YES;

-How governments deal with problems is "politics". The CoViD pandemic was an outcome of terrible politics...

NO;

-It can destroy the forum...distract on where the focus may need to be; "pandemic watch"...

DJ-I want to balance these two views...Most of the "politics" I post are from medical tweets...People dealing with healthissues frustrated on politics. 

The "CoViD is over" campain-saving the economy-during the pandemic still ongoing is another example of politics turning a healthissue into another pandemic CoViD wave...

Mpox is NOT over-just out of the news...H5N1 is very widespread in mammals worldwide...

The underlying problem is climate collapse. Pandemics as part of the sixth mass extinction...and "politics" worsening problems by wasting trillions on wars...

Without World War One very likely the Spanish H1N1 flu would not have become the pandemic killing maybe 2-5% of the global population...Older pandemics may have had an even higher CFR-maybe killing 50%+ of a population...

So-in my view-pandemics are very related to the background-including "politics"!

Respect has to be the basis for any forum (or any democracy) ! A forum is a marketplace of opinions...lots of different opinions on a "healthy forum"...

We are supposed to have different backgrounds and for that reason different views...There is not such a thing as a "100% correct view"...

On lots of other forums there is the same question on "limits"...so for "Pandemic Watch" it is NOT unique...

It ain't what you say-it's the way that you say it....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kjctTbMHA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kjctTbMHA ;

DJ, I earlier claimed there should not be much sports on this forum...well the "Tour de France" was hit hard by CoViD....