I've been publicly wondering for a while why the spread of the pandemic is so uneven. This paper has me pretty persuaded that the Japanese public health people were right, and spread is entirely dominated by a few superspreading events. https://covid.idmod.org/data/Stochasticity_heterogeneity_transmission_dynamics_SARS-CoV-2.pdf …
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I mean it seems that Japanese style restrictions (masks and distancing) may keep the virus from spreading rapidly from a low level. It's not clear that it works in a place like the US with a huge amount of circulating virus.
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The US is a heterogeneous place, so even if it works only below a threshold it's a huge step forward. But you are right that there are many open questions.
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Japan: not very much loud talking in public New York: lots of loud talking in public

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Yes, Cairo, land of quiet talking
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Lol lucky for us it’s literally the only sport our kiddo wants to play/watch. Wait, is that lucky for us?
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if you watch japanese movies you see a bunch of people who are very careful to never ever touch each other
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