"Avoid always presenting the worst-case scenarios"
"Epidemiologist Marcel Tanner recently left the scientific Task Force. He lambasts the Confederation’s pessimistic communication and believes that the good news about the development of the pandemic should be better conveyed to the population."
"The former director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel took a stand against the Confederation’s pessimistic communication in an interview with the "Tages Anzeiger".
He points out in particular that opening restaurants and allowing concerts would be very beneficial for the Swiss population."
""The variants are no more pathogenic than the original virus, and the vaccine here is also effective against the mutants," he explains, before adding that "we must now communicate this good news in order to avoid always presenting the worst-case scenarios". These only provoke anxiety and panic, "which are not very good guidelines"."
"An exit plan and a change of rhetoric called for"
"Marcel Tanner further specifies that "in any case, prospects and a plan for exiting the crisis are needed". The ordinary president of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences fears "never seeing the number of infections fall or returning to normal life any time soon if the negative rhetoric of fear remains the same and calls for reopening persist without being given due consideration"."
""The Federal Council must not open everything at once as it did last summer, but should propose clear concepts as early as possible so that alternative plans can be better prepared," he suggests. In conclusion, he stresses that "opening restaurants and allowing concerts will bring popular satisfaction and an improvement in mental health among the population.""
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