Monday, May 18, 2020

Refugees and the Coronavirus

It's worth a minute or two of pondering, but if you looked over German news sources on Corona....this one story from the past week stands out.

The German authorities up in the Bonn area were alerted and conducted a 'bulk' test of occupants of a refugee center (Deutsche Welle reported this).  Results?  Seventy of the near 400-odd folks came up positive.  Another five-hundred folks have yet to complete the testing procedure.

What is pointed out and it's been part of the German handling plan since day one (going back to 2013)....is that you group everyone into a compound structure, and people live in close quarters with others.  It's an open invitation for disease to arrive, and easily spread.

The problem is that the system was never really a complete solution....but neither was mass unrestricted entry.  The approaching solution?  It wouldn't surprise me if the court system directs the German government to just hand out apartment housing immediately upon arrival and dump the refugee centers. 

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