didn't count

how many "f**k everyone else" letter?

How about this one - qualified enough for you?

"Germany’s most celebrated virologist has some trenchant advice for countries contemplating a second national lockdown: hold your nerve, and don’t succumb to the pervasive mood of mass hysteria.

“It is time to stop all this alarmism. We can outsmart the virus using all our knowledge,” said Professor Hendrik Streeck, director of Germany's Institute of Virology at Bonn University.

“We have to realise that Covid-19 is going to be with us for a long time and we must learn to live with it. We can’t keep shutting down our daily lives and paralysing everything,” he said.

Prof Streeck supported the first lockdown in Germany. At that point the early case data from Italy was shocking and scientists were only just starting to grapple with Covid-19. The precautionary principle demanded draconian action."

But the calculus has shifted over the succeeding months as the pandemic evolves. The virus is less dangerous for a host of reasons. The precautionary principle now pulls in the opposite direction, calling for calibrated measures and a cool head. “I neither trivialise the virus, nor do a dramatise it. We must find a proper balance,” he said.

Posted By: paulg on September 22nd 2020 at 08:52:06

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