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The 2nd wave is about to end in germany, the numbers are going down each day. Because of that they scheduled the schools to open monday (today in germany). But the teachers and staff haven't been vaccinated yet.

The official numbers released over the weekend suggest a steep increase in cases, with the variants which spread 75% faster.

This has been predicted weeks ago by leading scientists and chancelor merkel warned about it too, but it looks like some key people chose to ignore those warnings sadly.

Edit: The numbers for the weekend are usally much lower because they test less, but its higher than all week long.

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I have a 3 year old. Daycares have been closed (except for parents working in critical infrastructure) for a while now (two months? I have honestly lost track).

Today we got an email from our daycare that we can send him back in at the 1th of March. We were politely asked to not send him if we don't need to and we will do exactly that. But I am nearly certain we will be the one of very few parents that actually do that.

I don't want to risk getting him or us sick and I am nearly certain that we will lock down again in a few weeks. What is the point of this "opening up"? I can already see the cases rising...the R value is now again over 1.

Oh well...I really no longer care. My immediate circle of friend and parents are all very careful. My wife and I have solid work from home jobs and our son seems happy enough staying at home as well. I will just wait it out and ignore the general media like I have been doing...the rest of the world can honestly do whatever the fuck they want.

Wishing you best of luck.

I don't see the "steep increase" in cases you're referring to on any of the public trackers. So far the additional contagion of the new variants, whatever it actually is (I'm doubtful of "75% more"), is not enough to overtake increasingly favorable seasonality.

The numbers for sunday are usally much lower than during the week because they are processing less tests, but today its higher than at the beginning of the week.

Looking at the raw data [0], cases reported on Saturday/Sunday are a little higher than last week, but the weekday cases rates match up week to week. Seems more plausible it's just noise in the data to me, but time will tell.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

Hm, the Numbers differ from what is published from the state itself?

At least where I live, Tuesdays have the lowest numbers because that's when Sunday's results are reported.

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