Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
by jobigoud on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:52AM
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This particular type of unintended consequence has been repeated multiple times during the crisis, it's puzzling.
For example here in order to avoid contamination in public transports they limited the hours of service. Consequence: same number of people took transport but in less time, increasing density and contact.
Similarly with the curfew forcing shops to close earlier in the day, more people gather in less time.
Depends on what you want to achieve. If you like a increase of infection, you do it like here in germany and close down hardware stores etc. multiple times on short notice, without telling when they will open again - so people try to storm them before they close, all coming closely together by doing so, which they would not have otherwise.