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primarily to reduce the likelihood of infectious people infecting other people. This is not complicated. Every Single Avoided Infection Reduces The Pandemic.
by josephorjoe 6y ago
primarily to reduce the likelihood of infectious people infecting other people.
This is not complicated.
Every Single Avoided Infection Reduces The Pandemic.
Whataboutism is irrelevant.
The virus simply does not care about logic.
It only cares about math.
If I'm infectious and wear a mask and avoid infecting you, then you and everyone you would have infected do not get the disease (from me).
If I'm part of 5% of people who are actively trying to avoid spreading the infection, then it probably does not matter much and the virus spreads and spreads and spreads.
If I'm part of 90% of people who are actively trying to avoid spreading the infection, then it matters a great deal and the virus vanishes.
That is why we are doing this.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> Every Single Avoided Infection Reduces The Pandemic. No, you're trying to apply logic with incorrect data. Corona is so contagious that nothing short of a Level 4 biohazard facility can stop it, if that. > That is why we are doing this. No, it's just feel-good corona theater. We need herd immunity sooner than later. Let's get to 80% ASAP!
- Johnjonjoan 6y agoAre you implying the nations who have reduced infections to manageable levels have made their entire countries biosafety level 4? How long do you think herd immunity will last because its up for debate. What should we tell the families of the 0.08 - 0.8% of the world population who died when it turns out to not be long? Even if herd immunity lasts forever, if we get a vaccine months later many died for no reason.
- closeparen 6y agoWe don’t really have attribution on masks vs. contact tracing.
- Johnjonjoan 6y agoI don't understand how that's relevant to my questions
- morsch 6y agoSo ideally we'd all line up to get voluntarily exposed, 40% (the symptomatic) of the population, across all walks of life and professions, are bedridden for one or two weeks, and society just takes the 0.5-5% hit in population (no clinical care)? I guess some people really think that's better than the alternative.
- eveningcoffee 6y agoSo how do you explain the fact that not every health care worker has been infected? We do not have to avoid 100% new infections. Just enough that R0 goes below 1.
- RhysU 6y agoWearsAMaskEveryWakingMoment is not 1-to-1 with WantsThePandemicStopped. The latter includes everyone, maskophile or not. It is dangerous to equate "acts as I do about X" with "cares about X".