Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Mnementh]

Barozi said:

vivster said:
Hope Germany can get this second wave under control. Actually we're already past the point where we should have implemented a wide spread lockdown again. I demand a statement from Angie who promised that there would be localized lockdowns if it broke out regionally again, but that never happened.

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There's currently only one county with more than 50 cases per 100k, which was declared to be the critical value.

Even the proposed lower value of 35 has only been reached by that same county (it's getting close though).

Infections are going up, no doubt but not as dramatically as it might seem due to bigger testing capacities. The lowest positivity rate was 0.6% and we're now at 1.0%. Still managable but I don't have a good feeling about sending children to school...

To be fair, that threshold is pretty high. Even in March/April many districts wouldn't have met this threshold. I am also not so sure if absolute numbers are the best guidance here. Absolute numbers mean we react after it is pretty much late. What is worrying me is the clear increase in new infections and no reason why that trend should stop as no measures are implemented. If we wait until this rise leads to high numbers of infections, it is late. We could stop this trend now.