[ExI] mit covid study

[Adam A. Ford]

Lockdowns seemed to have helped in Melbourne Australia.

Adam

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, 09:49 spike jones via extropy-chat, <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> I am suffering from a severe case of confirmation bias.
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> I fear for poor Dr. Smigrodzki, who is surely feeling confirmation bias
> even more than I am:
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> https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2018995118#disp-formula-6
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> Unless I am reading this wrong (do educate me please) MIT concluded pretty
> much the same thing I did over a year ago: lockdowns don’t help because
> people stay indoors where viruses spread best.  Outdoor masking is
> useless.  Indoors, social distancing is practically useless: viruses hang
> in the air a long time indoors.
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> All this explains why the Sturgis bike rally was an apparent sub-spreader,
> the bike rallies in Florida and the spring break parties didn’t show up in
> the noise: those events were mostly outdoors where viruses don’t spread
> easily.
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> It explains why the lockdowns don’t seem to be helping.  It explains why
> outdoor mask wearing is pointless.  It is all about air circulation.  It
> took us over a year to figure out what was right in front of us the whole
> time.
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> spike
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