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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7946088" data-attributes="member: 6689464">I'm genuinely worried. Official totals in my country:  Over 300 suspected cases, over 1 hundred confirmed cases, first fatal victim who was never on the official cases list, not even in the suspected ones. It gets better, this one was a third generation case at the very least. Oh but the health ministry still insists all cases are first or second generation (iow someone who came infected from abroad or in direct contact with one of them). While all this happens, the leader of our country insists on not taking any preventive action: refuses desinfectant gel, won't ever wear a facemask and continues staging massive events and kissing babies across the country.  It is ok if he personally doesn't care, but now many people are emboldened by his example and are taking zero meassures to reduce contagions. Some even believe it is an invention or conspiracy.Also turns out that the national respiratory diseases institute -the most important hospital in this kind of disease and where all of the worst patients are meant to be transfered to- is unprepared for this task and is out of key supplies.Speaking of low supplies, since testing remains expensive, about $560 per person, they are refusing to test anybody under 60. (I guess it is also a way of keeping official numbers low)I really fear for me and my family. With all of this combination of imprudence, lack of resources and the health authorities stuck with their head in the sand .</blockquote>

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