they are There, the Corona-skeptics. You are not a few. It is found in the comment of the online media columns, you can hear your discussions in the S-Bahn the next compartment. All just a Hype. Exaggerated. Media drama. "Stop with this theatre! It Gschiss, sorry huere!", a write to the latest Situation report from SVP-health Director Natalie Rickli on their Facebook page.

Sorry back, love Kommentierer, but you're wrong.

The train of thought is understandable. I don't know anybody personally, who is ill with the Virus. In road transport, more and more people die as by Corona. Even when skiing! And that's why I have to have my daily limit? Not to the football game? The spring holiday to Italy to paint?

There are many reasons for this attitude. First, the Virus is invisible. During a pandemic, no forests to burn – what you see in the media, are suits, the images of the response to the risk: physicians, in the protection of a deserted Venice. Kind of scary, but also kind of vague.

Secondly, the Severity of the threat is uncertain. The professionals think in terms of scenarios. In the easiest case, just a few people, in the worst case, tens of thousands die in Switzerland. How it will come out? No one knows.

so The Problem is: I have a interference in my personal freedom like, to get the risk for the safety of all in the handle.

sounds complicated, has dominated our daily life today. Urban driving speed of 50 kph, because otherwise, the number of traffic fatalities increases rapidly. The wheel with more than 0.5 per Mille: banned because too risky.

The Corona-disease is a new phenomenon, so the rules for combat are new. But there are researchers who have done a professional life to be nothing more than exactly with this Problem. And her everyday recipes are surprisingly simple: wash hands, shake hands, avoid, keep your distance, in the elbow cough, to remain with fever and cough at home.

It will take weeks or months until we know how bad the epidemic will actually be. We can us love Skeptikerin, dear skeptics, in the meantime, of course, the recommendations of the Doctors to comply with?

Because people can cost-wait for life.

Created: 09.03.2020, 18:17 PM