Originally Posted by
Fac6
Policies towards testing positive/close contact etc have changed and you can now isolate at home and do RAT tests there etc. Surely this is showing a move towards more relaxed and better things rather than the end of the world is nigh.
Unfortunately all these improvements towards a more rational covid approach are driven by necessity (ie running out of isolation beds at PB), not due to any sensible reasoning. In other words in some cases the right decisions are being taken, but for all the wrong reasons.
Which begs the question, when in a month or so the infections inevitably peak and start to drop and meanwhile they have built 100k isolation cells, will they go right back to unscientific and overzealous measures like 21-day look backs, three-week quarantine for inbound travellers, two weeks in PB after being discharged from hospital etc?
Unfortunately this all seems more bound up in ideology and face-saving rather than rational epidemiological control.