Italy Set to Impose National Lockdown Over Easter Weekend
Italy is set to impose another national lockdown over the Easter weekend. The decree is expected to be signed into law later today. Sky News has the story.
[This lockdown] will see non-essential shops closed from April 3rd to April 5th, with people only allowed to leave their homes for work, health or emergency reasons, according to a draft Government decree seen by Reuters news agency.
The country – the first in the world to impose a national Covid lockdown just over a year ago – will also enforce tighter restrictions in low-risk areas from Monday.
Those measures – which form part of an existing four-tier colour-coded system – will see movement between towns in “yellow” regions limited and restaurants and bars shuttered.
The news comes just days after Italy surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths – the sixth country worldwide to do so after the US, Brazil, Mexico, India, and the UK.
In February, Will Jones wrote on the first anniversary of a day that will “live in infamy” – when the Italian Government quarantined a whole local population in an effort to control a coronavirus outbreak. Over a year later, they’re trying the same failed remedy again.
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Looks like the Italians don’t understand the difference between ‘with’ and ‘of’ either!
Italian all-cause mortality completely normal.
https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
For God’s sake:WHY?
Punishment.
I know its rather irrelevant now as they won’t let us out whatever the number are – but….
Zoe app update – R has fallen below 0.7
estimated new symptomatic cases today for UK = 5143
If the modellers are right, the next few days will see a huge leap in R as the infections run rampant through the schools and parents and teachers start dropping like flies. Unfortunately for society, the modellers haven’t yet worked out that this virus is seasonal – something we all knew last April
I guess most Italians will ignore. They reopened restaurants in defiance, they will defy again.
The Italians have a technocratic government in power, it is far from ‘democratic’, it is possibly a taste of what is to come for all.
no great history of democracy on mainland europe. they aren’t used to it
Given that “technocratic governments” were imposed on Italy in the past largely at the behest of the European Central Bank, I wonder if Covid and the response to it will fuel the Italexit movement?
So the Italian government knows that a national lockdown is required, not now, but next month. Is this even supposed to make sense?
a 3 day lockdown in 3 weeks. god their models are accurate!
As a complete moron re. this site, what has happened to the long term regulars? Poppy, Bart Simpson Biker Annie, I miss their contributions and humanity, am I missing summat?
250 of the regular commenters have moved across to Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSceptics/comments/m35mur/todays_comments/
Most now over at https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSceptics/
As for the Easter lockdown, what is the point in doing it Easter weekend when all the shops are closed anyway?
….. as a result of the changes made last weekend to the way this site operated. It’s clear that many of them visit here for information but their comments and links are posted on the Reddit site.