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Comment by j2bax | Hacker News Reader

Standing in a crowded waiting area is ≠ sitting at a spaced out table maybe with a divider between you and the other tables.

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Here's a good infographic from a country with a seemingly better public information response. It talks about both droplets and aerosols. Simply put: dividers don't help much with aerosols, or may concentrate the particles from multiple users of the same space.

http://aerosol.nsysu.edu.tw/en/scopes/108

The particles are floating around in the air. They don’t hit the glass and turn around and go home, they continue to float and a draft or whatever will disperse the particles throughout the room.

Who gets to decide what size interior is ok? Or what crowded is?

It’s all arbitrary and you all fell for it.

Just let omicron spread, accept it’s another seasonal flu, and move the fuck on.

To be fair, I wasn't referring to my own personal risk tolerance but I guess trying to explain a seemingly arbitrary rule... I haven't eaten at a sit down for the last two years because I have small children and expecting them to follow any sort of strict masking protocol is unrealistic.

I also have multiple close family members who work in ICU and healthcare and I really don't think you want Omicron to spread faster than it needs to... That's an extremely shallow selfish mindset.

Edit: Just wanted to share an article from yesterday on the state of hospitals. I have friends/family that are super badass just like you, until they get in a car accident and need a bed at the ER. All the sudden shit gets a little more real and personal... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/11/1071568...

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