covid-19

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All I can say is that I wish you good luck and a lot of strength in the period ahead. I hope you can keep yourself and your loved ones safe.

Thanks, you too. My friends at other hospitals and in other cities/countries are in much more precarious situations.

The epidemic wasn't even on the radar 4 months before then.

Do you think it's better for our leaders to follow their chief medical advisors expertise or to make it up themselves and sideline their scientists?

Do you think if the scientists or politicians make a mistake they should stick with it as they don't want to be embarrassed or to change their advice.

Mate, no. With a dangerous droplet-borne viral pandemic developing, you shouldn't need your CSO to tell you whether or not you should shake hands with a few dozen people a day—you should decide not to, on your own, and if your CSO encourages you to shake hands, you should question their judgement and disregard their recommendation wrt handshaking. The cost of not shaking hands is, in this context, essentially zero.