The US has five or six 'Doctor Doom' types on the Coronavirus.
Well....Germany has roughly three of these guys. One often appears on RTL-TV (commercial TV) and is what I'd call a mini-Doctor Doom....trying to stress good sanitation habits, and ways to avoid the virus. You tend to feel relaxed and comforted by his message.
The RKI expert (typically appearing on public TV only) is a numbers guy, and facts only person. He's what I could call a friendly 'Doctor Doom' who lays out countless slides and data.
Then we come to Doctor Christian Dorsten, who mostly appears only on public TV (ARD/ZDF). As 'Doctor Doom' status goes, he's a full-up ten.
Today, he came out and made a public statement that he expects the second wave to be noticeable very shortly. In quotation marks...."I'm not optimistic" is his big statement to the news people.
In various ways, he's urging the government to look at the ban actions of April, and basically consider starting them again.
If Germany reverts back to the April bans? To be accepting of a repeat? No....I would suggest that a quarter of the German public will not accept a second time around. You can refer to them as conspiracy freaks, or disbelievers....but they've lost confidence in the Covid-19 message or the actual threat.
Strictly a German thing? If you go look around France....same type of public sentiment....probably affecting a quarter of the population there. I suspect all European countries have the same brewing issue.
The bigger issue? If we wake up in late July and the urgency to start up the bans as started....schools which would normally open in August....will go back to the email or at-home program, and folks will be shaking their head (the previous effort didn't show much success and you can't run a school program like this for months).
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