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Two weeks ago, bowing to pressure from the Kremlin, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin unexpectedly lifted the city's lockdown, which on paper had been one of the world's strictest. Since then, officials from the Kremlin on down have encouraged residents to return to normal life. They're being told it's safe to return to restaurants and to their workplaces — and as of Tuesday, they're even being told it's safe to go back to the gym. But, in the Kremlin, greater precautions remain to keep Putin isolated from the virus even as Russians are encouraged to go to the polls.
Guess we will soon see how this works out. I had thought that Russians, with their iconic cynicism regarding government pronouncements, would be reluctant to quickly return to normal. But that does not seem to be the case, at least in this report. Hope it works out for them. Their stats do seem a little suspicious, though. Their death rate is remarkably stable - with very little deviation, almost always nearly the same number, even as the other stats go up.
Meanwhile, in sweden, they seem to have gotten a grip on the situation. Only 1 person dead today. The graphs show by day. Top is sick, middle is hospitalized, bottom is dead. The interesting thing is that infections are quite wildly swinging, and many people are turning up infected. but hospitalizations and dead are down. it is important to note that the entire country has less than 1/4 the population of California and they have an extremely high standard of living. there is another chart that I havne't bothered to link here; it shows that although deaths are predominantly over 65, the predominant hospitalized range is 40-55.
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