FERNANDO SIMÓN EXPLAINS WHY HE HOPES NOT TO GO BACK TO THE SAME NORMALITY AS BEFORE
The director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simon, has stated this Thursday that as an epidemiologist he hopes “that we do not return to the same normality as before” in the sense that habits and behaviors must be learned for the benefit of a global society.
Simón thus referred, in the press conference after the Interterritorial Health Council held yesterday, to a question about whether the Spaniards will or will not return to normality before the pandemic and if we can remove our masks In day to day.
The expert has argued that “It is not a question of prohibition, but of learning habits, of learning forms of behavior in a global society“.
“As an epidemiologist, I hope that we do not return to the same normality as before“, he said, explaining that healthier behaviors have been learned in all epidemics and pandemics:”At one point they stopped sharing the plate they all ate from, at another time they stopped drinking from the same glass, at another they learned to cover their mouth when one coughs“.
“A) Yes I hope that from this pandemic we also learn something, let’s learn that a person with symptoms of a respiratory disease has to be careful, they have to stay at home and they do not have to go and infect others “, he added.
Simon believes that “we will return to a very normal situation“in which it would be desirable” that we have learned something that is not exactly the same as the situation we knew “.
For the expert once herd immunity is achieved “we are going to have very fast progress and there is going to be a situation much more similar to what we had previously. “
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