Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection
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#2We've known this for like a year, right? All the spraying and stuff is performative, like the brown M&Ms of COVID sécurité.
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#3Did anyone call this early on? Would’ve been nice to hear a free and open debate from the start—I don’t recall seeing one. There are costs to doing things everywhere on the planet “just in case.”
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#4I’m fairly certain information like this or similar was communicated very early on in the pandemic. A lot of people I know were sanitizing things from the grocery store for the first few weeks but then it quickly spread that surface transmission was very rare so everyone stopped.
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#5the relative risk of fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is considered low compared with direct contact, droplet transmission, or airborne transmission 1, 2. However, it is not clear what proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections are acquired through surface transmission.
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#6We've known this for like a year, right? All the spraying and stuff is performative, like the brown M&Ms of COVID sécurité.
Hey, the brown M&M’s actually served an important purpose as a signal!
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#7We've known this for like a year, right? All the spraying and stuff is performative, like the brown M&Ms of COVID sécurité.
Hey, the brown M&M’s actually served an important purpose as a signal!
like, theoretically someone could have read the full Van Halen rider and thought, damn we're not doing all this stuff but lets do the brown M&M's thing because you know how these touchy, irrational artist types are, if they see one brown M&M they probably lose it!
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#8Did anyone call this early on? Would’ve been nice to hear a free and open debate from the start—I don’t recall seeing one. There are costs to doing things everywhere on the planet “just in case.”
Debate? I’d rather rely on scientific guidance and updates as more information becomes available. Within the first few weeks we received updates that it was highly unlikely to be transmitted through surface contact. That information became more and more detailed as time went on.
There is little debate in the matter.
Re: Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection
#9Did anyone call this early on? Would’ve been nice to hear a free and open debate from the start—I don’t recall seeing one. There are costs to doing things everywhere on the planet “just in case.”
Debate? I’d rather rely on scientific guidance and updates as more information becomes available. Within the first few weeks we received updates that it was highly unlikely to be transmitted through surface contact. That information became more and more detailed as time went on. There is little debate in the matter.
Well considering every public places seems to be disinfecting every possible surface every 5 minutes, seems like the message wasn't received?
Re: Contaminated surface has under 1 in 10k chance of causing an infection
#10Did anyone call this early on? Would’ve been nice to hear a free and open debate from the start—I don’t recall seeing one. There are costs to doing things everywhere on the planet “just in case.”
Debate? I’d rather rely on scientific guidance and updates as more information becomes available. Within the first few weeks we received updates that it was highly unlikely to be transmitted through surface contact. That information became more and more detailed as time went on. There is little debate in the matter.
> There is little debate in the matter.
I don’t agree with that as a way to run policy that affects real people living their lives.