Originally Posted by
oranjemakker
The problem is that the medical certificate isnt worth the paper its written on because it now seems pretty clear that many carriers are asymptomatic, or have very light symptoms (which either never develop further or only develop to fever etc later). Add to this the testing protocols set the bar to be tested very high there are presumably quite a few carriers in NZ unaware that would not be caught by a clinician.
But then again, WHO pointed out that asymptomatic carriers rarely infect anyone outside of their very close family, because this spreads through droplets. If you aren't coughing or sneezing then you aren't spreading the droplets. Obviously you can still touch something and infect others, but the main way this is spreading outside of close contact is through symptomatic people, that's the majority.