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Did Bouillon get the tone wrong? Saar politicians demand dismissal

But the Saarland political scene ran hot throughout the day. The European political spokesman for the Saar-Liberals Francois Simons said: "Minister Boullion's statements lack the decency required for his office. With the statements in Today's Journal, he fuels resentment in an extremely sensitive European political situation. "

Simons concluded his statement by saying: "As a minister in the most European of all federal states, Boullion no longer has a place. He must correct his statements immediately. Otherwise, the ball lies with Tobias Hans, who then has to decide that Boullion can no longer be part of the Saarland state government "

The Saarbrücken SPD member of the Bundestag, Josephine Ortleb, was critical: "The statement by Saarland's interior minister Klaus Bouillon is dangerous for Saarland. With his testimony, he tears the Franco-German bond of friendship to shreds, tearing everything we have historically managed with our neighbors. Such rhetoric is unacceptable - it must have consequences. Prime Minister Hans must finally dismiss Klaus Bouillon as Minister."

○ 'We are on a war footing' - Inside one of France's coronavirus cluster zones | The Local |

    Jean-Luc Reitzer, the local MP for the Haut-Rhin department who was the first French lawmaker to test positive for the virus, is among those in intensive care.

    Local authorities said late Monday that there were 193 cases of coronavirus in the Haut-Rhin region where Mulhouse is located, one of the highest concentrations in France.

    Most of the cases in all of eastern France were linked to the meeting of the Christian Open Door Church in Mulhouse from February 17th to 24th, a statement by the local authorities said.

○ Coronavirus: The Five Days at an Evangelical Super Church That Set a Time Bomb in Europe | Haaretz |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui (Oui) on Fri May 1st, 2020 at 10:48:07 PM EST
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Re: Alsace-Lorraine: France COVID-19 Cluster (none / 1)
The Local and Haaretz articles date back from March. I had also commented on the Mulhouse Evangelical gathering back then.

The number of cases, people in hospital and in ICU beds, have been decreasing continuously nationwide for the past ten days now, including the northeastern "Grand Est" region, but it is still one of the heaviest hit regions in France, while the western and southwestern regions have been relatively spared.

The government has published a "de-confinement" map, or rather a series of color coded maps (would have been too simple, wouldn't it?) showing selected criteria, such as "virus in active circulation", "tension on the hospital beds, and ICU beds capacity", "percentage of ER visits with suspicion of C-19", etc... You can see that the "red zones" still skew heavily to the north and east of the country, plus of course, the heavily populated Paris region. The maps are supposed to be updated and revised daily. Regions in red will keep stricter measures, even after May 11, while the green ones will be more relaxed.

by Bernard (bernard) on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 10:37:39 AM EST
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Like most of Europe, France appears to have the pandemic under control, provided pre-mature loosening of lock-downs doesn't allow infections to spike again. Ireland has just published a quite comprehensive 23 page staged relaxation of lock-down measures plan. Hopefully we won't have to roll back any of the measures.

PS - did you get my email?

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 11:39:04 AM EST
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Re: Alsace-Lorraine: France COVID-19 Cluster (4.00 / 2)
Stop-and-go strategies, or "hammer and dance" as Tomas Pueyo describes them, could, in theory, prevent a second wave to spike again, provided that social distancing (with face masks) is well respected, plus a lot of testing and contact tracing to quickly isolate the infected people and quarantine the potentially infected ones. No easy stuff.
by Bernard (bernard) on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 03:21:54 PM EST
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A second wave is inevitable.  Too many people are incapable of rational analysis.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Wed May 6th, 2020 at 03:16:32 PM EST
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