Posted on 09/22/2020 2:21:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Eight people who refused to wear face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 now must dig graves as punishment for violating Indonesian mandates requiring face coverings.
The violators were ordered to dig graves for those who have died from the coronavirus, according to the Jakarta Post.
“There are only three available gravediggers at the moment, so I thought I might as well put these people to work with them,” local politician and Cerme District head Suyono told Tribun News.
Suyono said that two people were assigned to each grave — one to dig and one to line the hole with wooden boards for support. He said the violators did not participate in the actual burials, , however.
“Hopefully, this can create a deterrent effect against violations,” he said.
Indonesia made wearing masks mandatory on April 5, SBS News in Australia reports. In addition to grave digging, violators in the country have also had to sit in a hearse containing a casket and asked to reflect on their actions.
Meanwhile, businesses that violated the rules have been temporarily shut down and ordered to clean sewers as punishment, a law enforcement coordinator reported.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, over 221,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Indonesia, SBS said. This includes 8,841 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Indonesia has the highest death numbers in Southeast Asia.
Effective?
Seems if the anti-maskers are the ones digging the graves and not the ones going in the graves, perhaps the science is off on the effectiveness of masks.
“Indonesia has the highest death numbers in Southeast Asia.”
So I guess this mandatory mask thing isn’t working so well. A sane government would try something different.
Sheesh, don’t give the dems any ideas.
Most populous Muslim country.
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Actually it’s just lazy, garbage reporting. Southeast Asia hasn’t been hit hard yet anywhere. And the only way Indonesia has higher “death numbers” than its neighbors is if you ignore the size of the population. In deaths per million population, the Philippines has them beat handily.
But that also doesn’t tell the whole story, because deaths per million is extremely low in both countries: just 45 per million in the Philippines and 35 in Indonesia. Masks are mandatory in all those countries, including Thailand and Vietnam where deaths per million are 0.8 and 0.4 respectively. Meanwhile, the US is at 619 deaths per million and Belgium is at 858 per million.
I’m against mask mandates on principle, but the point you’re trying to make here is based on the faulty reporting of people who are terrible at their jobs. And if you’re looking for data on what a mandatory mask policy does between countries, you’ll find data all over the place.
Good point. They’re on the right end of the shovel, so they’ve got that going for them.
Courtesy ping.
I’d be interested in seeing any of those articles all over the place which isolates mandatory mask usage as a reason for reduced fatalities due to Covid. Especially in situations like in the US where they closed the barn door after the horses have already bolted. I haven’t seen one, but I’m open to persuasion. The most persuasive article I’ve seen so far, a metastudy of research on mask effectiveness, concluded “it couldn’t hurt”.
Point taken about the Southeast Asia numbers, though.
And, apparently, the harshest measures with the harshest penalties for disobedience.
There is the correlation so is it also causation?
But there are more masks than jellyfish washing up. O the huge manatee.
Naw. I would just sentence them to volunteer on the local hospital covid ward, without PPE. I mean , it’s “just the Flu Bro”.
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