German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced last Tuesday the extension of the country’s coronavirus lockdown. “Now is the time to take preventative measures against the threat of this virus,” she said.
The mandate has been in effect since December and calls on school closures, limiting household interactions, a ban on drinking alcohol in public, and all nonessential shops and services to be closed. All those on public transportation are required to wear face masks with advanced respirators.
Bavaria requires all those on public transportation and inside shops to wear FFP2 masks, which provide an extra layer of protection. These masks not only prevent the person wearing them from getting other people sick, but they also act as a preventative tool for the wearer.
Merkel made the announcement after a meeting with premiers from the countries of 16 states. The lockdown was to expire at the end of January but will now end on Valentine’s Day, DW.com reported. The report said that infections have decreased in the country over the past few days but there is a lingering concern the new variant could add to an increase in infections.
“If countries should decide to take different paths… you have to be ready to say then, we’ll have to reintroduce border controls. We don’t want that, we want to find an agreement with our partners, but we can’t have that (infections) just coming because other countries aren’t taking another path,” she said.
Repeat Offenders
Some German states are considering ways to deal with those in the country who continue to disregard coronavirus guidelines. One of the solutions will be to send them to detention centers.
“Pandemic control lives or dies with public acceptance. This would suffer if noncompliance remained without consequences,” Sönke Schulz, a regional leader in Schleswig-Holstein, told a local paper.
TRENDPOST: Ignored by the mainstream media and politicians is the fact that the coronavirus is a dangerous disease for the elderly and those with comorbidities. About 89 percent of those who died from the virus in Germany were over 70 and 96 percent were over 60.
As we have noted, governments should be taking measures to protect those most vulnerable to the virus and stop destroying entire economies, destroying businesses, ruining lives, and crushing the livelihood of the young to fight mostly an “old person’s virus.”
