I wrote an essay ten years ago about how the cure for scurvy was found and then accidentally lost again. I was provoked into writing it by a fascination with that sense of certainty. People are almost pathologically incapable of believing they don't know. https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm …
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Right? It has stuck out to me. I'm not sure how obvious it is that all those events would have group singing. And it genuinely makes me wonder if the Biogen conference had a group bonding sing-along. (Doesn't explain everything though.)
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Well it certainly involved presentations. Not impossible to imagine some were unamplified; projecting in a room involves the same sort of breath control.
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And: most of them have communal dining. Weddings: catered. Cruises: served from central kitchens. (Nursing homes too.) In NZ a girl's school (tuck shop) and a stag party were also transmission points. What if food is a transmission vector? There's your incorrect mental model.
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I thought "But how do slaughterhouses fit into this?" They eat at central cafeterias.https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/04/sanderson-farms-tyson-poultry-chicken-processing-coronavirus/ …
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