The protests, though, we're stuck with until we can break the back of white supremacy in America.
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The upshot of the findings is that the fairly gentle Japanese tactics seem to work, and some combination of mask-wearing and avoiding prolonged periods in unventilated crowded indoor spaces will be enough to stop the pandemic in its tracks without the additional lockdown drama.
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Lots and lots of linked studies in the article at the top of this thread, so you're just going to have to click.
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And one selfish reason we should fight with all our might for Taiwan and Hong Kong is the contributions they have made to the science of this disease, its spread, and how to effectively contain it, even if we didn't always listen
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This theory of spread leads to a somewhat testable prediction that the large outdoor protests taking place in the US should not cause a significant spike in coronavirus cases, and that the locus of spread will continue to be indoor spaces like nursing homes and meatpacking plants
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Similar study for Denmark in the Danish news recently (today or one of the last two days)
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>much easier to stop than the outdated "herd immunity or vaccine" framing suggests Not really. The suppress/contain/eradicate plans that have been put forward all along have assumed that the spread will be relatively easy to contain once the total numbers get low. They're right!
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I dont know how one really implements the study. The superspreading events happened at a bar, a hot-pot dinner, a wedding, a church, and a work party. If you dont allow places like this to open, you're still killing the economy.
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