HOW SO?? German Covid cases feared to reach 100,000 daily. Germany has been in strict lockdown since December, with world class test and trace and masks mandated everywhere. God it’s almost like societal interventions don’t stop the virus 
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Replying to @gibble1979 @mrmarkdolan
Test and Trace while useful in localised outbreaks is absolutely pointless once a disease has become widespread. The sudden fetish for this is contrary to all previous public health advice - even the WHO said so in its pre-Covid pandemic plan...
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...The zeal with which it is currently being pursued is yet another example of the frenzy for untested innovations bred by hysteria and based largely on intuition instead of evidence.https://inference-review.com/article/on-the-futility-of-contact-tracing …
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indeed, there‘s no way for it to work even theoretically, given delays involved in obtaining test results and the fact that only about 20-25% of infections are even detected in DE. empirically it also has no observable effect.
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