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Originally Posted by Risky Justice

I said practical example. Why are you in denial about things? Experts on this have already weighed in on this. It doesn’t reduce risk to zero, however it cuts it down significantly. Combine it with social distancing, and the risk becomes basically zero—and that’s the whole point. When we have morons out there not doing what they’re supposed to, it screws everything up. Shit is already back to normal in Europe, and the only difference is the average intelligence of our respective populations.

Personally, I’m good either way, so whatever. I just think this country is filled with self-centered simpletons, and I wish they would stop making the rest of us look bad. I can’t even travel because this place has turned into some third world shithole, on the same list as places where you need to get shots before you can visit.

Six of the top ten countries for new infections are in Europe, so they still have issues.
UK and France just blocked travel again a week or two ago.

https://6abc.com/further-restriction...surge/7162018/

Originally Posted by 6abc

LONDON -- Governments across Europe have introduced more restrictions to combat the spread of COVID-19, with a combination of nationwide and specific regional measures and curfews imposed as the continent faces its "second wave."

The number of globally recorded coronavirus cases passed 40 million on Monday, according to John Hopkins University, and while more than half of those cases come from the U.S., India and Brazil, an increasing proportion of new daily recorded cases are emerging from Europe.

In total, over 7 million cases have been recorded in Europe since the start of the pandemic, according to the European Center for Disease Control, with 241,291 deaths.

After new restrictions were imposed in several countries earlier this month, Switzerland has followed Italy in imposing a nationwide mask mandate in all public spaces from Monday.

While not as restrictive as previous measures imposed when Italy faced a severe COVID surge earlier in the pandemic as it became the first country to surpass China's death toll, local mayors have been given the power to close piazzas and streets from 9 p.m. and bars and restaurants must shut by midnight.

Ireland's government has announced that, starting Wednesday, it is returning the country to a full-scale lockdown for six weeks, reinstating restrictions close to those that were in place in the spring at the height of the first wave of the pandemic.

The new lockdown will raise restrictions from Level 3 to Level 5, banning all house visits, closing all but essential retail stores, and requiring people to stay within a 5-kilometer (3-mile) radius of their homes. The new guidelines represent one of the strictest national lockdowns in Europe.