Various variants are considered; it all depends on the number of cases and the efficiency of the health service – said government spokesman Piotr Müller when asked about the possibility of a lockdown. He noted that the implementation of subsequent decisions depends on compliance with the applicable safety requirements.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
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On Monday evening (November 2), Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met with representatives of parliamentary clubs and circles; Its main topic – according to the announcements of the government spokesman Piotr Müller – was the epidemic situation related to the increase in the number of coronavirus infections and the government’s actions to limit them. Only representatives of PiS, PSL and the Confederation appeared at the meeting.
When asked about the effects of the meeting and the possibility of a lockdown, a government spokesman said that “various variants are being considered”. – It all depends on the number of cases and the efficiency of the health service. The coming days will show what the situation looks like. That is why we constantly emphasize the importance of complying with the current safety requirements. Implementation of further decisions depends on their application, said Müller.
A government spokesman early tweeted that the meeting “revealed the next steps in health care efforts to fight the epidemic.” As he informed, the meeting was attended by experts appointed by the PSL, members of the Confederation and PiS. “The Civic Coalition and the Left refused to participate in a meeting with experts from the Medical Council and government representatives,” he wrote.
During the meeting, the Confederation was represented by the head of the Confederation’s association, Jakub Kulesza, and – as Kulesza said – Michał Urbaniak, and also remotely by Janusz Korwin-Mikke. According to Kulesza, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was to announce the announcement of further restrictions on Wednesday during the meeting, the most likely of which is a full lockdown.
– The prime minister said that they were prepared for various variants from a full lockdown – the most likely one, which will be fuller than the one that took place in spring – to a less full, intermediate version of a lockdown, which – as the prime minister put it – is unlikely – said the Confederation politician .
When asked if the prime minister spoke when these decisions were announced, he said: “Morawiecki spoke about Wednesday”.
Assessing the effects of the meeting, Kulesza stated that “they are the same as in all previous meetings, i.e. time is completely wasted”. – I asked a number of very specific questions about the substantive and scientific foundations of the actions taken, called restrictions or lockdown. For which I did not hear any specific or related to the data and analyzes I provided, said Kulesza.
As he said, he asked, inter alia, whether the government has already read the Great Barrington declaration – it is a proposal by three epidemiologists from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford University Medical School regarding an alternative strategy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors of the concept are Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Professor of the University of Oxford, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Stanford University Medical School. Until society is herd resilient, these scientists say the focus should be on protecting those most at risk.
– I also asked about examples of other countries and I did not get any specific answer to all this. Minister Jarosław Pinkas said that “we have to fight to the end”, however, he did not refer to the Great Barrington declaration in any way. Prof. Andrzej Horban, referring to the postulates of this declaration, said that such decisions are a great responsibility, that it is associated with the death of people, but in no way did he refer to the fact that in the number of deaths we have already caught up with Sweden, so criticized by them, and at this pace in less than two months, we will overtake it in the number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants – said Kulesza.
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