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I think we are very close to stage 2: no longer the focus on containment, but the focus on trying to slow down the infection (ban on events, people with flue like symptoms have to stay home, no hand shaking, restrict use of train, bus and tram, working from home as much as possible etc), so that the medical system won't collapse (if we are lucky).
yes, this is the message that has been tried to get across to the population here in Germany for the past few days
1. we can't stop the virus. We must do everything we can to slow the rate at which the virus spreads.
2. we must protect the vulnerable groups (the elderly, people with certain diseases)
3. We do what we can. But it is a task for the whole of society, everyone must help, also by changing behaviour, sometimes even by renouncing.
So the national health minister, so virologists and national health organisations and today then also the Federal Chancellor Merkel
And thank God: all pull together
here is also a debate as to whether all schools should close nationwide.
Most people are against it, because it doesn't bring much, but it makes problems elsewhere.
Many parents are working: who will look after the children? Then parents have to be pulled out of the work process, e.g. also nurses, doctors are oftn parents. Grandparents should not care for the children, because grandparents, as risk persons, are infected by the children.
I have read that children are infected to the same extent as adults, children do not usually get sick, but infected children produce an above-average number of viruses. That is probably reliable knowledge. If they are more infectious because of this, is not yet known. Or I have not been able to determine that.
I am not very familiar with other countries. But I have the impression that at least that the neighbouring European countries here have a more or less similar view of the current situation
