Countries around the world are continuing to implement lockdowns, curfews, and strict travel restrictions in hopes to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but they have faced new calls from residents who say these mandates have done little – if anything – to stop the spread.
Lockdowns across Europe have kept about 230 million inside their homes, yet hospital systems in the U.K. and other countries are being packed with new patients. Many of these countries are seeing even more cases and deaths than they did at the beginning of these lockdowns when masks were not required and many businesses were not forced to close.
Health officials have warned the rate of infections is likely to increase, considering the new variant first located in Britain is even more contagious.
“Every time the virus replicates, it’s an opportunity to mutate,” Ben Bimber, a research professor at Oregon Health and Science University, told NBC News. “If there are more people infected, there’s simply more virus out there and it has more opportunities to mutate.”
FRANCE. Paris announced last week that all visitors from countries outside the EU will be required to present proof they tested negative for the virus within 72 hours before their trip, The New York Times reported. The paper also said these travelers will have to isolate for seven days and then be retested. The paper said it is unclear how Paris will enforce the measures.
France 24 reported there is a growing concern in the country about the psychological effect on college students that are unable to attend in-person classes. President Emmanuel Macron said in October it was “hard to be 20 in 2020.”
The report said that 2021 is already looking “depressingly familiar” to last year after the country implemented a new nationwide 6 PM curfew.
“These measures were necessary given the situation. While worsening, it remains relatively better than many countries around us, but I took them because the context, notably with the evolution of the virus, means we have to have utmost vigilance,” Prime Minister Jean Castex said.
TRENDPOST: According to statista.com, 92 percent of the people that died of the virus in France were 65 years of age or older. Again, rather than taking measures to protect those most susceptible to the virus, as with other nations, instead, draconian lockdown measures are imposed that have destroyed the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions… and have sucked the joy and beauty out of life.
BRITAIN. Similar to France, Britain also requires visitors to test negative before arrival followed by a 10-day isolation period. Reuters reported the country is dealing with its third wave of infections.
The Guardian reported Prime Minister Boris Johnson said last March that Britain could “send coronavirus packing” within weeks.
But, last week, Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, told the BBC, “We’re now at the worst point of this epidemic for the UK. In the future, we will have the vaccine, but the numbers at the moment are higher than they were in the previous peak – by some distance.” He said he expects the next few weeks to be the “most dangerous time.”
“We’re now at a situation where in the UK as a whole, around one in 50 people is infected, and in London it’s around 1 in 30,” Whitty said. “There is a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily, they will have Covid.”
TRENDPOST: The fear-spreading expert failed to note that COVID has a very low mortality rate for the very young who have been very punished with the lockdowns. Also, there is conflicting data as to whether those who are considered asymptomatic can spread the virus.
In addition, as with much of the world, the virus death rate in the U.K. is predominantly among the elderly and those with pre-existing chronic conditions including obesity, type 2 diabetes, asthma, cancer, heart disease, etc.
Since the virus broke out in February, now, some ten months later, according to the U.K.’s National Health Service, only 388 people aged under 60 with no underlying health conditions have died from COVID.
The NHS reported that between 2 April to 23 December, just under 2,000 previously healthy people died from the virus after testing positive.
As we continue to note, rather than taking measures to protect those most vulnerable, as with other nations, in the locked-down U.K., more businesses and lives are being killed by the draconian mandates than healthy people dying from the virus.
GERMANY. German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week called for stricter coronavirus restrictions in the country. She hopes to meet with state premiers by next week to discuss further measures to combat the virus.
Berlin recorded 22,368 new cases on Friday and another 1,113 fatalities. The country of 83.02 million recorded a total of 44,994 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak.
Der Spiegel reported that Merkel could consider new requirements including more contact tracing and citizens having to wear higher-quality face masks.
TRENDPOST: In the new ABnormal, facts don’t count; fear, hysteria, and government control do.
As we have reported, most of the German virus victims were elderly and suffered from pre-existing chronic conditions.
To date, the country of 84 million had a total of 40,000 deaths since March compared to New York State, with a population four times smaller than Germany’s (19.5 million) which has approximately the same number of people who allegedly died from the virus.
Of those German deaths, 89 percent were over 70 years old, and people over 60 years of age account for 96 percent of the virus victims according to statista.com… a solid fact that is continually ignored by the Presstitutes who continually sell fear and hysteria.
Therefore, as we continue to emphasize, rather than lock down the entire nation, destroying businesses, lives, and livelihoods, Germany, as with the rest of the world, should be advising and assisting those most at risk to take strict precautions while letting the rest of its citizens live “normal” lives… and end the lockdown orders that have already failed to stem the virus.
IRELAND. The Republic of Ireland announced last week it will demand all travelers test negative for COVID on arrival into the country, and anyone who disregards the mandate could face fines and imprisonment.
The mandate would impact anyone arriving in the country except those in Northern Ireland. The tests would need to be performed within 72 hours. Those who fail to produce the information could face six months in jail and/or a €2,500 fine. (Children are exempt.) These individuals will have to fill out a Passenger Locator form, so authorities could monitor locations. The country is under a “Level 5 Lockdown,” which is the most severe.
The Journal, an Irish publication, reported on Sunday there were 1,928 people hospitalized in the country of nearly five million. About 195 are in ICUs. The country recorded 13 additional deaths. The median age of those who died was 83 years old, with ages ranging from 66 to 97.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal continues to stress, as we have since the media and politicians launched the COVID War, that COVID is dangerous for only a small percentage of the population. The fact that countries are implementing these lockdowns and crushing an entire generation will cause long-lasting mental and economic pain.
NETHERLANDS. The Dutch government last week announced it would extend the country’s lockdown to prevent the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said at a press conference the country has no other choice.
“The figures are not going down sufficiently and now we have to deal with the British variant of the virus. What we see coming out of Britain and Ireland is heartbreaking and alarming,” he said. The Financial Times reported there are at least 100 known cases of the British variant in the country.
Hugo de Jonge, the country’s health minister, said he hopes all residents over the age of 60 will receive the vaccine by the summer and the entire country of 17.28 million will receive the vaccine by the fall.
The lockdown extension sparked protests in Amsterdam last weekend, which were broken up by riot police who used a water cannon, Reuters reported. Some of the signs included, “Freedom: Stop this Siege.” Protesters chanted, “What do we want? Freedom!”
TRENDPOST: A poll conducted by NOS showed that four out five people consider the extension of lockdown laws acceptable, and 72 percent support the government’s strategy in fighting the COVID War. The government said that by autumn, the entire population will have been vaccinated, and people over 60 will have been vaccinated by summertime.
AUSTRIA. On Saturday, several thousand Austrians took to the streets of Vienna to protest the draconian lockdown restrictions imposed on them by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who is in talks with his government to further extend them.
Mask-less demonstrators, many chanting, “Make Influenza Great Again” and holding signs reading, “Kurz Must Go” marched through the city center.
Unlike the “democracies” of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, etc., there were no reports of COVID Cops breaking up the crowds and arresting protestors.
In its third lockdown, Austria, a country of nine million people, has registered some 7,000 virus deaths since the COVID War was launched last March… or 0.077 percent of its population.
TREND FORECAST: As we have forecast, the longer the lockdowns last, the higher the citizens’ temperatures will rise, sparking more anti-lockdown protests. It will be a building block in the formation of new “populist” political parties.
LEBANON. The small Mediterranean country announced last week that it would impose a 24-hour curfew for essentially all businesses and force even grocery stores to implement a delivery-only service, according to The New York Times.
TREND FORECAST: We have been reporting on the dire economic contraction of Lebanon’s economy and the riots and protests that wracked the nation in 2019 when thousands continually took to the streets to protest skyrocketing unemployment, government corruption, violence, crime, and lack of basic living standards.
When the COVID War broke out in March, the country used it not only to lock down the nation but also to stop the protests… as they did in nations such as India, Chile, Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Algeria, France, etc., where protests against the establishment governments had been raging.
Yet, with Lebanon, a nation of nearly seven million and recording 1,905 deaths since the COVID War broke out or 0.027 percent of the population, now being forced into tighter lockdown, this will worsen the already dismal economic and politically-unstable nation. Despite the new draconian lockdown orders, protests and unrest will escalate.
CANADA. Residents in Canada have expressed frustrations over newly announced lockdown guidelines and have called out examples of hypocrisy from officials who flouted their own COVID rules.
“People are very angry and frustrated at being told they can’t sit in the backyard with friends or visit relatives while members of government are flying all over,” Lorian Hardcastle, a professor of health and law at Calgary University, told the Financial Times.
Hardcastle was likely referring to Rod Phillips, Ontario’s former finance minister, who was caught vacationing in St. Bart’s last December. The paper reported about two dozen other politicians and senior officials who were forced to issue apologies for traveling during the outbreak, including two members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
The paper reported that Quebec and Ontario have announced new lockdown guidelines. Quebec announced a four-week curfew, and Ontario extended school closures.
TRENDPOST: Canada, a country of 37.59 million, has averaged 7,616 new cases and 137 deaths per day during the period between 8-14 January, the CDC reported. There has been a total of 17,995 deaths as of last Sunday. Some 70 percent of the deaths are reportedly from eldercare homes. But, again, rather than protect those most vulnerable, rulers of the land lock down the masses.
TUNISIA. After three days of protests and people taking to the streets to oppose new rounds of draconian lockdown rules, Tunisia, the nation that launched the Arab Spring back in 2011, is again ablaze.
According to the German news agency DPA, police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators and arrested over 600 demonstrators.
On Sunday, Amnesty International condemned the arrests and called for the immediate release of the protesters, stating, “Nothing gives security forces permission to deploy unnecessary and excessive force including when they are responding to acts of sporadic violence.”
TREND FORECAST: When the COVID War began last March, we had forecast that already deteriorating economic conditions would worsen, and the protests raging in 2019 would escalate. The longer nations impose lockdown laws, the greater the scale of protests, and the more destabilized governments will become… sinking already economically-depressed countries into civil unrest and civil wars.
