Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced a
national lockdown will go into place on Monday when the government
will attempt to stamp out the social life of its citizens in hopes
of cutting down on COVID-19 infections and deaths.
The lockdown – described as “reinforced” – will be in
place for at least 6 weeks and will shut down “non-essential”
businesses amongst other strict social measures.
“We took the decision of a reinforced lockdown,” De Croo
said. “These are the last-chance measures.”
At the moment, there is only one choice, and that is for all of
us to support our healthcare sector as much as we can. We have to
limit our physical contacts as much as possible.
The new measures will attempt to restrict anyone from receiving
visitors at home, with the exception of a single
“cuddle-contact.” People living alone will be allowed to have
two cuddle-contacts. ( … that isn’t creepily dystopian by any
means … )
Outdoor gatherings will be limited to 4 people while requiring
face masks and social distancing.
Teleworking will be mandatory for all professions who can pull
it off.
Professions that require close contact such as hairdressing will
be made illegal while funerals can take place with up to 15 people,
without a ceremony afterward.
Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said that “this is
going to bring our social life to a complete standstill. That’s
hard, that’s a lockdown.”
The country now has more patients in its hospitals with COVID-19
than at the peak of the first wave in early spring, reports
Euro News. On Friday, 6,187 people were hospitalized with the
virus.
Belgium’s lockdown follows similar actions from
France and Germany to control their citizens in hopes to
dampening the spread of COVID-19.
As we continually point out with our lockdown coverage, the idea
of using lockdowns – at least as a primary method of virus
control – is now
being rejected as a first line of defense from COVID officials
within the World Health Organization.
“You don’t want to use those as your primary, and I stress
that, primary, means of containment. Because in the end living with
the virus as a constant threat means maintaining the capacity to
find people with the disease and isolating them,” UN Special
Envoy on COVID David Nabarro has said.
Director of Field Operations and Technical Cooperation for
the�UN Human Rights Office, Georgette Gagnon, recently stated
that her office has observed a slew of human rights abuses when it
comes to lockdown enforcement.
“The U.N. Human Rights Office has observed a range of human
rights violations in the context of the COVID-19 exceptional measures
and states of emergency imposed by several states, and across
several regions,†Gagnon said, citing specific examples from
Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. “A main concern on
exceptional and emergency natural measures is what’s been
described as a toxic lockdown culture in some countries.â€
Anti-lockdown protests have been
widespread throughout Europe, appearing in the UK, Belgium,
Poland, Italy, France and Germany.
Now that lockdowns have gone to the extremes of government
mandating how many “cuddle-contacts†its people can have, the
only question that remains now is – how much more tyranny will
its people take?
Source:
Planet Free Will
Joseph Jankowski is an Editor-at-Large for Planet Free Will. His
works have been published by major news publications such
as ZeroHedge.com and Infowars.com.
Image: Alexander De Croo | Imagine Credit: EU2017EE Estonian
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“Social Life to a Complete Standstill†— Belgium to Head Into
Strict 6-week National Lockdown
