As I say, this is COMPLETELY IDLE SPECULATION. i am just noodling what policy recommendations might come out of a discovery that noise spreads covid. Do we redesign restaurants to be like those 1950s places with drapery everywhere, instead of cool industrial vibe?
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Does noise pollution become a much bigger priority?
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Sorry, to be clear: noise is a problem because when it is noisy, people raise their voices to be heard, which facilitates droplet transmission. I'm not suggesting that, like, noise gives you covid.
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Places you raise your voice.
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Meat packing plants also apparently fit this pattern.
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Maybe the virus rides the soundwaves like a surfboard.
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I work at a jackhammer factory between two fog horns and we are all infected.
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Like World War Z? Everyone shush.
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You mean the actual noise, in and of itself, or the act of creating noise by many people in relatovely@close quarters?
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The fact that people shout when it's noisy, and shouting spreads covid.
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