Early March 2020: Drosten calls Corona a cold & says in principle it poses no danger to individuals Mid-March 2020: He says people who hold „Corona parties“ will infect whole towns „in days“ and risk killing their own parents Imagine believing „the science“ changed in 2 weekshttps://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1390337245605994499 …
the bulk of the data available at the time were from China. Drosten's change in attitude reflects the change in policy approach to Corona. In early March, Germany still planned minimal, mitigationist interventions, and so Drosten tried to play down the threat.
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In the middle of March, Italy had locked down, Neil Ferguson had published his fantastically exaggerated 16 March modelling study predicting that lockdowns would save millions of deaths, and health bureaucrats began pushing for mass containment instead.
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I'm a hard lockdown NoCovid strategy advocat but Germany acted in time in the first wave and was on a good way to noCovid when Streeck, Laschet & Bild sabotaged any noCovid route.
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