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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is tragic really: I have learned so little about virus transmission over the past 10 months, it is nearly indistinguishable from zero.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Right when covid really got going, I felt it was a bad idea to enforce lockdowns, for several reasons: it causes other problems, big ones, financial, mental health, physical health and so on, but not only that. It appears to me, and did last February, that indoor transmission was waaaay the hell more likely than outdoor, because exhaled droplets hang in the indoor air, whereas outdoors they blow on away for the most part. So in some ways, being trapped indoors is riskier than going about one’s business, particularly if that business is largely outdoors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now the governor of New York is saying stuff that sounds a lot like this: businesses hafta do business.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Owww, damn, I learned nothing. My own biases have been confirmed, even though I struggled to overpower my own confirmation bias.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>