Would like in the information on the quantum arash or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast. Your podcast you can also find us at. Science. Its been 8 months of masks of lockdowns and curfews of living in fear of covered 19 and around the world people are saying theyve had enough coronavirus fatigue is setting in not just from the virus itself but the restrictions governments have implemented to slow it spread people are gathering closer together wearing face masks less often. Some of the reactions have been angry demonstrations against coronavirus or. Strick sions drawn tens of thousands of protesters into the streets among the sea into the pandemic we understand that people are tired to get on with their lives with a vaccine likely still months away peoples desire to return to normality and the growing backlash against restrictions is becoming a major risk. After months of the pandemic its probably no surprise that many of us are feeling sick of getting sick in belgium people are returning to school and work after the summer break the number of new daily cases there is falling but the country has one of europes highest death rates nevertheless a study into speaking region flanders home to more than half the population shows 70 percent of people no longer support the restrictive measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus reporter teri schultz sent this report from brussels. The covered 19 infection rate is declining in belgium but 1000. 00 fatigue is growing so many months of isolation so many masks for me its like something really oppressive t. Bo who doesnt want to give his last name despises social distancing and defies the rule to wear a mask in downtown brussels if i. If i go into metro ok but if i walk alone in the street no no that is really too much and tivo is hardly alone in his opposition michael for stratton who represents the protest group virus madness says no one should have to follow restrictions except to the most vulnerable how many people would die if we would not take any measures at all that we dont know in fact you have no idea new Research Shows just one in 3 people surveyed in the dutch speaking part of belgium still supports the Safety Measures thats down from more than 80 percent in march when the pandemic 1st hit here university of kent. Professor Martin Feldstein who led the study blames poor official communication for the dramatic drop in motivation he says its been a wake up call for authorities to pay more attention to people state of mind i dont think we have sufficiently been informing people on the consequences of their behavior for them to take a wise decision and now that summers over everyones back from holidays more likely to be in enclosed places at work and school it could be a toxic coronavirus cocktail youre quite worried leading belgian virologist stephen vang says experts are stealing for a potential september surge he nonetheless agrees people should be given more information about actions and consequences and then more autonomy so people can have some freedom to choose what they think is appropriate for their situation and they can adapt their behavior but are people so sick of restrictions by now they wont follow them believes most do comply but if i dont obey them too strictly because its very difficult to do but i try anyway they come in i feel much safer wearing it we we must do it all together but skepticism is clearly growing in recent days open letters have been published in belgian media signed by hundreds of experts including doctors scientists and researchers suggesting the strict measure should be reviewed to see if theyre stopping the virus or just the vitality of everyday life. Basks always well as speak to naomi rogers who is professor in the history of medicine at yale should we be surprised that people are starting to feel tired of the masks and the restrictions. You know i really think we should be. I think that. As someone whos also living through this as well and as a story now. I see all around me a sense that people have responded pretty seriously on the basis that this was some kind of disaster so for a disaster you know youre hunkered down youre you for guidance and somehow there was an implicit bargain that it would end many parents for example extraordinarily hard with their children. Restricting their movement teaching them online hoping assuming that. The order that all the schools would be open and everything regard back to normal and its been a real shock when that is simply not show its like you say theres this bug and wasnt as if we did as we were told that we would get an early end to this pandemic and its not turned out that way for people you mention youre a historian of diseases is there a historical precedence for this is fatigue people getting tired of trying to protect themselves. Oh actually during the 1918 pandemic. And we dont know it as much about the experience of people during tend to mix as we really short but its very clear that people were so anxious to actually to be able to celebrate their return. World war one. Veterans and finally at the end of what we now know was the 1st wave of the pen to make they were parades in history everybody was delighted and it was also a feeling that depend gimmick had ended but in fact that wasnt true and then there was. A real sense of anger and frustration when influenza riam o. And as a major willed wiring problem a 2nd time in just a couple of months after that so we do know that they have been historical precedents both the air and here of waves and also the experience living through them if people are impatient because they want this to come to an end but what does an end to look like how can we say when this pandemic is over. Thats such an interesting question and i have to say that in my experience ive written about it again makes and are afraid widely about others historians just didnt seem to really problematize to question it seems to me to actually quite a complicated idea what isnt and who is it whos cool when you do and when does it feel like an end and in particular for example living here in the United States i noticed that. During the summer theres been a lot of cool for the simply to be the end that everybody should be able to go back to restaurants and bars. Go swimming in lakes and the sea just return to an ordinary happy summer time saturday they just have to say so this is the end thats where we are now lets just pretend thats exactly who theyre calling it the end. And this is being as you can imagine this. Resulted in great frustration by Many Public Health experts who say well but it but it isnt the end and people who werent people in essence are saying we have been a relatively compliant we have to listen to the science and you dont know when and. And i think that there is i mean i dont know whether its so much a question of communication i think thats probably one issue but i think theres also a wider sense among the general public and really Many Public Health experts as well which is that they dont know that they dont really have a good sense some of what the induced can look like or how to more confidently predict it and when your experts real when you realize the experts dont know. That becomes an even greater. Motivation for just saying well maybe i i can decide when the isnt thats the problem nobody knows well at least this interview is now listen and thank you naomi rogers from the school of medicine its been great to get your insights youre very welcome thank you for having me. Now have you got questions youd like to ask us about the coronavirus well getting contacts on how you tube channel and as science correspondent Derrick Williams will do his best. What country has lost the most Health Care Workers. This question came in a while ago and i wanted to answer it then but i couldnt find reliable data now we have some a new report released by Amnesty International last week revealed how the pandemic has taken a very heavy toll on on frontline medical staff all over the world in the last 8 months in all its said that at least 7000 Health Care Workers have been killed by cope and 19 worldwide since the pandemic began and we know that hundreds of thousands more have been infected with the disease while while making efforts to contain it and to treat patients the report said that over half of all confirmed deaths among medical staff had occurred in just 4 countries mexico the United States brazil and india thats not really a surprise those 4 countries also represent more than half of all confirmed cases of covert 19 a worldwide so so to answer your question mexico is the country that so far seems to have lost the most Health Care Workers to the pandemic and its lost them at a much higher rate in proportion to its number of confirmed cases than in other countries one analysis said Health Care Workers there were 4 times more likely to die of the disease than their counterparts in the u. S. Derrick williams their citizens of venice got a break from the monotony of coronavirus restrictions with a return of one of the citys most Colorful Events hundreds of facemask the nations watched on as the annual regatta sturrock a return to the citys grand canal ive been doing it since the 13th century thats our show thanks for joining us. Systemic exploitation in germany and turned. The nations biggest Meat Processing company. To keep labor costs low dubious contracts but not much more. From january the practice will be banned in the Meat Industry but other industries will be able to continue regardless. Of its contract workers closed. On d w. E india. And a marriage be sustainable. Dream weddings are on trend. Female entrepreneur in bangalore organizes the happiest day of your life. Without too many sacrifices and it leaves everyone with a cool conscious india. In 60 minutes on d w. Didnt beethoven in villages took to did too didnt want to do. What he needed. So many romance is still in beethoven. Courses are conscious always. The words without the biggest composer of all time i constantly begin to imagine a world class horn player sara willis on a musical journey of discovery. 2 with all 3. Starts september 16th on t. W. Producing more faster and for less money thats how turn us became germanys biggest Meat Processing company and how clemens turned us became a billionaire. But in june 1500 contract workers at the companys afraid of reading a book facility called coronavirus most came from Eastern Europe and lived in cramped shared apartments like the. Ether because the one said many people live in such a small space that might be one telling that to fix 10 people who had to. Contract workers get less money and fewer rights and not just in the Meat Industry. German labor minister who because higher now wants to change things to come in will ban contract work and temporary work in the core activities of the Meat Industry lobby group the pandemic called attention to contract worker exploitation in germany. The town of failed near fate of eating pork at the end of june thousands of people from Eastern Europe are essentially under house arrest guarded by police their work at the turn a slaughterhouse has been suspended. Around 7000 employees are important in. A few kilometers away a relief operation is underway fate of eden park residents have made donations for the workers one of the organizers is an approach needed for over 70 years shes. In fighting for the rights of turn us workers. Feel theres much more than we ever expected it happened at very short notice all right dearest give cat packages in solidarity said the web to see that this anger isnt directed at them but it other visitors theres something going on. Over 1000 packages have been collected containing food toiletries and even toys. Maina georgieva and stand mammy hayloft distribute donations and failed for many Chinese Workers live in shared apartments. In a loft in georgieva give support to Migrant Workers from Eastern Europe but. They translate for us here that. One bowl garion says hes been a meat cutter for chinas for 18 months. Were going to also go in for example if a veterinarian marks and he spots on the pig that are not suitable for consumption but one of his jobs is to cut them off. The man is employed by a subcontractor he gets the minimum wage 9 years 35 an hour he hasnt received a paycheck for months he lives here in an 80 square metre apartment with 8 others next door we meet some men and women from all of them in that the men are contract workers for 10 years and also live here and collective accommodations how many people live here we ask a 29 s. 3 room apartment we want to know more about the tourneys workers Living Conditions we say will give them a camera for 20 minutes so they can take some pictures of their place where you all see one of the men refuses to do it you must show the other one takes our camera and goes off to take some pictures. Look like theyre all younger but after a few moments he comes back another man appears behind him and he doesnt seem to like the contract worker talking to us. The workers. Told to give the camera back. Resisting we ask who the man asked. Is it that the boss. The fisher yes yes. He sends the workers back into the house it would be he ordered them to leave father that fits all right its a shame that happened i know i need to avoid because some of them wanted to talk to us and to tell us what was happening to them even if. I hope there are no bad consequences for them now and for the. Workers behind bences guarded by police. How did it come to this. In june 2020 there was a corona Virus Outbreak attorney and innovative beaten book germanys largest a slaughterhouse these pictures are from before the pandemic. In the ventilation system is said to be to blame for the mass infections as well as insufficient physical distancing between employees. One of the workers talked about his experiences in a cell phone video and. As long as you feel healthy no one worries that you kept working. They only cared about the money. They didnt care if we died or not. Its likely the employees spread the virus from the workplace into their homes many live with 3 to 4 people in a single room so the outbreak grew. More than 6000 Chinese Workers were tested more than 1500 more positive. Locals were also being tested. And soon the district went into lockdown again then turned his working conditions became a focus of global attention. A small village in the south of romania. Alberto gogu lives in this house with his family he literally fled from a data beaten book in mid june. As a contract worker attorney as he experienced the corona Virus Outbreak he says physical distancing at work was impossible. Even in the canteen it was too crowded dockery if it was he beats us in mind we were told to distance ourselves but that was impossible otherwise wed have to be standing up and. Alberto says that when the 1st workers got sick he and his colleagues had to work much more. He was doing up to 12 hours a day on the production line even when he felt sick himself. Because i told the boss im not feeling well i have to see a doctor she said youre not going anywhere. Alberto was afraid of catching coronavirus so he went back to romania in mid june. He spent the last 12 years doing contract work in germany but after his experiences in the last few months he says hes had enough. Of the. Thousands of people like alberto gogu work attorney yes even though the company doesnt actually employ them. Heres how the system of contract work and temporary work functions usually companies have a core workforce. Theres more to do it short notice temporary workers can be hired. They become part of the company for a limited time temporary work is rare in the Meat Industry whats common is contract work. This is when a Company Hires sub contractors to carry out a specific job like cutting up animal carcasses. The subcontractor sends its workers to do the job the original company pays for the work to be done but doesnt take responsibility for the personnel who do it they dont belong to the company. To turn a site of 8 of even both works with around 25 subcontractors who mostly source their workers from Eastern Europe. Of a total of 16500. 00 employees only half are employed by turn yes the other half are contract workers. Thats the system being a bush is fighting against when she heard about the poor working and Living Conditions at turn yes she decided to act. In 2013 she and others found. In a group to help those affected by exploitation of employment. She shows us articles about her work. As early as 2014 the group was pointing out contract workers often alarming Living Conditions. The doubt the plan of the building with the top and use of labels to show what wed see theyd be a bad and even that might be a bunk bed so many people live in such a small space there might be one toilet for 10 people to. Shows us a cell phone video she made in a flash shared by turn u. S. Workers. Living rooms are filled with beds 3. 00 to 4. 00 people sleep in one room. The bathroom is completely rundown. Today many say they knew nothing about the situation. But to enter fellow activists have been criticizing these conditions for 7 years in 2015 and they took their concerns to the highest level. Zeugma then economy minister and vice chancellor visited that night that he took notes as he heard about the situation. As it evolved into the see if he was so interested we found that now something would change when he left oh how sweet she said now something will happen. She could hardly believe what happened next. Clemence turn us on a guided tour of his Meat Processing plant in front of the cameras it was a p. R. Coup for the businessman the vice chancellor was full of praise despite knowing about the problems that turn us lat