Yep & why having to rely on Twitter is a public health disaster. Their communication on ventilation & short-range airborne transmission has not been helpful because it isn't concrete, early or understandable enough. Twitter=very hard to use. Hence "outdoor" dining greenhouses.
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@zeynep that the evidence on the routes/mechanisms of transmission and pathogensis are well-characterized or resolved. I would make the same argument for the scientific uncertainty surrounding risk response to communication about it as well. -
Is there dispute that there is some level of transmission longer than one meters, especially in poorly- ventilated indoors? Even CDC and WHO say this now, I hardly see a lot of controversy over this anymore to be honest. What proportion etc. are good questions but unclear.
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But w/ all due respect, the assumption seems to be that if we communicate perfectly & ppl understand perfectly, they will follow recs. But restaurant owners listen not just to science, but also financials, social pressures, feasibility, their own internal risk evaluation, etc.
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Science comm will never be a magic-bullet solution. These comms don't land on a blank slate. People come up with creative solutions, strategies, & new norms on their own terms, blending these comms/recs with their own predispositions & fitting them into pre-existing restraints
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