It's going to be challenged in court

I think it's kind of a good idea.

I have a feeling they know it won't stand up to a court challenge, but talking about it might be enough to nudge more people into vaccinating anyway.

yeah

They've already "lost the face" by trying to force healthcare providers to get vaccinated; they had to backtrack because they would have lost too many employees. I hope they have learned their lesson this time and thought this out well before talking about this...

If it were chefs not storing food at the right temperature, we wouldn't even bat an eye

it's inexcusable that anyone in healthcare is not vaccinated (barring medical exceptions like allergies)

Yeah, I'm with you there...

If the chefs were all to be fired and suddenly most restaurants and also regular grocery food is no longer available, people would also take it back.

I'm not sure it's "all the chefs" though...

Just enough. It's not all the nurses that refuse vaccination either.

No, but the demand is not managed in the same way in a restaurant and in an hospital.

One could say being a nurse during covid times is unreasonable, so you only have unreasonable nurses left.

Some of them just quit...

Yeah, the reasonable ones.

I don't think I can judge that...

In other news, Berlin is at 918.5 now. We should break the 1000 mark easily tomorrow.

Unless we run out of test or something.

Also hospitalization and ICU usage are slowly catching up, so maybe eventually someone will consider doing something about it.

That's the number of cases?

Average number of cases per 100k people over the last 7 days.

Ah!

So, almost 1% are infected.

They've stopped tested here. To many tests to do and not enough people to do the tests.

Apparently, the number of new patients going to the hospital has stabilized.

It looks like we're reaching the limits of test capabilities (blue number is tests done, gray is capabilities), but it's difficult to read that graph.

Apparently over the short term it's totally possible to test more than we have. I assume that stockpiles of tests are used up or something. I don't really know.

It might also just be measurement errors. There was a time you could just open a test center, tell the government you tested 1000 people and got payed 1000*18€ no questions asked, which plenty of people took advantage of.

Maybe is the capacity to analyze those tests? Or are these "quick tests"?

It's laboratory tests. They do specify a source that I would need to look up.

I guess laboratory tests are limited by personnel, not by material, so no stockpiling.

Yeah; I suppose the can stockpile the patient samples, but not over a certain capacity, I suppose.

Oooh, they updated the variant statistics. Delta is getting pushed out by omicron as expected, but it seems the yellow "unknown mutations" are also doing fairly well, indicating that we can indeed breed out own variants.

🎉

"40% of nursing staff in Germany is considering switching occupation"

@nwp That's been Ontario's strategy to curb the numbers - just stop testing!

(These graphs are just Toronto)

Trump said that once. "If we didn't test so much we'd have fewer cases"

We have similar values for Quebec. Not testing doesn't make the virus go away. They measure how many folks are in hospital now...

with the availability of home testing kits (positives not reported), this may also help reduce the number of positives

Yep, that too

One of our two med provider systems has testricted rapid testing due to material supplies. The rate of testing they were doing was on a trajectory to out pace their supply, so presently they only rappid test ER & hopsital intake. Not sure about about the other hospital system.

And our public health has switched to allow rapid or slow testing, but presently doesn't allow both at the same time.

We've always used public health, but from what I understand from friends, getting at home kits is locally very difficult as most places are now out of stock.

They can still test sewage for a cheap accurate statistic, but it doesn't help with putting the infected in quarantine.

@Evorlor See, for that to happen, at home tests would need to be available... 😭