Germany's Merkel cautions this is 'beginning' of coronavirus pandemic

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Source: nbc



"We cannot return to life before the pandemic," the German chancellor warns. "Our everyday lives will be different."

By Adela Suliman and Andy Eckardt

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday warned that the battle against the coronavirus was in its early stages and that the pandemic looked set to be part of life for the long term.

The leader of Europe's largest economy also lent her support to the embattled World Health Organization, which has come under fire from President Donald Trump for its handling of the global pandemic.

"No one likes to hear this, but we are living at the beginning of the pandemic," Merkel said in an address to the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament.

She also warned that Germany was still on "thin ice."
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as the posts say--Merkel tells the truth and treets her country folks like adults.

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Image: German Chancellor Angela Merkel confers with US President Donald Trump following the family photo session during the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Canada
Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump have diverged in their approach to the coronavirus crisis. Pool via AFP - Getty Images file
April 23, 2020, 6:18 AM CDT

[3Hotdogs]

1. More fake fukin news to get Trump outa office.

(For those who need it)

[AllaN01Bear]

3. hez fake news

[thesquanderer]

2. Assuming Biden gets in, he's likely to have a rough year+

People will want things to get back to normal, and they won't, for quite some time.

[FakeNoose]

8. Well, there is no normal any more

... so how can we "get back" to it? That is exactly Prime Minister Merkel's point. Oddly enough, people are listening to her and deciding that she's right.

[thesquanderer]

9. I think we will eventually get back to something at least very close to the old normal.

i.e. if there is a vaccine and/or a very effective treatment/cure.

I don't think clubs with music/dancing, theaters, stadiums, etc. will be closed forever.

[Mister Ed]

4. Oh, sure. What would a scientist know about stuff like this?

In time like this, you need a lying, tax-cheat, real-estate fraudster game show host in a position of leadership.

[truthisfreedom]

7. But but but... he told us how to fix it today! Inject lysol and stick UV bulbs up your butt!

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Yes, as could have been surmised from the get-go

it could well involve 3 or perhaps more waves, it could involve as we've learned this week mutations or multiple strains, it could well involve a year or two or more, a vaccine may be elusive or only active on some strains, it could still mutate.

Don't really know what to say. Life has changed. There is only protecting self and loved ones now. Consumerism doesn't matter so much anymore.

[Warpy]

6. She's a geek and science nerd, which means she's l

scientifically literate in a lot of different areas. I am terribly afraid she is right about this, given the pattern of other pandemics that first emerged in the spring. Summer is likely to be the calm before the storm, the disease spreading a bit more slowly until people are confined indoors again, at which point it will be back with a vengeance. I have never wanted to be wrong about something, although Dumpster Fire came close.

[roamer65]

10. She is correct and honest.