“We peons don’t get those tests.”
I just learned that the Cato podcast I did about 10 days ago on ending the lockdowns went up on Friday, April 24. It’s here.
For some reason, I’m identified as a senior fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research, which came as news to me. As a result, my long time affiliation with the Hoover Institution was not mentioned.
READER COMMENTS
JK Brown
Apr 28 2020 at 10:53pm
Have you evaluated the 6′ social distancing requirement.
— CDC [emphasis added]
So the risk is in that cone centered on your and the recipient’s faces. This is the state of the art from the 1930s when the of Flügge droplets were divided into large and aerosols. The CDC is being quite modern in conceding that droplets can be inhaled at close-range, whereas the 1930 division is only gravity-controlled droplets and aerosols which can act at a distance. But inhalation can occur at distances outside of 6 ft in poorly ventilated spaces.
But the real issue is that two people back to back even touching cannot spittle into each other’s mouths and noses. One can also watch where you point your spittle-maker to avoid the transmission method. A cloth face covering might also help in deployment and receipt of droplets.
Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, collected and evaluate 54 super-spreader events (SSE) that occurred outside healthcare or household of the ill. 70% of those events were social, work, or religious group events. Beyond handshakes, embraces, group singing and yelling, talking over noise, the dominant feature was Prolonged, Close-range, Face-to-face Conversations. That is what people need to avoid. That makes opening bars and some other venues problematic. But this isn’t information the officials are willing to tell people on how to adapt to life with the virus. Random public surface transmission has low probability. And neither are is their data to support transmission by brief random passers-by even within the social distancing.
Treat Americans as adult or find out how they deal with those who don’t.
David Henderson
May 2 2020 at 9:56am
Thanks very much. This will definitely help me in my interactions with people.
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