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13 Aug 2020
Finland has been having the beginnings of a second wave, and the government has been meeting to attempt to get some policy to allow them to better enforce quarantines on return from red alert countries and to release an official recommendation for masks. (Wax says the government is legally obligated to back up a recommendation for citizen behavior by making sure it's possible and helping people to do it and that's why it took so long: systems and supply chains, apps and help lines and cost calculators.)
The situation has been in the news; they're putting testing for arrivals by ship in Turku harbor and they've already put a testing location at the airport; one flight from the Balkans (last week?) had 20-something infected people on it, about a tenth of the passengers. They've recommended our whole region go back to working from home, which I've been expecting.
There were 14 new cases in Turku in the last few days and Turku had already asked people to wear masks when using public transport earlier this week before the mask recommendation was released today (according to the news, almost nobody was yet). But even in this new second wave, the infections are still quite low. That's 14 counting from more than one day (Wednesday there were 3 new cases) and Turku has a population around 190 thousand.
Meanwhile my vile and reviled redstate hometown has a population around 100k - so half Turku's size - and had about 1500 new cases and 80 deaths on Wednesday per my mom, plus over 2000 school employees now in mandatory quarantine after being exposed because they were forced to work when the schools reopened as normal. (My parents are at home and my mom wears masks if she has to go out, but my dad's a quadriplegic so they still have home help assistants coming in and out daily.)
My sister works in Baton Rouge in state government for Louisiana - another red state, but one with a democrat governor - and they've had like 15 cases just in her building but they haven't quarantined any of their contacts at all, they just "deep clean" whatever floor the people worked on each time - this in spite of the fact that in the spring the whole agency was working from home and it's fully possible for them to do so (their democrat governor was apparently, she says, threatened into rescinding the state of emergency and sending people back to work in the summer even though the numbers never really dropped).
It puts it into perspective a bit - that's like uncontrolled spread in the population and the authorities doing nothing and/or making it worse - but not enough to make the situation in Finland non-worrying.
It also puts into perspective that I have been right all along in trying to get my parents and sister to move to a blue state, if not to Canada, and that their stubborn insistence that the deep south is warmer and has a lower cost of living is just as annoying as I always thought it was.
The situation has been in the news; they're putting testing for arrivals by ship in Turku harbor and they've already put a testing location at the airport; one flight from the Balkans (last week?) had 20-something infected people on it, about a tenth of the passengers. They've recommended our whole region go back to working from home, which I've been expecting.
There were 14 new cases in Turku in the last few days and Turku had already asked people to wear masks when using public transport earlier this week before the mask recommendation was released today (according to the news, almost nobody was yet). But even in this new second wave, the infections are still quite low. That's 14 counting from more than one day (Wednesday there were 3 new cases) and Turku has a population around 190 thousand.
Meanwhile my vile and reviled redstate hometown has a population around 100k - so half Turku's size - and had about 1500 new cases and 80 deaths on Wednesday per my mom, plus over 2000 school employees now in mandatory quarantine after being exposed because they were forced to work when the schools reopened as normal. (My parents are at home and my mom wears masks if she has to go out, but my dad's a quadriplegic so they still have home help assistants coming in and out daily.)
My sister works in Baton Rouge in state government for Louisiana - another red state, but one with a democrat governor - and they've had like 15 cases just in her building but they haven't quarantined any of their contacts at all, they just "deep clean" whatever floor the people worked on each time - this in spite of the fact that in the spring the whole agency was working from home and it's fully possible for them to do so (their democrat governor was apparently, she says, threatened into rescinding the state of emergency and sending people back to work in the summer even though the numbers never really dropped).
It puts it into perspective a bit - that's like uncontrolled spread in the population and the authorities doing nothing and/or making it worse - but not enough to make the situation in Finland non-worrying.
It also puts into perspective that I have been right all along in trying to get my parents and sister to move to a blue state, if not to Canada, and that their stubborn insistence that the deep south is warmer and has a lower cost of living is just as annoying as I always thought it was.