We have very strong evidence by now that a major driver of covid spread is superspreading events indoors, at some distance from the spreader, but proximity at the arbitrary 2 meter distance is still being treated like a talisman against infection six months into this disaster.https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1279450138881265665 …
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This fixation on six-foot social distancing as magic makes people both too risk-averse (you don't have to panic that someboody walked by you outside) and too accepting of risk (senators not masking up because they're more than 6 feet apart in a crowded, unventilated indoor space)
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Knowing nothing at all about the disease or how it spreads at first, you would expect practical advice about it to change over time as we learned more. But that hasn't happened. The advice is stuck in the same place as in March, with only the welcome addition of mask wearing
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The beach closings are infuriating. "Masks and outdoors and a little distance OK, indoors bad" would be an effective and coherent message, but instead policymakers seem to be randomly pushing buttons in the hope of avoiding bad press.
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Beaches are open, parking is closed, at least in SF
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Beaches are closed, beach shops are open in South Florida. Guess which one generates tax revenue?
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Cocaine?
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