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Friday, December 18, 2020

Meanwhile, in Europe.....

Germany enters harder lockdown as virus deaths hit new high

BERLIN – Germany reported a record level of coronavirus deaths as it entered a harder lockdown Wednesday, closing shops and schools to try to bring down stubbornly high new daily infections. 

The country recorded 179.8 virus infections per 100,000 residents over the last seven days, a new high and significantly more than the 149 per 100,000 reported a week ago by the Robert Koch Institute, the country's disease control center.

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Dutch leader announces tough new nationwide virus lockdown

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough new five-week nationwide lockdown Monday, saying schools, nonessential shops, museums and gyms will close down at midnight until Jan. 19.

10 comments:

  1. Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend Come inside! Come inside!

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    1. These days always the case count. Have you noticed even on local news rarely the death count. Lies, damned lies and statistics. It is killing people though.

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    2. "It is killing people though."

      So do aspirin and bathtub slips. Something will get each of us, eventually.

      The second and third-order economic effects will probably end up killing at least as many as the Coof.

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  2. Betcha they have a crew of "spreaders" working.

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  3. As I've said elsewhere:

    "Insanity" is defined as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

    "Psychosis" is defined as "doing the same thing over and over again, ONLY HARDER this time and demanding different results."

    What are they going to do when their "super-duper" lockdown doesn't work?

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  4. Hey Wirecutter;

    I lived over there as an Army brat for 10 years and was stationed over there for 5 years....that being said.....I ain't feeling it.....sucks to be them....doubling down on stupid ain't gonna fix it.

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  5. You've got a few years on me - 7 as a dependent and 3 when I was stationed there.
    I miss the German people. Their government, not so much.

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  6. 179.8/100,000 = .001798 or 0.1798%. Less than two tenths of a percent fatality rate. Are these people utterly insane?

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