You will understand the reason behind this photo at the end of the article.
Later on this afternoon we should know whether the Province of Granada passes the ‘exam’ in order to proceed to Stage One.
Amongst other factors, the Ministry of Health for the Central Government will take into account the number of cases of patients with Coronavirus symptoms, the number of confirmed cases, the number of tests carried out and where possible, the number of contacts the patient has made; i.e, family and work colleagues etc.
Other data examined will be the number of ICU beds available, how many respirators are in reserve, PPE’s and non-hospital installations that can be converted in an emergency.
Now bear in mind that it doesn’t matter whether you live in a mountain village that has never had a case of Covid-19, or in the capital where there has been a sharp increase in cases over the last few days – we all go forward together, so if Granada doesn’t pass the test, none of us do.
We point this out because many people think that Stage One starts on this Monday and the date is written in stone – it isn’t. Furthermore, a province that does not pass will have to wait a further two weeks before resitting the exam, so to speak.
We would like to leave you with one thought to contemplate, for those of us who think that we are out of the woods:
The majority of Easyjet’s fleet are Airbus320CEO which carry between 180 and 186 passengers plus crew. Since the 4th when restrictions began to ease off, the number of deaths from Covid on a daily basis is equivalent of one airliner every single day, crashing, killing everybody on board. At the worse part of the crisis we were losing the equivalent of five fully loaded airliners a day.
We have become numb to this daily death count and have lost the grasp of just how many people are dying even today, as you read this.
(News: Granada, Andalucia)
There is only one way to find out who is dying from this virus, or better said, what the increase death toll is: take April for the last 10 years, allow for population increase, and work out the average figure for April deaths. Then compare it with April 2020. Anything above the average can be put down to this desease. Then you can’t stop asking yourself if they died of terminal cancer or Covid.
An Italian MP quoted from an Italian Health institute report that 96% of deaths in Italy occurred in people with such underlying health issues that they were unlikely to have survived WITHOUT having the covid19 virus.
A similar report published by the BBC in the UK 2 weeks ago said that 91% of UK deaths had at least 3 other major health issues and were unlikely to survive anyway.
Perhaps your plane should be a Cessna.
I second your great analogy of Convid killing plane loads of people every day. It makes all those stats real; something I can wrap my head around. Thanks.
Great analogy Martin. With figures as they are it seems only sensible to still be extremely vigilant.