‘Enforcement’ Coming at Ocean Beach Park Where Weekly Drum Circle Crowds Gather
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My toy understanding is that the probability of catching the disease is somewhat proportional with the product of the level and duration of the exposure. You can get it after just minutes of exposure in an ICU room where someone very sick has put a lot of germs in the air, or after a few hours in a poorly ventilated restaurant where a mildly symptomatic person has been talking and occasionally sneezing two tables away from you. Getting the virus on a beach seems astronomically improbable, except maybe if a sick person kisses you.
Where are all the peer-reviewed scientific articles that summarize the conclusions of all the tracing that was done in the world?
But, you and I are simply guessing. My question is: where is the science? Why is it silent on this? Why all we know at this point is still the pulled-out-of-a-hat 6 feet of social distancing and "wash your hands"? Why is the media not publicizing more widely studies like [1] that you are 18.7 times more likely to contract Covid indoors than outdoors?
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.20029272v...
Analogy: If you play with fire and get burned, that is up to you. If you play with fire and burn your neighbor's house down...
Larger scale: Nobody else should enter a store, because these people should be able to do their thing without "putting anyone else at risk"? That's absurd. They are putting other people at risk, and everyone else shouldn't have to go ridiculously far out of their way to avoid the risk.
[Edit: Oh, yeah. What if I work at the store? At that point, "don't enter the store" is... somewhat lacking as usable advice.]
This is inconsistent.
Either the risk is on them, in which case it doesn't just apply to religion, it should be anything.
Or you think it has risk to the community, but religion should get preferential treatment.
They have no right to do this to the rest of us.
As a human rights advocate, though, curious: where is the line, in everyone's mind? Can we use the law on people who don't wash their hands after they use the restroom? Etc
We certainly did about the 1918 pandemic, where all kinds of limitations were imposed to attempt to control the spread. The cost/benefit with typical seasonal flu is, obviously, not the same.