On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:11:23 +0200, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:
Then I'm pretty convinced that relaxing the currently overreaching policy will not noticeably increase the risk and might actually even achieve the reverse, as currently it encourages people to ignore and hide their symptoms and avoid testing for fear of being excluded from the event.
I agree on the aspect of wrong incentives of the current policy.
There must certainly be good reasons that explain why an overwhelming majority of health authorities around the world relaxed or dropped their isolation policies.
For health authorities? Probably lack of political support. (Also no imminent danger of hospital morgues running out of space.)
For politicians? If this was a book I'd suggest: Title: Cowardice, Capitalism, and ConspiraciesSubtitle: How politicies cave in to Business wanting workers back at factories and offices (no matter if they are sick or contagious for others) and right-wing lunatics (carrying Russian flags on their anti-vax demos) in the vain hope to keep their votes.
PS: Talking about science here's an interesting blog post by an Austrian MD summarizing new research on brain damages by COVID-19:
https://allcoronavirusesarebastards.digitalpress.blog/covid-19-strukturelle-schaden-des-gehirns-und-die-kognitiven-fahigkeiten/ (Text in German but the papers are of course in English.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe`-
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