THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T LIFT RESTRICTIONS TOO QUICKLY
Infection rate rises in Germany as lockdown eases
From the article "requiring local authorities to reimpose restrictions if cases rise above a threshold of 50 per 100,000 people." per day over a 7 day average, to add. I watched the original press conference with Merkel. If the average of new infections is over 50 per day for a region (could be a village or city), then per the new definitions, social distancing measurements will be reinstated. That is 50 in 100.000.
At the moment, that has happened for 3 places in Germany only. One also in a meat-packing factory where the super low-income workers, partly from other countries only here to work in the factory, all live together in bunks.
Also from the article:
"And one district in the state of Thuringia reportedly recorded more than 80 infections per 100,000 people, thought to be due to outbreaks at care facilities."
80 in 100.000 new infections per day (over 7 day average).
That is still nothing. It's picogram-levels and we are just pulsing, I guess. Happens in MMA athletes as well.
So while the title is technically correct, it is not like it's a giant new outbreak.
I personally do fear however that when a "second wave" comes the only way that they can get everybody into a panic-state again (today a lot of people think that the RKI (they also show up in the article, they are responsible for consulting the government on diseases) have been drastically overreacting), well, when they make a new panic, then the headlines will be
really bad and the people will panick. That would totally suck.
