Germany (in every State) from 16 December. Link: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/diese-corona-lockdown-regeln-gelten-ab-16-dezember-17099945.html
Everyone knows covid19 is much worse at night.
Follow the science.
Ok. Here are CDC data shows covid19 hasn’t increased US death rates.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/john-hopkins-university-academic-cdc-data-shows-covid-hasnt-increased-us-death-rate
It is difficult to distinguish between ‘pure’ covid deaths and deaths by heart and other diseases since the virus attacks more than the lungs. Testing should give evidence, not counting deaths.
Everything is just listed as covid19. It’s for the money. You know that.
I’m only showing the US but I’m reasonably confident the EU probably has similar statistics.
When does it start?
At some places today, at others on 16th.
The new measures apply from 16 December. Throughout Germany (all States).
What a sad way to mark Beethoven’s (approximate) birthday.
Most measures, but not the curfew. Last I checked a curfew has been adopted by only three of the 17 states. Speaking of which, Bavaria has enacted a 500 euro fine for breaking curfew.
“17 states”
A common mistake, but Mallorca isn’t actually a part of Germany.
In fact Mallorca and parts of Portugal combine to form a German state in absentia. Of course, I was thinking of the Weimar Republic. Currently the number is 16 give or take a dozen.
Is there any information if Barbican still have a performance on 17th? I suppose Tier 3 means that everything is cancelled, but there are no update on the website.
https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepeat.detail/2020/12/17/1816/-/event-cancelled-beethoven-piano-concerto-marathon.html
Incredibly unfortunate timing for the LSO’s Barbican Beethoven concerts with Zimerman and Rattle on Wednesday and Thursday. At least they have been recorded for audio and visual release.
The tragedy in Holland is that the government and its virological advisers don’t see that the rise of registered infections is mainly due to the great increase of people being tested. So, that does not mean that spreading is increasing, and this is demonstrated by the numbers of hospitalisations which has NOT gone up.
Also there is no acknowledgment of the importance of airborne transmission, international scientific concrete information is not picked-up, although available since April. Scientists who want to inform the public and the government, are ignored and excluded from airing their evidence while this really should be part of government advice.