Michael. First of all, it's heartwarming that you at the National Review have become such strong proponents for public health and the health of all Americans. I am sure we can count on you as we boost public health funding in the wake of this pandemic and expand the ACA. 1/
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Yes, and many, many of us, including
@JuliaLMarcus@EpiEllie have been talking about how to do harm reduction across the board, not just for protests! -
I know! I linked to it, and added mine to my piece on protesting during a pandemic. I loved the other pieces, too. But I think it's fair to say that there wasn't as loud an attempt to provide harm-reduction guidance on broader range of activities. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/i-cant-breathe-using-tear-gas-during-pandemic/612673/ …pic.twitter.com/FoxCBXFR0S
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I remain baffled that public health experts seem to have forgotten the example of the Philadelphia war bonds parade in the 1918 pandemic. Was that not outdoors? And there was no tear gas involved. Yet, it is infamous for contributing to the spread of that virus.
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No that was cited a lot early on! That said, parades also involve indoors (bars/restaurants). But there is also evidence from 1918 about protective effects of outdoors. Also that's influenza. We started getting good epi data on Covid by March. But relaxing a message is very hard.
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