Bit more complicated. You’re right that there’s a national pandemic emergency and the Bundestag has adjusted some of the laws for that (temporary basis), but for the most part it’s more that it defines a range of ‘tools available’ and gives legality to these kind of measures in general . When and how to use/implement the measures is mostly up to the states though (a few things are on national level). The conferences are an attempt at harmonizing those rules, which has proven to be somewhat frustrating at times.
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It’s all Corbyn’s fault.
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First Pfizer vaccine shipments being distributed today in Ontario. Sign of the times that the city of Windsor is one of the centers for it. Windsor is about a two hour drive from Pfizer in Kalamazoo, but the doses have had to come from Belgium.
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Have anyone here on the forum taken the vaccine already or known someone who had? Would be good to hear feedback on it. The PM of Singapore who is in his 60s committed that he and the senior members of the Cabinet will take the vaccine to show their confidence in the vaccine. In Singapore, through a recent survey, we do have a pretty high percentage of people who will take the vaccine, with only about 15% I think that will not take the vaccine regardless. How has the vaccine program in the UK coming about since it was launched last week?
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Wales into tier 4 now.
London into tier 3.
I suspect more lockdowns in the near future.
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Brilliant decision-making by so many governments. Ignore rising signs in late November and early December ‘because of Christmas holidays’, let the problem build, and then force a lockdown right over the holidays. It has happened with a few provinces here as well.
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They’re doing another half baked measure by the looks of things. Huge noises in England to close schools early are being ignored. Eaton of course does what it wants.
Sadly the recent lockdowns have not been as effective as hoped
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Absolutely, no opposition.
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Looking at the figures, London should be in tier 3. Surprised they haven’t come up with a special tier for them to keep pubs open. Would have been trouble up here if they had.
Said it before, it’s insane to unlock the country to celebrate a festival that most don’t believe in anyway. I like the period as much as anybody but the January lockdown is roaring towards us.
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@Arminius Btw, since you asked about East Germany a while ago - as predicted the numbers have been going up, particularly in some of the areas close to the Eastern borders - if you add to that some of them are the biggest AfD strongholds, you get a perfect storm. Saxony and Thüringen are now leading in numbers of new infections nationwide (relative to poulation size).
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One of the phenomenon that you see in various places is that jurisdictions that did fairly well in the spring and summer have populations that are just as fatigued as most of us, but have not been as motivated by fear and have larger populations of deniers/resisters. That is certainly what is happening in Canada’s Prairie provinces, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are all in rough shape having had very few cases in the summer and only localized problems in the spring. Alberta was very much in the vein of half-measures late until it became obvious that disaster was imminent.
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I posted this in error in the UK politics thread, but probably sits better here
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Who would want this job?
“I would say 70% of calls I have made go unanswered. It shocks and angers me that so many people just don’t care.”
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A knock on the door with a taser should make them reconsider.
The covidiots not the contact tracers 
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How predictable, the question is though is this variant more or less ‘dangerous’ to our health?
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Uh oh. Off to incorporate Pro-Med Covid2.2 Ltd right now.
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How’s those refrigerated lorry conversions coming along?
*"Kopstar had a thriving business importing frozen peas from Europe but given the uncertainty with Brexit decided to diversify into the transportation of chilled medicines after a WhatsApp message to Matt Hancock. *
Kopstar took several calls from vaccine suppliers 2 weeks later and had agreed a contract before the lorries were actually ready"
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