Cav's Place

With Alexandru Rafila now calling for a national lockdown for one month, announced some time in advance, so people and businesses will have time to prepare, I wonder if it can be said that leading politicians are finally echoing the calls which have been coming from the medical field ever since this fourth wave started. […]

Romania has by far the highest COVID-19 death rate per million in Europe and the third highest in the world. The health system has been overwhelmed for quite some time, hospitals running out of space to even keep patients on chairs or stretchers, any intensive care bed that can be made available filling immediately, the […]

Though it passed the threshold of three cases per one thousand people on Wednesday, it was only yesterday, meaning Friday, that a meeting was held to decide that Bucharest will enter the “red” scenario from midnight. And even that took many hours, since the desire was to postpone such a decision until Monday, obviously because […]

I’ve been repeating this so many times I find it quite surprising that I haven’t made it into a post yet. Realized it some time ago, when I meant to send it as a message to someone, but since I didn’t send the message I didn’t write the post either, so I’m finally getting around […]

Since I tend to post the submissions I send to The Guardian, even more so when I need non-personal posts, I’m going to add this one I actually sent over two weeks ago as well. It’s a reaction to an article about moving to a cashless society, or to that one and a second one […]