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> but this brings up a more important question of whether any of this lockdown / social distancing even works. > I'm 99% sure it's completely ineffective. We br

> but this brings up a more important question of whether any of this lockdown / social distancing even works. > I'm 99% sure it's completely ineffective. We breathe the same air, touch the same services, and overall interact way too much for any of this to really work against something that's supposed to be so contagious. This makes no sense. Lockdown/distancing is about reducing how much we're "breathing the same air, touching the same surfaces" I've managed to avoid touching the same surfaces as a non-household member for 5 weeks or so and I'm pretty sure none of the air I've breathed has come from anywhere within 2m of anyone else. And even if it had it's all about probabilities. I've massively reduced the chance of contagion. I'm just rolling those dice a lot less often.

manigandham 7y ago
People are still going to work and coming back to their communities, including healthcare workers who are highly exposed. People are still going shopping, touching the same products while bringing them home. People are still getting deliveries of food and packages that have passed countless hands and surfaces. People are still walking around neighborhoods, touching gates, benches, doors, signs, tables, cars, mailboxes, etc. While I don't doubt your efforts, I do doubt how effective they are. I'm not sure why such a question is so controversial. People are messy, and we vastly underestimate our interactions with the world. EDIT: I'm reminded of the mythbusters episode about virus spread which shows just how messy we are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQ9Kl9CqUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQ9Kl9CqUU