Your account of Central/South Europe sounds like it has the same attitude as in Victoria, which is now in the grips of a bad 2'nd wave. Multiple aged care facilities are in lock down, with the death toll rising. In addition to that catastrophe, people who were held in mandatory quarantine returning from OS, the Private Security Company hired to supervise those detainees, stuffed up BIG TIME...
Long story short, certain security staff were having sex with some of the detainees, along with taking them shopping and what not. Because of this, outbreak clusters formed. Which has broken out into an all out 2'nd wave.
Victoria (Melbourne) was in single digits. But now they're seeing record spikes of 450+ in positive tests per day. That, and the aged care facilities, is making this even worse over there. Seems Victoria maybe in lock down till at least December 2020.
Laws now demand people wear masks when out in public. However, there are some people claiming that wearing a mask, goes against their 'human rights'. Hence they're not wearing masks. Even Amnesty International has stepped up to the plate, stating... laws forcing people to wear masks is NOT an invasion of "human rights".
These NUT JOBS put everyone's health at risk. Now laws are in place to protect people from these nutters.
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Here is South Australia, our borders are closed, manned 24/7 by either the army, police or both. We're pretty much in a bubble.
The only covid-case we've had over the last month or so, was a return citizen from OS. At the time of returning a positive test, she was housed in a 14 day mandatory (supervised) quarantine facility. Once tested positive, there she stayed till cleared.
Aside from that, a handful of foolish thrill seekers from Victoria, have tried to run the gauntlet. Although they all made it across the border, ALL were apprehended and subsequently jailed without bail, and had their day in court. Previously that carried a AU$1,600 fine. However, that ante has now be raised. Anyone breaking the border laws will receive a mandatory 2 years in jail.
That seems to have stopped the thrill seekers.
A couple of times I've had to ask people when I'm out shopping to move away with the words "hey, social distancing"... Though on a whole, 99.999% of people are doing the right thing.
I've never washed my hands so much. They've become so dry, I've had to use moisturizer.
It's winter here, so unless we have a sunny day (18C or so) I generally don't venture out. So life really hasn't changed that much.
Happy to hear other people are OK in these trying times
