So are your restrictions loosening there?
I've been doing plenty of the work I can at this time of year on the trees, still have the large Kurume to do, will wait till after the blooming for that one.
Nope, they are still the same measures, if you can call it that. Our government likes to call it 'advice', so half of the country doesn't give a hoot. I had some coughs and a bit of fever, now that I'm free of those complaints for over 48 hours, I'm back to work. There's another lung virus going around, and the flu hasn't stopped either, and it's hayfever season. So there's no telling who is suffering from what exactly, unless you end up on the IC, then you'll get tested.
But since the public transport is filled with coughing people, and our minister of health has collapsed during a debate yesterday, I don't think it'll be long before we'll either get either a full lock down or a zero-restrictions policy. Realistically speaking, we're way beyond flattening the curve already. We just test less than the rest of the world, so the numbers are off.. We have no public numbers of tested vs. positives, because I honestly believe that everyone being tested comes back positive. The first outbreak started during carnaval, which is like the US spring break - with half of the adult population celebrating along - but in a Halloween costume and with near freezing temperatures. Perfect storm. Afterwards, everybody traveled back to where they study or have their student housing. The restrictions have just been in place for less than a week, now that we're showing a similar pattern as Italy.
The thing is: since Europe is so divided, with all those different measures, it'll come in wave, after wave, after wave. As soon as people are allowed to travel again, they're going to infect others. I can drive to Paris and back in a single day. That's three countries I'll be in, with three different types of measures. If one of them isn't successful - and I know they aren't, Europeans are filthy by default, myself included - then there's no stopping this train.
I just hope that the people that have had it, catch up a good immunity and stop being spreaders.