DailyKenn.com — "But let’s keep following those stupid 'stay safe' stickers on the floor," Laura Ingraham posted on Twitter.
At issue is the importance of the 6-foot social distancing rule.
CNBC's headline says it all: "MIT researchers say you're no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet in new study challenging social distancing policies."
Hear that Gretchen?
The author of the study suggested that public policy regarding Covid was based on fear mongering, not science.
Are you listening, Joe?
So, if you are standing 60 feet from a Covid infected person, you are no safer than if you were 6 feet from that person.
How so?
"It really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you're more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance," explained MIT professor Martin Z. Bazant.
The real problem is being indoors with a person or persons infected.
Take aways...
• What applies to Covid likely applies to other airborne viruses.
• Strange that we are hyper-sensitized to the Covid viruses but were called homophobes when concerned about the AIDS virus. Blood transfusions and other means of transmission claimed the lives of untold thousands — perhaps millions — including Tom Fogerty, Amanda Blake, and Elizabeth Glaser.
• This may explain why Texas and Florida are not reeling from the effects of Covid after becoming free states. It may also explain why Michigan's tough mask mandates and social distancing rules seem to have an inverse affect that impact nothing but the state's economy while making life miserable for everyone but the governor.
Excerpted from cnbc.com ▼
MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and John W.M. Bush, who teaches applied mathematics, developed a method of calculating exposure risk to Covid-19 in an indoor setting that factors in a variety of issues that could affect transmission, including the amount of time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, immunization, variant strains, mask use, and even respiratory activity such as breathing, eating, speaking or singing.
Bazant and Bush question long-held Covid-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in a peer-reviewed study published earlier this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America.
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