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Quote: Originally posted by Bajazly  | | Quote: Originally posted by surabi |
Well, he finally woke up today. Said everyone needs to stay home and not go out unless it's essential. Mentioned possibly closing down the airports.
I'd like to see him close the borders. |
Have a link to the article? Are they shutting businesses down? |
Here in Sonora, absolutely. Nothing but essential services open now. Maquiladores factories have even been shuttered.
I suspect it is too little, too late. It has only been in the last few days that any meaningful stoppage in border traffic into Mexico has occurred.
Before that, it was business as usual.
Mexico's healthcare system will NOT be able to keep up with what's likely to come, IMO.
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Lopez Gatell, the Mexican govt epidemiologist, announced in a press conference yesterday that starting today the entire country will be in a 1 month
long mandated quarantine. Only essential businesses will open such as grocery stores and drugstores, and only services essential to public safety will
operate like CFE and water. Here's a rough translation of what was said in the press conference word by word. I am also posting the link to the press
conference, in Spanish, of course. He closed the conference with this statement: "I want to be clear and immediate again, this message will be
followed by an official government notice stating all the specifics."
There will be a live feed YouTube presentation on the government website at 7 pm this evening.
“The Task Force working on this amounts up to 350 years of experience in the public health sector, including two doctors with national science
awards. Today, we speak to you, the citizens, and share the following technicalities:
1) The prevention and control measurements that the Mexican government has established have been designed by a group of specialists. These
measurements have been correct, pertinent and opportunist. All of these measurements have been made based on scientific data and comply with the
recommendations made by the World Health Organization. These measurements have been communicated repeatedly, and have now been established in the
countries legal frame, to be formulated and written on paper at the highest level.
The call that we make to the Mexican citizens today, is for you to reflect, and lets be very clear, we require for you to follow and reinforce these
measurements, it is our responsibility, and it is our obligation to comply with this measurements and to be consistent. All of us need to take care of
ourselves, and take care of each other.
We all must cooperate in order to flatten the curve of this epidemic. Hereby, we require you to adapt to all the preventions measurements instructed,
not just the ones that are directed towards personal safety, but to follow the prevention measurements directed towards community safety. As long as
we are successful with massive immobilization of the country, with a high reduction of workforce activity, scholar activity, and the concentration of
masses in public settings, we will all be benefited by minimizing the speed at which this virus is being transmitted.
This is our last chance to flatten the curve, and this requires to have a country wide immobilization and to stay home. This is our last call, we must
all stay home. We speak to you directly: STAY HOME, STAY HOME. Stay home, because staying home is the only way we can slow down the pandemic.
Our curve is halfway to going from a slow transmission stage to a rapidly increasing transmission stage. We are in a period of accelerated rise in
daily confirmed cases.
It is impossible to avoid this epidemic. We are currently living through phase 2, and we are very close to entering phase 3. One of the highest risks
that will come with entering phase 3 will be the lack of hospital beds. Hospitals will be unable to help citizens, and deaths that could have
otherwise been prevented will occur, due to insufficient hospital beds.
That's why, I repeat the most important message, the only way to flatten the curve TODAY is to stay home, country wide, everyone, during a stipulated
period of 1 month. Let me reiterate that this does not mean that the accelerate rise in cases will be prevented. But we will be able to slow down
phase 2, and once we get to phase 3 hospitals will have enough bed to take care of everyone in need of medical attention.
It is our responsibility, at a government level, in the private sector, in the public sector, and in the social sector, to STAY HOME.
In order to reach the potential these safety measurements have, we must reinforce that the public, private and social sectors MUST ADAPT to these
measurements. The government is doing its part, by suspending ALL ACTIVITIES, in exception for those activities that are essential to human life. Such
as grocery stores, energy services, water services. Essential services. No one is to overvalue their work, or feeling like their work isn’t
valuable. Whats important is to stay home, to reduce the number of people infected. That is why, it is absolutely necessary, for the Private and the
Social sectors to follow these measurements with a force, and with clear determination, to not undermine our efforts.
I want to be clear and immediate again, this message will be followed by an official government notice stating all the specifics."
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A little late but that is how it's done. I honestly hope the numbers out of Mexico are at least close to accurate so this will have a chance of
working.
Believing is religion - Knowing is science
Harald Pietschmann
"Get off the beaten path and memories, friends and new techniques are developed"
Bajazly, August 2019
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| Quote: Originally posted by lencho | | Quote: Originally posted by surabi | | Lopez Gatell, the Mexican govt
epidemiologist, announced in a press conference yesterday that starting today the entire country will be in a 1 month long mandated quarantine....
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Do you have the link to the original source of that (translation?)? |
No, I'm sorry, I don't. It was posted on the chapala dot com webboard. But there was also an official announcement on TV last night, in Spanish, of
course.
[Edited on 3-31-2020 by surabi]
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COVID-19 doesn't give a flyin' fiddler's phuque about charisma. Fighters will tell you fire is an indiscriminate killer; doesn't care if you're
white, brown, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or non-denominate. Oh, that includes Repugnican't or DemocRAT. We're all screwed.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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Just for 'astounding' comparison...
“Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and subcommittee chairwoman Karen Bass (D-CA) did not stop there with their demands as they told Barr to consider
releasing prisoners regardless of the severity of the crimes for which they were convicted and regardless of the type of facility they were housed
in….
The two Democrats then stated that they had a problem with Barr’s memo that said that inmates at low and minimum security facilities should be
prioritized and those who were convicted of serious offenses should not be released. The two Democrats stated [emphasis added]:
Your memorandum specifies that priority should be given to inmates in low- and minimum-security facilities and that “serious” offenses should
weigh more heavily against consideration for home detention. These limitations, unfortunately, beg the question of what you do with individuals who
are at a high risk for contracting COVID-19 who are not in low- or minimum-security facilities, who have been convicted of serious offenses, or who
have high PATTERN risk scores. We urge you to consider that even individuals in these categories should be assessed for release because they may be
elderly or particularly vulnerable. Pregnant prisoners, in all circumstances, should be released to home confinement forthwith. We further urge you to
assess the risk of contracting COVID-19 of every individual in BOP custody, regardless of the type of institution in which they are housed, the
seriousness of their offense, or the potential recidivism risk they may present. If BOP decides to keep these individuals detained, what specific
provisions are being made for those among them who are at high risk for contracting COVID-19? What plans are being made to communicate information to
these individuals, their attorneys, and their loved ones, about the plan for their care behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic?”
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FYI California released non-violent inmates who were near the end of their sentences. The are socially isolating those still in jail; bringing food
to cells.
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Their numbers are likely understated a lot. Accurate numbers presume plenty of testing, enough kits, personnel and labs. Doesn't sound like Mexico to
me. And even if you test a lot, there can be 30% false negatives, according to some studies.
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