Their spread has shifted backwards and the number of those who can become infected has not yet been exhausted. You stumbled into a situation “where we were not optimally prepared again,” he said in the Ö1-Mittagsjournal.Wien. Popper was particularly critical of the lifting of the mask requirement indoors and the home office regulation. Experts, like him, “said back then that it’s hard to see why it’s now so urgent to take off the masks.”
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“What is the overall strategy?”
When asked if politicians would listen to science, he said: “I don’t want to sugarcoat it, but I do think politicians are trying to listen to science.” What is lacking is the “clarity of the goals that you want to implement at all.” In the meetings of the committees, he pointed out several times that one had to communicate clearly with the people what the consequences of the openings were.
“What is the overall strategy? The Werkel no longer quite fit together when it comes to the easing of measures, the test strategy and the quarantine policy.” Here the proposals that could be evaluated in science would be missing. Politicians have to clearly communicate that “the decision has been made to let things run free in a certain way with the positive tests.”
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Resources in hospitals at the limit
The consequences are felt primarily in hospitals. “We have high failures in the hospitals, also in terms of staff,” said Popper. “The resources are at their limit there” due to the months of exposure to Corona. This topic had “been neglected in the euphoria of the openings”.
The experts initially predicted a stable development in the number of infections. “We didn’t really see the increase that way,” said Popper. It can be assumed that a drop in the numbers would take a long time.
Source: Nachrichten
