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    I find it a little disconcerting that my fellow Munichers don't seem to be taking this idea of social distancing and self-isolation very seriously.

    A couple of stats:

    Population: +/- 1.5 million
    Current number of infections (as of 18 March): 509, up 150 from the previous day

    Yesterday, it was (as it is today) sunny and 19°, a perfect — if really not normal for the time of year — late spring day. I decided to take a walk by the river, because I knew the weather was supposed to turn super-crap at the weekend and wanted to take advantage of it whilst I still could.

    The problem is, everyone else in the city seemed to have the same idea. People out in large-ish groups walking, cycling, jogging, hanging out in parks and on the grassy terraces along the Isar river. You would never have known there's anything remotely unusual going on.

    Now, I'm guilty of having gone out. If I'd been sensible, I'd have stayed home, but I was already getting really shack-wacky on Day 2 of our state of emergency. But, I was out solo — not with a group of mates, and certainly not lounging in a park or along the river with another group of people less than a metre away from me on any given side.

    Meanwhile — next door in France (which I believe still has fewer cases than in Germany by a good margin*) — cops are issuing citations and fines to anyone caught being outside their homes for an unvalid reason.

    Is this really what Germans want, too? By the looks of their behaviour in Munich, anyway, it certainly seems like it.

    *Weirdly, France has had far, far more deaths than Germany so far, despite having +/- 4000 fewer cases. I don't get it.

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    • same in the UK. The people not taking it seriously are just hastening a full lockdown. Now's the time to prove you're not an idiot.Fax_Benson
    • If people keep behaving like this, they're just prolonging the shit-shwo that will be this life disruption. I know it's a shock to find ourselves here to ...Continuity
    • I'd say number of cases is completely unreliable. It just depends on testing.yuekit
    • ... begin with, but we've got to get over that shock ASAP, and act.Continuity
    • *shit-showContinuity
    • Germany could be a few weeks behind Italy and Spain due to the weather the virus is able to thrive in. Some scientists did a study of weather patterns andyuekit
    • @yuekit: understood and agreed, but it's the only available data we've got right now, so one does what one can with what one has.Continuity
    • suggested Germany and the UK will become more vulnerable during April as it warms up there. Not trying to alarm you but stay safe!yuekit
    • https://papers.ssrn.…yuekit
    • But yeah, it could be that the virus is more lethal in some areas due to factors we just aren't aware of. So many unknowns.yuekit
    • The unknowns specific to the illness, I can more or less live with. It's people's continued behaviours I'm having trouble stomaching.Continuity
    • same in austria, the cops dispersing more than 5 people in a crowd since monday..neverscared
    • UK said 'avoid' pubs and bars rather than a ban. People had the chance to meet a friend and have a pint - not go on a works jolly-up for St P's day.Fax_Benson
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