There was a sweet scent of summer in June. Belgium was opening more and more the floodgates of deconfinement, we began to see our loved ones again or to return to restaurants, while the figures for the epidemic kept falling. Except that the month of July went through this, with trends that are on the rise, and our hopes of regaining our freedoms were quickly calmed.
“This time it’s time to be more realistic,” says Geert Molenberghs in Het Laatste Nieuws. “Unless you go to the end of things and close the borders.”
Clearly, and even if it is not very happy to hear, we are still far from having finished with this Covid-19, according to the researcher of the KUL. Better not to make plans. “I’m not going to make friends in the tourism industry by saying this. I’m someone who likes to travel, usually several times a year, but I haven’t planned anything anymore. It will be day to day.” , he warns.
“And we will still have to live for a long time with the famous” social bubble “. When this wave is over, we will be able to deconfin again. But more at the level and in the same way as what we did on July 1. In June and in early July, everyone was thinking, except a few biostatisticians: ‘It’s over, we can get back to a normal life again, except for a few areas that are not yet open, but will do well one day.’ But this is not the case. There are still some things we can do when the curve flattens to a lower level than we did in June. We may be able to organize a football match with an audience next year. But don’t imagine crowded stadiums. Not before the vaccine. ”
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