Barcelona, Spain
This afternoon.
Via The Local:
Barcelona and other cities in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region will impose a night-time curfew starting this weekend to fight a surge in virus cases after the measure won court approval.
The curfew is intended to discourage social gatherings on beaches and in parks to curb a spike in cases of the highly-contagious Delta variant, especially among unvaccinated young people.
The region’s top court on Friday signed off on the measure, which will affect a total of 161 municipalities, including popular beach resorts like Sitges and Salou.
Catalonia, the epicentre of Spain’s jump in infections, has already ordered all public gatherings to finish by 12:30am and restricted gatherings to no more than 10 people.
KN writes:
‘Like Ireland destroying its pub culture, this about changing a way of life. In Spain, 1am at the weekend in Summer is like 11pm here and all ages are about. Things are only getting going.’
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There was a curfew in Melbourne. It worked. 700 cases a day to zero. Our rights were restored when the virus was gone. It is almost as if the government was doing what is best for the people. I think people will survive a few weeks of curfew.
And it only took a few months before the next curfew was put in place
And a few months later the next one.. etc
How many times has Melbourne been in lockdown now?
“it worked”… apart from the fact that large parts of Australia are currently under lockdown. Again. And facing the prospect of repeated lockdowns for the next year, while the rest of the world opens up.
And while the tens of millions of people in Australia with foreign connections miss life defining moments like funerals, births and weddings of their family members because of the almost 18 month long border closure, which is now forecast to stretch on for another year…
Australia is probably going to be the worst place in the developed world to spend the next 12 months. I wouldn’t fancy it at all.
“Spain’s vaccination programme has worked through age groups meaning those in their 20s and 30s are only now starting to get jabs, leaving them vulnerable to the new Delta variant.
Unlike in previous infections waves, the death toll has remained low and intensive care units have not so far not been overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients.”
Until the obsession with the need to prevent community transmission and rampant testing of the healthy comes to an end the hysteria is set to continue. As much as the media would have us believe otherwise, we can’t lose sight of the fact that for most people symptoms are mild to non-existent – all the more so for young people. If it’s the case that there’s a much more transmissible strain spreading among young people, during the summer months, with no real impact on the level of serious cases, then isn’t this just the virus doing what viruses do as it maintains an equilibrium in its endemic state?
If we continue to meddle with complex systems of coexistence which have evolved over the millennia – that we don’t fully comprehend – then we inevitably set off negative chain reactions. The perfect example was that recent story in New Zealand.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt
“New Zealand children falling ill in high numbers due to Covid ‘immunity debt’
Doctors say children haven’t been exposed to range of bugs due to lockdowns, distancing and sanitiser and their immune systems are suffering”
18 months in, repeated examples, and you still don’t seem to understand exponential growth.
How case numbers is a precursor to hospitalisation numbers.
How hospitalisation numbers. is a precursor to deaths (and overfull hospitals that can’t do normal treatment)
And how quickly a little trickle of numbers turns into a massive deluge.
Yes, vaccination has loosened the % of cases -> hospitalisations, but there is still a % that will end up there.
Case numbers, yawn.
Case numbers are hokey. The pcr test isn’t accurate, so your equation is basically pony.
There’s going to a “massive deluge” yet the vast majority of vulnerable people have already been vaccinated?
You’re becoming increasingly incoherent. One minute the vaccines are highly effective, now you’re essentially arguing against them