Like I could do everything completely right and wash my hands every 30 seconds and never ever touch my face but unless I actually have a perfectly sealed spacesuit, if you keep on making me ride a crowded train every day with other people, I will eventually get infected
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Just like the other extreme - if I literally never washed my hands or showered and was the filthiest human in the world, but I lived inside a sealed space capsule and never interacted with anyone, I would NEVER get COVID-19 It would be IMPOSSIBLE
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And that's the most relevant factor The people who don't wash their hands and touch their faces all the time but DON'T INTERACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE are going to take a long, long time to get infected
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Doctors and nurses who are doing everything correctly, with the best PPE available to them, are still at the high end of risk for infection They're next to where the virus comes from and shit can always happen
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It's so fucking infuriating seeing calls to open up gatherings of people as long as you pick clean people, responsible people, people who are "staying alert", people who know the proper safeguards None of that shit matters as much as the number of interacting people
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I've been hesitant as well but there are some, kind of interesting studies and articles on them. I THINK one about a town in Germany with REALLY intense test and trace could not attribute anything to surfaces. All cases were tracked to large in person gatherings. Plus-
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The study of the call center in Korea, in a building with many floors and shared elevators, the outbreak was limited to one side of the floor where a call center was. Maybe it was increased cleanliness, but if surface transmission were like a huge thing, at least one article-
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Nobody is getting a chance to communicate this stuff to people in a sensible way that arms you with an intuition and a purpose and not just a checklist of rules to lawyer.
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