| Mnementh said: An interesting take: |
This explains perfectly why I'm worried about back to school. It's mostly theater of low cost measures to get people back to work (by having their kids back in school) Some extra cleaning sure is good and getting the kids to wash their hands more often as well, yet the main path of transmission is through the air and I haven't heard anything yet about installing UV-C filters. It doesn't matter how often you wash your hands, when you put people in a confined space for a long period of time, transmission will eventually happen.
They have some social distancing plans, split the classes in half (yet can't build twice as many schools before September) and have the teachers both teach class in school and teach online for the half that's at home that day. How? You still need twice as many teachers.
More security theater, keep the kids in the same rooms and have the teachers go from class to class. Erm that's how we got all those severe outbreaks in elderly homes, staff working at different homes.... No extra security doing that.
My supermarket also waited until the last day to use face masks (it became mandatory yesterday). Thursday still none of the staff were wearing face masks while stocking shelves (no gloves either) and cleaning carts (or spraying them with something, I clean it myself before and after use anyway) Plastic shields at the registers to make you feel safe.
Face masks aren't enough either. Depending on the type of mask they stop 40% to 90% of droplets, yet airborne micro droplets go right through. You need decent exposure to get infected hence installing UV-C air filters to keep the air clean should work great together with masks. Masks stop the big particles, UV-C air filters keep the concentration of micro droplets low to none. But those things cost money and aren't as easy to ramp up production as face masks.
So nope, we're not really safe and we're not going the whole 9 yards to eliminate the virus like New Zealand.
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