In the U.S. lockdowns, have produced a new work mode, i.e.: work from home. Many folks do not want to return to the daily commute and the office "nonsense, stupid meetings, and management aggravations". The result has been an increase in the sundry non urban housing market and an influx of money, job skills and businesses into suburban areas. Of course the 2020 summer riots, the increase in criminal activity, lack of law enforcement, and political turmoil hastened the process. New York City and other cities are now neither places to visit, nor to live, nor to do business and definitely not places to raise a family for average people.
The country's rail, road and air services were suspended in March to stop infections into the country's interior, but the case numbers have risen daily. Officials say the spread of the disease would be worse if without the stringent restrictions.
Deaths from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, have reached 2,293 while the number of cases crossed 70,000, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. A fifth of India's cases come from the densely populated cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad and Pune, which are also major centres of economic activity.
It is not an easy time, uncertainty may keep you up longer than usual at night, but it is useful to meet yourself for real, to understand you are lonely but not alone. And to be sure that when everything is over, we will take care of the things that matter with greater consciousness.
Melbourne, a State of Australia has had more lockdowns compared to any other states. Wondering if any other States &/or other Countries are experiencing the same . . . ?
Hard to quantify numbers as have 4no. lockdowns of days-weeks cannot really be compared to parts of the UK that have been in a single lockdown for neigh on 300 days for a single stretch.
Most of Australia are in lockdowns again . . . here in Melbourne, around 75% of office workers are still working from home. It's not back to normal as pre-COVID days .In Texas here. We had a half-lockdown here, in that people were encouraged to work from home if possible and restaurants and bars were very limited capacity for many months. After roughly (not sure the real number) 6-8 months of bars being shut down and restaurants limited to carry out only, the restrictions began to ease. for a couple months restaurants were at 25% capacity, then 50%, etc. gyms and movie theatres were closed for the same period. Everything has been back open for several months now and is back to normal. You still occasionally see someone wearing a mask. You still find that rare holdout store somewhere that has a sign requiring people to mask up, but people inside that store mostly don't have masks. I think here in Texas the general attitude is that we are done destroying our lives and economy for a virus whose mortality rate is less than 1%. My job, in particular is delivering materials to the big hospitals in Houston, and I can tell you that all through the Pandemic it was super creepy walking through a mostly empty building that used to be so busy!! Very few staff, even fewer patients. OR empty, Recovery empty, Intensive Care empty! It was very strange. But about the time everything else opened back up, the hospitals have begun to be a bit more busy. Nothing like pre-covid though. I never had a day off and my job can't be done from home, so I was there to see the hospitals empty out and now slowly start to fill back up. During the middle of the pandemic I could drive the 45 miles from my side of Houston to the far north area (The Woodlands) in 40 minutes!! Now with traffic back to high levels it takes 1 hour 15 minutes again, depending on time of day. There are SOME things that I miss about the pandemic (having the streets almost empty)! It's hard for employers to find employees after the lockdown because some lazy people liked sucking up the government pay to sit at home. There's STILL a lot of restaurants looking for workers here. I can't imagine a 300 day lockdown. I think we would be rioting!
Why are y'all getting locked down again? Are there not vaccines available now over there? I'm sorry to be so ignorant of the issues there, but I'd like your perspective rather than what I hear on the news.
It's hard for employers to find employees after the lockdown because some lazy people liked sucking up the government pay to sit at home.
There was and has been a threat of resurgence, so people have not seen a large enough reason to put themselves at that risk. The government pay is nowhere near enough to drive people to stay home on its own. If a single point needs to be marked as responsible, blame the antivax/antimask crowd for continuing to devalue human life and encouraging the spread of the virus instead of helping the country become an island of health where people would feel more comfortable with going out and working again.
Lockdowns will continue as long as vaccination programs are lagging. We got out of our 3rd lockdown but a 4th one is being felt as likely in a few weeks partly because the vaccination program has been losing steam. I wish people cared more about each other. There's really no other way to end the pandemic and iterative lockdowns than vaccines. They have been shown to be effective by themselves, and more recently when mixed up. Side effects are scarce (although highly covered by media for some reason).
I fear that we will stuck at 50% vaccination nationally and will keep getting lockdowns for years.
NB: there is no chip in the vaccines and Bill Gates couldn't care less about watching other people lol please relax about vaccine side effects. 💌
Unless Australia gets its vaccination programme sorted you will keep getting lock down after lockdown. The UK will hopefully say goodbye to lockdowns after 19th July. There are over 80% of adults vaccinated already
The "unintended consequences", at least in my part of the NY, of politically motivated lockdowns, vaccine passports and mandatory vaccination/restriction protocols, have been a demand for increased wages, better working conditions, a shortage of workers, the re-location of small/medium sized businesses out of cities, and in general, political and social animosity. ....... All for controlling a laboratory made pandemic virus with a mortality between 1% to 2% on average. 2022 should be an interesting year.
But, I'm afraid we're about to see some terribly high inflation rates.
I'm sorry to be so ignorant of the issues there, but I'd like your perspective rather than what I hear on the news.