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AUSTRIA WILL BEGIN REOPENING
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| 04/08/2020
| Paul Mirengoff
Posted on 04/08/2020 5:51:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Austria will begin reopening
Austria will lift some of its Wuhan coronavirus related restrictions next week. It will begin by reopening non-essential shops of less than 400 square meters on April 14, and then all shops and malls on May 1. Strict rules about masks, social distancing, and the number of people allowed into a store at any one time will remain in place.
Schools will remain closed until mid-May. Public events are banned until the beginning of June. All of these decisions are subject to change, depending on conditions.
Austria’s prime minister said that his early response to pandemic has enabled the country to begin reopening. Austria instituted its national lockdown on March 16. It was, I believe, one of the first European nations to do so, but not by all that much.
Austria has around 13,000 reported cases of the virus and is adding to that total by about 250 per day. Fewer than 300 Austrians are reported to have died from the virus. Yesterday’s total was 30.
The country’s logarithmic curve of total cases flattened around the beginning of April, but has not yet moved downwards. The number of currently infected people in Austria is declining, though. It peaked at around 9,300 on April 3. As of yesterday, April 6, the number was 8,300.
The fact that recoveries are now outpacing new cases appears to be the key factor in Austria’s decision. Absent a new wave of cases, the country need not fear that its hospitals will be overwhelmed.
In the U.S. our number of active cases (the currently infected) continues to soar.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: austria; coronavirus; economy; reopening
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To: SeekAndFind
Sweden, The Netherlands, and now Austria. I hiope they fare well with their reopenings.
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posted on
04/08/2020 5:54:38 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: SeekAndFind
Imho three weeks and America is fully open imho
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posted on
04/08/2020 5:54:58 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: no-to-illegals
To: snarkytart
As do I. No reason to remain closed imho
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posted on
04/08/2020 5:57:44 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: no-to-illegals
Imho three weeks and America is fully open imho
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I surely hope so!
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posted on
04/08/2020 5:59:42 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(It is not a HOAX but it IS A PRETEXT!)
To: House Atreides
As do i. May God and our President be with US
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:02:17 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: BradyLS
Sweden never closed, did it?
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:02:18 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: no-to-illegals
Imho three weeks and America is fully open imho
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So, by April 30th?
(Texas isn’t even supposed to have CV peak, until right around that time.)
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:03:59 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:05:16 PM PDT
by
dadfly
To: Jane Long
Lets pray our politicians and media stop their deception imho
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:05:59 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: SeekAndFind
From article:
The countrys logarithmic curve of total cases flattened around the beginning of April, but has not yet moved downwards. They'll have to wait a LONG time for the logarithmic (or linear) curve of TOTAL cases to move downwards. Idiot.
To: no-to-illegals
Oh no, no, no, no.
Just heard a clip of Dr. Christopher Murray (of the University of Washington) saying his “model” would require us to maintain the shutdown until the death rate falls to “0.3 deaths per million people per day”, which he then said would be about 60 deaths per day in the US. He projects that this would occur around the first week of June.
The math doesn’t seem to work to me. 0.3 deaths per million would be around 100 per day. Furthermore, the US can’t stay shut down until then.
Life has inherent risks, and we’re going to have to suck it up and go forward, realizing that people may be dying of covid-19 for the rest of human history. We must save what’s left of our economy.
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:20:19 PM PDT
by
NorthWoody
(A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
To: SeekAndFind
I agree with some of this strategy. If we just “go back to normal” we’ll only see a new avalanche of CV cases and have to go back to lock down.
Masks are imperative, social distancing too - probably the two biggest variables.
Should we reopen sports with “limited” seating? Maybe.
Buffet restaurants are probably doomed.
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:21:57 PM PDT
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: no-to-illegals
Hannity just asked VP Pence if the country would be opened up, by May 1st....
...VP said he ‘wouldn’t speculate on a date’
:-(
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:37:16 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: Jane Long
It’s going to be a staggered reopening, not everywhere at once. Might even be by county. You can’t put a date on that.
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:53:56 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
To: SaxxonWoods
That’s what I’m starting to think.
The ‘stay-at-home’ orders have been pretty staggered (differing measures/across country), so it makes sense that the re-openings would be, too.
If I see Dr Death Ezekiel Emmanuel (Fox shows keep replaying him) say ONE more time, that we won’t be able to reopen anything until EVERY American has been tested and/or vaccinated, I will barf.
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posted on
04/08/2020 6:56:58 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: no-to-illegals
To: SeekAndFind
“Strict rules about masks, social distancing, and the number of people allowed into a store at any one time will remain in place”
So their reopening will in several ways be stricter than our shut down.
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posted on
04/08/2020 7:34:24 PM PDT
by
oincobx
To: no-to-illegals
It’s going to be a gradual opening. It should be months before we open up our borders as long as the virus is active on the globe.
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posted on
04/08/2020 7:36:07 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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