Without outdoors, people's immunity will decline. Mental health is already a challenge, it will get worse. Plus, if people are in groups outdoors, that group will go back together to a cramped indoor place—so much worse for infection! Much better to enforce sane distancing/masks.
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Yes, if this pic is real, this is nuts. Look, there are many studies of disaster response where the people are doing things fairly sanely until authorities come down with top-down, overzealous rules and then things get out of hand, and become much worse. https://twitter.com/MuftiOfMunchies/status/1246799075560894464 …
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I want people to distance. I want them to not gather in groups. I want to find ways to encourage both as much as possible within a sane set of rules and recommendations with which we will have maximal cooperation. Driving groups underground into petri-dishes indoors isn't it.
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A 2009 paper on how to get ready for the next pandemic. Yes to distancing, absolutely no to preventing access to outdoors. "..introducing high levels of natural ventilation or, indeed, by encouraging the public to spend as much time outdoors as possible." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504358/ …pic.twitter.com/2cG8zKlSqB
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"Close all the parks" is the new "masks may be more harmful".
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Okey dokey, I'll write this out long-form. A lot of "do something" impulse is being channeled towards unscientific scolding that will backfire and/or make things worse. And amazed how many people seem incredulous that ventilation/sun/outdoors are important in infection control.
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I guess masks for all would allow a less strict lockdown as summer approaches if we want it to trend favourably.
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The problem with over zealous policing is it erodes trust in public authorities. The interactions are no longer about a community looking out for each other, but about “not getting caught” and the underlying intent is lost. Any teacher/parent knows this cycle.
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True, people should definitely be allowed to go to parks and other open outdoor areas. The authorities should just enforce group limits and limit crowds but not close down parks.
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