Lockdown in Blajel. afl.21
The number of people in home quarantine will increase significantly today. The staff of a factory in Cisnadie, about 300 people, were subject to this measure after four employees were infected and one person died recently. Together with their family members certainly a group of around 1000 people. It is striking that it is a company where all kinds of materials are made for hospitals and there are usually already strict hygiene measures in place. The staff are from Sibiu and a whole series of villages around it. If many people turn out to be infected, that will also cause a considerable spread of Covid-19 in the province.
You often hear and read negative reports about health care in Romania and, of course, there is still a considerable backlog in many areas. In the Covid-19 story, we're still not doing bad with 21 deaths per million inhabitants. It is a significant difference from Belgium, for example, which I believe is currently at the top with 445 deaths per million inhabitants. The Netherlands also has nearly 10 times as many as Romania. Of course, we are far from here and have no idea what the likely low number of infections will mean in the long run for the development of group immunity.
There is great fear at national and local level about what the average Romanian will do at Easter. In the Orthodox Church, the whole Easter event is more important than Christmas and above all a party where all the family members come together and friends and acquaintances visit each other. In addition to all kinds of calls to stay at home, there is also a lot of discouragement policy. Medias has announced that bus traffic will be stopped for 4 days. Take a rest for the bus drivers who have so far just kept doing their job. Hats off for all those people who just have to work - sometimes with significantly increased risk of infection - to make sure that we are short of little or nothing, water is still coming out of the tap, the heating is spinning, the shops are full of necessary and less necessary items, the garbage is collected, etc. The list is too long to mention. Sometimes a little less complaining about everything that doesn't go through right now would be in place.
On a personal level I notice that the measures bring down my already not too good condition. Mowing lawn in half the garden gives muscle pain for a whole day. The statistics of my pedometer are constantly showing new lows. I have left the scales under the bed in the last few weeks but luckily it did not deliver any sad messages this morning about more kilos. I wonder how many people have a netflix or internet addiction to this period.
