Näinhän tuo menee, että vasta jälkeenpäin näkee kuinka kävi, kun tutkijat tutkivat.
Toki aika painavaa sanaa WHO:n Euroopan johtajalta tulee juuri tästä aiheesta:
“What strikes me: people are tired. Young people in particular have to contend with a certain defeatism. In various countries, we see the number of infections mainly increasing in people between 20 and 40. We need to reach these people with targeted communication about the risks.”
“We have to take [the new flare-ups] very seriously,” he said. “We’ve already learned our lessons the hard way. So we have to tackle the hotbeds very quickly and drastically, as Denmark and Greece did at the beginning of the crisis. This mainly concerns outbreaks among young people, who are often seriously ill and unbalanced for weeks. This virus is a tornado with a very long tail, even in young people.”
“In most parts of Europe, the first wave is not even over. How does such a first wave normally proceed? The curve rises, stabilises for a time and then falls slowly due to the natural course of a virus. When the number of infections went down, it was not because of the natural decline, but because of the drastic, restrictive measures.”
“If you remove the restrictions while the virus is still rampant, things will explode again. The lockdown was of course necessary to get the capacity of our health sectors in order and to set up a system of contact tracing. But we are now seeing that that is not working well enough in many places.”