A lot of the time even though people were supposedly doing something outdoors, they were also indoors to some extent with the same group of people.
Doubt that a bunch of people congregating in an open field would lead to the same thing unless they were packed in like a concert.
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Or maybe they were just crowded together and not wearing masks
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That was a largely indoor event misrepresented by them as being outdoors to pretend they were putting any care into avoiding spreading COVID. There are a bunch of pictures of them shaking hands indoors without masks, etc. so it definitely wasn't just in that outdoor area.
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Let me ask you this one as well then
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There's a widely circulated claim that "there is not a single documented COVID-19 infection anywhere in the world from outdoor transmission"
Do you agree that claim is false? Or do you think all of the documented cases of outdoor transmission are false/misleading?
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There's obviously outdoor transmission but most of these supposedly outdoor superspreader events were largely indoor events.
I don't think fully vaccinated people (with the mRNA vaccines) meeting outdoors without being crowded together matters much even with Delta variant.
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Getting people to do things outdoors with some level of social distancing was a very underused approach. So, for example, they wanted to get kids back in school ASAP, but kids could be at school socializing and letting their parents get work done while being outdoors all day.
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Well, I don't really understand the point then. Doing as much as possible outdoors and opening up all the windows indoors are perfectly good ways to reduce spread. Sure, everyone wearing properly fitted N95 masks would do more, but it's not exclusive at all.
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When I went to get my 1st vaccine, almost everyone including nurses/doctors were just wearing a cloth/surgical mask in a poorly ventilated clinic, with people spaced 6 feet apart in chairs waiting to get the vaccine but mostly waiting 15 mins for adverse reactions afterwards.
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Basically a hot box for COVID. I'm glad I wore a proper N95 mask there because I think it's quite possible I'd have gotten COVID alongside the vaccine otherwise.
I wasn't wearing that uncomfortable thing outdoors though, just staying away from people. It's a risk calculation.