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"COVID-19's behavior has been quite simple so far." What do you mean with behavior? People are still discussing how it spreads. The latest news is it travels
by thdrdt 6y ago
"COVID-19's behavior has been quite simple so far."
What do you mean with behavior? People are still discussing how it spreads.
The latest news is it travels as aerosol and that in badly ventilated rooms keeping 1.5m distance is not going to help much. And also that the amount of virus particles you inhale determines how sick you get.
So it is only predictable when we know how it is growing exponential.
The still ongoing discussion about how it spreads creates uncertainty.
- joe_the_user 6y agoOverall behavior - how it spreads and effects people in aggregate. It spreads by air primarily (aerosol isn't "the latest news", it's what's been said from the start with any other transmission method speculative). Yes, a zillion uncertain details. Covid is a simple as any of the things we meet in daily, in aggregate, as simple as rain or dirty. The behavior in detail of any of these things is incredibly complex, of course. The forms rain takes are distinctly complex but is nearly falls roughly downwards and gets things wet (exceptions to everything, of course). People have more incentive to look at the details of Covid 'cause it's much deadly than rain or dirt. But even more, lots of people use Covid's uncertainty to argue against any mitigating measures they find inconvenient - and that part is kind of despicable.