The Day Before...
So tonight at 11:59 the entire country of South Africa will go on a national shutdown, following suit of many other countries all over the world. Until about yesterday the exact information about what people are allowed to do was a tab bit all over the place, with fake restrictions circulating on social media. Luckily we had our very own minister of police make an official statement to ease our fears. Yes, the mafia, criminal looking guy with the hat in the video below, making jokes amidst a national lock down, that's the minister of police. So when I tell you that our murder rater is higher that the US and any country currently at war, it all makes a bit of sense. Some of the things he said people were not allowed to do was, walk around, walk their dogs, and what probably freaked most folks out here was, that there will be no sale of any liquor during the shutdown. And everyone panic!!
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill
Panic is exactly what hey did, this morning people started queuing at the break of dawn to ensure they have enough booze to get them through the next 21 days. Luckily I'm not much of a drinker, but realized I had completely forgotten to secure lockdown snacks. Also I felt I needed to marvel at the people desperately buying as much alcohol as they can, panic fights are the best. There ques were pretty long and unlike other countries, you can only really buy hard alcohol at liquor stores, only wine is available at the grocery store. Even though all the food stores and anyone working in anything food related will be open, people have been buying as much as they can just in case. I think after a day or two people will hopefully start calming down just a bit. As far as infection rate goes, last I heard was yesterday morning of 709 infections in 20 day, a much higher infection rate than in Italy, which was 400 in 26 days.
"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." - John Locke
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Unfortunately we can't really compare infection rates because there's not standardized way to register across countries. Only thing we can really compare is 'deaths per capita', and start counting from 'death 1', and see if your deaths go quicker or slower than the other country.
Confusing times really. I hope the panic stops quickly. I still have difficulty getting my groceries delivered, I used to be able to order one day beforehand, now I need to set the order a week and sometimes even 2 weeks in advance :D
Or you can use deaths x 100= total # of cases 3 weeks ago. (It takes an average of 3 weeks to die.) Modest infection rate is double every 5 days. 3.5 doublings-today's number of cases. In the case of the US it's 1100 x 100= 110,000 three weeks ago. 220k, 440k,880k 1.25m Cases in the US today. Probably means 12,500 deaths in 3 weeks. Not exactly what the President says. We are rumored to hit 100,000 test kits out this week. Probably means a few aren't tested. Yes, that is snark.
Don’t panic, you’ll survive, day 14 here in Belgium, still alive but just bored... 😒
Boring right? Haha! Belgium is a little more strict than the Netherlands, but yeah, hope it goes over quickly.
Just think of how much fun you can have playing with those stinking cats! I mean seriously.
That'll take about 4 minutes out of the total lockdown...