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@9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2 There's no reason an "expert" needs to explain why you should wear an oxygen supply underwater, because it's obvious to anyone. There is a need for "experts" or (((experts))) rather, to explain why you need to stay 6 feet apart, because it makes no god damned sense to anyone with a moticum of common sense.
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@wishgranter14 @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2
The basic concept of reducing the spread of disease by not being close to sick people is well-established, but 6 feet is a totally arbitrary distance imposed as a guesstimate by bureaucrats who needed an exact distance to impose on people.
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@wishgranter14 @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2
It's not exact, but the basic idea of being further away/spending less time in the vicinity of an infected person = lower risk of transmission is basically correct. There's nothing that makes 6 feet special of course, it's just presented as an approximation of what's considered good enough for government work.
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@ArdainianRight @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2 Yea, but you have to be completely out of their vacinity. That's why you only quarantine people if their disease is deadly enough.
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@wishgranter14 @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2
I mean Covid "can" kill you, it's just not particularly likely to. And there's a lot of contagious carriers who aren't obvious, so in terms of slowing spread it does make sense. How valuable slowing the spread to buy time for a vaccine relative to the costs imposed is more dubious, but the basic concept of people not crowding close to each other reducing the rate of transmission is basically correct, even if the implementations were often absurd.
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@ArdainianRight @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2 But staying away from EVERYONE regardless of disease or not, is what they were asking. It was utterly absurd. The only reason to stay away from someone who's sick is if they have something that can kill you. In which case they should be in the hospital. Also, if they were that sick they would have debilitating side effects making it obvious to anyone to stay away.
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@wishgranter14 @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2
It killed about 5 times as many people from 2020-2021 as a couple of bad flu seasons would. After some baseline level of immunity was established in the population from infection/vaccines it became about as deadly as the flu, but for a couple of years it was more dangerous due to a lack of immunity against it.
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@ArdainianRight @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2 Covid is just the flu relabelled, and the flu can kill. It's just extremely rare.
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@wishgranter14 @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2
Plenty of disease gets transmitted on the NYC subway, it's just not deadly disease.
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@ArdainianRight @9c2e0a870413773cb915b9c9cd2e1cbd17e53ae2b0a86aba5e5bf0fc13c420d2
>crowding close to each other reducing the rate of transmission is basically correct
No, it's not. Have you ever ridden the NYC subway? If this were true, every New Yorker would have died long ago.
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