A proposal that has never been mentioned publicly, but could work If we assume that the majority of people stick to the measures* and yet there are still infections and pressure on hospitals, there is a real reason for this, a reason that is little talked about in public but undoubtedly exists. At the moment, we have people either in work organisations or at home (the rest of us are as isolated as we can get), and often there are two people in each household working in different organisations, which means that with the incidence we have at the moment, infections are spreading from one DO to another and consequently to isolated groups. * Measures are based on prevention of social contact AND protective equipment and together are NOT 100% effective. Social contact does occur despite the measures (exceptions are already foreseen by the measures themselves), and protective equipment (and its use) is also not 100% reliable, because where contact is necessary, infections do occur despite professional use. Janez works in Elan, his wife M. works in the municipality where R. also works, and F., her mother-in-law who lives with her, cleans in the hospital. Jože, who has a diabetic mother at home, also works at Elan. Because the protective cuts are not 100% effective, her mother can get infected in a few days from G., who went to the doctor because he broke his leg and didn't even know he was infected. And none of them violated any measure, and yet lives are at risk. PROPOSAL: If we agreed that for two weeks only one person from each household goes to work, unless they go to the same DO, we would get real "bubbles" for two weeks. Those where no infections occurred during this time could be "pooled" after two weeks so that those who were in the other safe "bubble" could also return to work. Those who do become infected remain in the original mode (i.e. those who go to work in such a DO are the only members of the household who go to work) until 14 days have passed since the last infection. Those who stay at home may work from home, be on standby, or take up temporary employment in the organisation to which another household member is already attending. 1. All residents register their family bubble, persons who either live together or are in close contact. 2. Employers and other organisations, meanwhile, register their own work bubble, for which they get their own code. 3. Each family bubble can connect to one of the work bubbles and tell the employer whether they will stay at home or go to work. Employers report which workers stay at work and which stay at home. 2. at the end of one week, the selected government body reports to each bubble how many infections they have detected among workers on both lists. The employer notifies the workers. 4. Those from safe bubbles are responsible for socialising only with those from other safe bubbles. 5. Persons from bubbles with infections during this period may only socialize within the bubble. IMPLEMENTATION: No special app would even be needed to "register" such bubbles, and most of the (working) population could be reached via tax numbers and SMS messages. This would stop the spread between individual organisations, almost as effectively as a complete shutdown, while the economy could still function and be fully operational within a few weeks. In addition, people could even socialise within such a bubble (after a week without any new infections within it). This would replace many of the measures taken so far (crossing between municipalities, curfews, and in smaller communities, a few more). ADDITIONAL SUGGESTION: Such isolation of particular groups would be further encouraged by a temporary tax policy that would distribute income fairly so that those who work and those who should stay at home are not in a significantly different material situation, for example by taxing employees' wages progressively (higher wages much more) so that these funds are used to finance benefits for those employees who stay at home. If they do not work from home, they should in principle receive the same compensation. PLEASE THINK AGAIN!