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As the May 3 deadline looms PM Modiji evaluates his corona lockdown strategies and opening options.

Because they're mobilized like army soldiers, except trying to save lives. In my family, women became either teachers or nurses. My greatgrandfather built a "petite école" in our ancestral village. I digress. Nurses around the world are emotionally exhausted at the moment. In a war, you have a clear reason why patients might die on you. With Coronavirus, it's a vicious game of peekaboo where symptoms belie the severity. A nurse may think she has this much power over the illness before anything serious, only to be cruelly misled. Doctors also, but nurses accompany the patients more and as my gut tells me, they are more invested subliminally. Doctors must remain clinical. A nurse, less. I remember when my mother was a write-off December 2015, I dove in quite literally to snatch her back from Death. There's a zone where exhaustion and the walls of a day's structure disappear because you're "in there" fighting with their inertia at facing the disease while it has them knocked out. You can't stop until the spark returns and their system starts fighting back for itself. I imagine that's similar to what these nurses feel. So when you lose patients, a part of you goes, like a soldier who can't turn things around on the battlefield despite his best human efforts. And there's just no time to grieve, not in a pandemic. You have to leave it until later. They tell confined people to grieve for their habits and lifestyle. Not many people look to the grief of nurses who are not allowed to grieve for people the same way as the relatives. Their grief is "second hand" but it's no less there and the victories, for those patients who leave their care healthier are simply too brief. Nurses literally look into the bowels of people's health. They don't get the accolades as much as doctors do, but like them they are essential. A big hug and prayers to those nurses on the frontlines. They're the presence that comforts the sick. Good job.

vienna hotspot!

In an interview with German daily Handelsblatt the Greek Premier  reiterated that continuing migrant flows arriving from neighboring Turkey are an “unacceptable development,” adding “we cannot continue like this.” Interview from Handelsblatt (in German) here: https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/interview-mit-kyriakos-mitsotakis-mahnung-aus-athen-so-kann-es-in-der-fluechtlingsfrage-nicht-weitergehen/25239922.html

Two Of Us, hotspots!

Scientists say these migrants may well have been escaping the effects of long-term "geological processes" such as vast encroaching glaciers. Warmer climes, as well as peninsulas and mountain ranges, could have offered shelter.