It’s this kind of simple, level-headed, fact-based information that we desperately need. And not the diet of empty cheerleading platitudes we are constantly being served in the UK press briefings. Trust that people can interpret the data if it is presented to them in a clear way https://twitter.com/benjalvarez1/status/1250563198081740800
Instead we get “Don’t do this, it’s bad. Do that, it’s good. Sciency-wiency, timey-wimey, we won’t trouble your pretty little heads with trivia like facts and explanations. Here, look at this shiny badge we’ve made.” 🤔
The way Merkel explains this is very simple but very important, so let me paraphrase it and expand on it here ...

If every person who has COVID-19 passes it on to less than 1 person on average, then the rate of infection will slow. We will see fewer new positive tests and deaths
People will still get infected and some will still die, but the reported daily numbers of new cases/deaths will fall. It won't reach zero until the transmission rate falls to 1:0
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