Monday 27 July 2020

Hong Kong: dining out banned; masks required outdoors; sixth straight day of triple-digit cases

But where is the “Second Wave”?
[Huge sigh].... when will this end?
  • Exemptions for mask wearing will be granted in the case of ‘reasonable excuses’ such as medical conditions, but not for exercise
  • The measures come as the city records two more coronavirus deaths, a 76-year-old woman and a 92-year-old man.  Here...
Meantime, in Sweden: the soft-lockdown country (aka voluntary), things going pretty well.
And Bernard-Henri Levy, France’s rock-star philosopher, and Lockdown Sceptic, says we have “to resist the wind of madness blowing over the world’.
I agree. Delusion, hallucination and paranoia. We have to learn to live with the virus:protect the elderly, disinfect, mask, get on with life.  (H/t Lockdown Sceptics)