Not just children. Masking outside is dumb for anyone, anywhere. Take away the bad interpretation of Singapore data, and it's damn near impossible to catch covid outside unless a stranger blows into your gaping mouth.
If you read the academic research that the C.D.C. has cited in defense of the 10 percent benchmark, you will notice something strange. A very large share of supposed cases of outdoor transmission have occurred in a single setting: construction sites in Singapore. In one study, 95 of 10,926 worldwide instances of transmission are classified as outdoors; all 95 are from Singapore construction sites. In another study, four of 103 instances are classified as outdoors; again, all four are from Singapore construction sites. This obviously doesn’t make much sense. It instead appears to be a misunderstanding that resembles the childhood game of telephone, in which a message gets garbled as it passes from one person to the next. The Singapore data originally comes from a government database there. That database does not categorize the construction-site cases as outdoor transmission, Yap Wei Qiang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, told my colleague Shashank Bengali. “We didn’t classify it according to outdoors or indoors,” Yap said. “It could have been workplace transmission where it happens outdoors at the site, or it could also have happened indoors within the construction site.”
I'm gnu to Gu. If vid cases are coming down precipitously, are flu, colds, pneumonia etc on the rise?
Chinevitable with people gathering again and social distancing mandates being rolled back
Well-documented that flu is highly seasonal. So, maybe not.
Yeah, it's golf season so when I stumbled into the house last Thursday puking my guts out, it was probably the 5 double palomas and 3 Makers and coke and not the flu. But, had I died, I'm sure it would have been from the Vid.
I'm gnu to Gu. If vid cases are coming down precipitously, are flu, colds, pneumonia etc on the rise?
Chinevitable with people gathering again and social distancing mandates being rolled back
Well-documented that flu is highly seasonal. So, maybe not.
Yeah, it's golf season so when I stumbled into the house last Thursday puking my guts out, it was probably the 5 double palomas and 3 Makers and coke and not the flu. But, had I died, I'm sure it would have been from the Vid.
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Go read the thread. I might read the full paper to see if the excerpts are accurate. Or maybe not.
If you read the academic research that the C.D.C. has cited in defense of the 10 percent benchmark, you will notice something strange. A very large share of supposed cases of outdoor transmission have occurred in a single setting: construction sites in Singapore. In one study, 95 of 10,926 worldwide instances of transmission are classified as outdoors; all 95 are from Singapore construction sites. In another study, four of 103 instances are classified as outdoors; again, all four are from Singapore construction sites. This obviously doesn’t make much sense. It instead appears to be a misunderstanding that resembles the childhood game of telephone, in which a message gets garbled as it passes from one person to the next. The Singapore data originally comes from a government database there. That database does not categorize the construction-site cases as outdoor transmission, Yap Wei Qiang, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, told my colleague Shashank Bengali. “We didn’t classify it according to outdoors or indoors,” Yap said. “It could have been workplace transmission where it happens outdoors at the site, or it could also have happened indoors within the construction site.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covid-transmission-cdc-number.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-bill-fire-fauci-biden-medical-officials-covid