a screenshot from a local news app, quoting hospital doctors who are explaining that if the numbers keep rising as steadily as they have (which they will), they'll have to do triage in about a week.
same app, about an hour and a half later, explaining that the measures that might potentially be decided on by the government (that doesn't let individual states overrule them anymore in covid-related issues) won't go into effect for "much longer than eight days" (which is when they want to decide on new rules in the first place)
(note that it looks like the measures they'll try to write into law in eight days are the same ineffective "uuuuuh maybe we'll close schools if the numbers rise above 50100200?? and stores have to close but with the exception of supermarkets and gas stations and pet stores and hairdressers and--" measures that are already not enough
just with an added "and we will forbid people from going for walks between 9pm and 5 am and mmmmmaybe employers will have to offer covid tests to their non-wfh employees (remember, no wfh requirement where possible, just "requests") but employees can refuse and keep coming to work")
but now the holidays are over, the "schools can beg to be allowed to teach remotely once this threshold is crossed (but the government can still force them to do in-person teaching)" number has been raised from 100 cases (per 100k people) to two-fucking-hundred
there was that one prominent politician who told a local radio station in an interview that "we'll just have to get used to higher numbers" and the noise the increasingly perplexed radio host made in response can best be described as "bwaaah?"
50100200??and stores have to close but with the exception of supermarkets and gas stations and pet stores and hairdressers and--" measures that are already not enoughit's going great!!