On Wednesday morning, the goverment had a special meeting to talk about the necessary measures to cope with the (alarmingly) increasing number of infections with covid-19.
As usual, they came up with a solution that just doesn't cut it.
One could have hoped the country would go in a total and severe lockdown for a number of weeks, so that the curve would come down drastically. Nobody going out to work, schools closed, only permitted to go out to buy food, or see a doctor or buy medicine in the pharmacy.That would have helped. But now???
The only thing that can get us out of this situation is vaccination. And right there, Belgium as a country and Flanders as a region fail once more. At our local vaccination center they only work two days a week (!). About 1000 people. We know that they are only vaccination those above 80 years of age right now. Our former neighbor (86) got his first shot last Tuesday, and his wife (83) will get hers next week Thursday. And another former neighbot (92) also just got vaccinated. At this rate, it will take a couple of months more before they get to those aged 65.
We've cancelled our trip to France early in July already. We had hoped to be vaccinated by that time, but now it looks like this isn't going to be. Now we can only hope our trips in late autumn and winter will be possible!
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