To the mention-folk claiming this is anxiety. Do you stop at red lights? Do you slow down around corners? YES COST IS A BARRIER. But if I can take sixty seconds to avoid infecting especially someone vulnerable, why wouldn't I? It's the opposite of anxiety. It's calm and carry-on.
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From the epidemiologist I quoted in the first tweet above, who did a great public service by testing frequently enough to demonstrate temporal the emergence of the line visually. Thank you!https://twitter.com/BQuilty/status/1471532691585740804 …
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Poor Ignaz had the proof, he showed maternity mortality plummeted when doctors washed their hands, and he was ridiculed into the insane asylum (literally)
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And his supervisor chose not to reappoint him to his position at the Vienna General Hospital First Obstetrical Clinic when his term there expired.
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Doctors! That's why I have patience with an entire Western society taking a bit of time getting used to masking. If we build some civilizational memory through new habits, who knows what we could eradicate in a century. Long game. So for now, insistence but also patience.
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There's a fundamental difference here though: for regular testing to be an effective measure, people have to be willing to potentially cancel all of their plans for the next ~10 days. While that remains a risk, testing is extraordinarily more "time costly" than handwashing.
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Is there a public health benefit to this practice? Certainly, but the costs shouldn't be trivialized, and with endemic Covid a reality, having to potentially do something forever is very different from doing it only in exceptional circumstances.
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