The press crusade and moral panic against going to the beach ignores the now overwhelming evidence that the coronavirus spreads indoors.
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Here's Newport Beach on Tuesday. We see families grouped by household staying the hell away from each other because they don't want to get sick, as a breeze blows and a giant disinfecting UV lamp hangs in the sky. Let people go to the beach. Trust their risk assessmentpic.twitter.com/GeiCLR5mro
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My biggest annoyance with the beach stories, beyond the misleading use of photos to suggest crowding, is that they ignore the simple fact that beachgoers are changing their behavior out of fear. They are not going to crowd into public showers or sit in busy restaurants
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More scenes from an NYT moral panic article about going outside. Deep in the body of the article you learn that epidemiologists consider the behavior low risk, and that the rules (no soccer, no sitting down) are arbitrary and being enforced differently across New York Citypic.twitter.com/caX4a2nWd6
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Yes but they will claim the high ground by saying that they are *reporting* on those images. Of course they had to show you one to do said reporting. To do anything else would be editorializing and we can't have that. Can we?
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There are like 100 million viruses in every cubic foot of seawater!... Don't look at the ocean! Nothing to see here. (If I could be on a beach, I'd be on a beach... slathering on coconut oil and soaking UV, etc.)
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I don't think this critique stands up - even taking telephoto into account these people are not appropriately distanced on the beach, and this shows the *max* distance they will have. Parking lots, showers, etc, all gonna be much closer together.
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(if this is satire and i missed it, sorry.)
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