Greetings from the rapidly-imploding Czech Republic.

The COVID-19 situation here is increasingly grim. Several regional hospitals no longer have any ICU capacity whatsoever. The government is - as usual - floundering, with the chief psychopath, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, frantically blaming everyone and everything for his total incompetence; his underlings, the various and sundry government officials, are aping his approach in a desperate effort to cast blame for their own failures.

We’re nowhere close to getting a handle on this. If current trends continue, it’s entirely possible that by the end of this month, we’ll be looking at ~40,000 new cases per day. A (half-assed) lockdown began a few days ago, but until the root of the problem is addressed, (and the root of that problem is that COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire in assembly halls, factories and production centers), nothing will be solved.

An analogy - we’re at 0:20 of this clip: Titanic Breaks Scene

and the government has come around to the idea that a lifeboat drill may well be a good idea.