Earlier today, Friday 23rd October, Parliament approved a PSD bill that imposes the mandatory use of masks in public spaces for at least three months, a measure that can be renewed and which carries fines of between 100 and 500 euros for non-compliers.
The bill, voted in general, specialty and global final vote, determines that the use of a mask is mandatory (and cannot be replaced by a visor) for people over ten years of age for access, circulation or permanence in public spaces and roads, whenever the physical distance recommended by health authorities proves impractical ".
Exempted from the mandatory requirement approved today, there are "people who are part of the same household, when they are not in the proximity of third parties" or by presenting a "medical certificate of disability or medical declaration attesting that the clinical condition or cognitive impairment does not allow the use of masks." It is also not mandatory to wear a mask when "it is incompatible with the nature of the activities that people are carrying out".
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Just throw some figures at us with no link to the source and hope we are gullible enough to believe them! How can you compare e.g. emphysema a non contagious disease with a viral infection?
You say some flu virus has been rebranded covid? The Covid virus is not related to the flu virus god help us when the first flu patients arrive at the hospitals.
You probably put them all together so that they can get herd immunity.
1.1 million people infected with Covid have died. You can spin any fairytale theory you like but the facts remain.
1.1 million died
All had Covid.
You have difficulty dealing with facts.
Total respiratory disease deaths are no higher than normal. Some flu like disease has been rebranded as covid.
And how many have died at home like my cousin's husband? Who after a routine annual check up developed a cough. Did the doctor organise a test? Oh no he was given cough syrup. He developed breathing difficulties he didn't even make the hospital he died at home.
The doctor put heart attack on the death certificate and only after the daughter insisted on a Covid test was he and my cousin diagnosed 2 days later Covid positiv.
My cousin who suffered a cough and lost her hearing is too distraught to take it further.
So what are you trying to tell us? That the annualised figure (based on today's covid death figure of 2343) is way higher than in previous years?
The million plus that died were covid associated deaths, not people all killed by covid. Even now if you have a positive test and are run over by a bus 3 weeks later, you are added to the covid death total.
Where a distinction has been made the covid caused deaths are generally less than 1 in 10. So maybe more like 100,000 have died of covid globally.
We prefer to deal with facts rather than implications on here!
And you expect us to take you seriously David...
The statistics strongly imply flu has been rebranded as covid this year.
Sorry, I made a mistake with the covid figure and quoted the non-covid by mistake. The data is from DGS.
Deaths from respiratory disease March to October in Portugal:
2017 - 3,479
2018 - 3,721
2019 - 4,168
2020 - 3,753 (of which 2,276 covid, data March to 22 October)