Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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vivster said:

@SvennoJ
The point of the mask is stop the range of the virus. Corona travels far even without coughing. With masks you leave the virus within your own sphere, adding distancing to it gives the virus very little room to spread. Even if it reaches another host the virus load will be a tiny fraction, leading to less severe outcomes. And add to that the high level of monitoring and the ridiculously small amount of infected people on the streets you have very few and even decreasing infections. Germany is doing extremely fine right now and there is no way it's gonna flair up even close to what the peak once was.

The only reason the infection rate got where it was was because the virus had absolute free roam for months, that's not something that will happen anytime soon. The only way for the spread to increase again is if the masks and distancing go away and that won't happen in Germany before the vaccine is widely available.

I miss giving fist bumps but I guess elbow bumps will have to suffice for now.  I used to do elbow bumps back in day even before all this shit went down when I would go to friends apartment that were sick or if I thought I was coming down with something.  I'm not the most social human but even I miss interacting with humans these days.  I'm not going to a pool hall or bar anytime soon though.  I'll wait a year or so for that I suppose.  Maybe I'll start going to park more.