Without scaremongering, but it comes back. The covid-19 pandemic regains strength in Europe, which is today its world epicenter. Two million infected during the last week. Of course we live in developed and transparent societies, the first allows us to accurately account for what happens and the second makes us not hide it. In other places they are not even able to count nor do they want to publicly acknowledge the extent of the tragedy who live. The situation seems worse in Central Europe, where citizens have shown more resistance to being vaccinated and that has forced Austria to close everything except pharmacies and supermarkets while in other countries they impose restrictions again.
Too infections rise in the United States (with 60% vaccinated) and in South Africa a new variant has just been discovered so worrying that it has caused the price of shares, oil and bitcoin to fall. That is why London has just banned flights from South Africa. German Health Minister Jens Spahn has graphically said that at the end of winter “In Germany we will all be vaccinated, recovered or dead & rdquor ;, and the possibility of ordering forced vaccination is raised. In several countries they already prevent the unvaccinated from entering bars or restaurants. This is what I say, that those who do not want to be vaccinated but then who do not sit next to me in the cinema. In other places The use of masks is again mandatory while teleworking is encouraged. The bad thing is that infections also increase in places like Portugal, which is the country with the highest percentage of vaccinated population.
It is not known why. A simple explanation is that with the arrival of the cold people gather in closed spaces and that facilitates the spread of the virus. Another is the reopening of schools, where children under 12 barely suffer the effects of the virus but transmit it effectively. OR stop using masks because they are a drag. And certainly all that plays a part, but the truth is that, as Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, says, scientists are ignorant of more than they know about the way the virus spreads, and we don’t really know how it is going. to evolve in the coming months. David Leonhart says that it spreads like a fire in the forest, with spots of fire here and there but without a clear rationality that allows to predict its future itinerary. In reality, never in the history of humanity have so many brains and so many means been put to work together, and the result of getting vaccines in a year of research it’s an unprecedented success although we still need to know a lot. For example, we do not know the duration of coverage offered by vaccines, or if they are valid for all variants or if we will end up having to receive them annually as happens with the flu.
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What is clear is that in Minnesota itself a study shows that the percentage of deaths among those vaccinated under 50 years of age is close to 0%, and that’s why not getting vaccinated is stupid. Because you also infect others, and in the case of those over 80 years of age (including those vaccinated) there is a risk of death. In Spain we have 80% of the population vaccinated And that’s a success, but in view of what is happening around us, it would be very stupid of us not to soak our beards. Let’s hope that this time the government uses the appropriate legal tools for the measurements you take. It should not be necessary to remember these things, but in view of what has been seen, all the precautions are few.
The people are tired after two years of confinement and the decision of some governments to reimpose restrictions has run into serious disturbances in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Croatia, Switzerland …. It is understandable but not very intelligent. In some cases the organizers were far-right parties and deniers, but other participants did it out of simple exhaustion and because they want to return to “normality & rdquor ;. They ignore that perhaps we have entered a different normality, that this situation can last a long time And that your attitude will only help make it even longer.
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