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In view of the flood of information on the subject of Corona, the doctor of the canton of the city of Basel Thomas Steffen advises “to be more cunning than the cavemen in us”, who react too strongly to such constant stimuli . And he presented rather bleak Christmas prospects to the Bundeshaus media on Friday.
No generation has gone through a pandemic with so much information, said the board member of the Association of Cantonal Doctors in Switzerland. But we are still Stone Age people who sense dangers immediately. Today, this leads many people to “go from a flash of concern to another of concern.”
The residual risk remains
Regarding testing, Steffen said that suppliers are forced to make more offers. There is enough evidence, but its use has been declining recently. You have to “go into testing more broadly.” Young people in particular would not like to go to a hospitable setting for this. In Basel there are now 40 testing options, including in pharmacies and drugstores of other private providers.
Steffen advises a precautionary retreat in the run-up to the festival in the sense of a prior quarantine so that Christmas celebrations can be carried out reasonably safely in small groups. It would be better to buy Christmas gifts now to reduce contacts. Then you can invite your grandparents that same day. However, a residual risk remains.
