This was the one of the many bad aspects about my employers response to COVID. They required a professionally administered test to approve your time off.

“Hey! I feel shitty and tested positive for COVID. I should rest and isolate at home, right?”

“No, you need to go out and feel shitty in the public, so someone else can give you the same exact test.”

Yes, that will be the effect, and they won't be told to come back in two days, they will be told to come back in a week for a control visit, just to make sure they don't get overrun by people with migraine and gastrointestinal distress. This change will make the situation worse for everyone - Patients, Doctors, Businesses, Insurance - not better.

It is almost like Merz is an idiot but Germans are too enamored by the smell of their own xenophobic, "superior" diarrhea from shitting their pants to see the obvious reality.