Well, good thing we have no evidence to warrant that concern, great data of success from other countries, and also a lot of reasons to believe the exact opposite as masks are a strong signal that these aren't the normal times. So all good.
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I hope you are right. I’m a microbiology prof & a few days ago would have agreed 100%, but what I’ve seen the last few days (used masks all over the bike trail, people with masks ignoring the 6ft lines, et cetera). If we think of others in addition to self I’m all for masks.
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That is absolutely something we should be on the lookout for! This is what I fear with lack of trust—people were told falsely that masks don't work at all, and maybe now it's harder to communicate the nuance that they really help dampen spread but aren't magic wands.
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Replying to @zeynep
i didn't see the "masks don't work at all" posts. i'll go do some research into that matter - but curious what the hall of shame stories or speeches were, in your view? (dm's open if you don't want to put them on blast here, and if you have the time or interest in trading notes.)
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Replying to @lorakolodny @zeynep
What about runners huffing and puffing down sidewalks with no masks? And walkers following in their footsteps afterwards?
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The Montour trail in Pittsburgh has been PACKED with people. There have posts about bikers spit flying on people et cetera & bikers putting pool noodles on their bikes to keep others 6 ft away. Also lots of good people doing what they should to protect themselves & others.
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I think we should look into separating runners from walkers and other congestion management techniques (like with traffic) so that people can have access to outdoors/exercise (essential) without increasing anxiety/risk (not good!). Key is maintaining distance.
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Replying to @zeynep @lorakolodny
So only runners run in a huffing-and-puffing runner's wake? That doesn't mitigate the runners aerosol wake reality much, does it?
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Replying to @ztopiapub @lorakolodny
I would personally not consider running behind a runner outdoor to be high-risk, especially if everyone ran in the same direction and kept a few feet apart. (It's not at all proven that there is aerosol (tiny floating) rather than droplets (larger)).
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I wouldn’t either. The first time I saw a slow motion video of a sneeze changed my behavior forever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxgVkslD-k …
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That's an amazing video! It's also an amazing evolutionary story—these little not-even-alive things make us expel them so effectively that they can thus hijack other people's cells to make them sneeze to spread further.
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It is! Microorganisms have evolved like humanity and other organisms. My interest that past few years however, is how microorganisms (the microbiome) are actually to important to human health & wellness.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319931131_Katherine_Stephen-Bogard_and_Sherie_L_Edenborn_2017_Microbes_at_the_Table_The_Role_of_the_Gut_Microbiome_and_Related_Nutritional_Interventions_in_the_Treatment_of_Anorexia_Nervosa_The_Integrated_RDN_1 …
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