Ok I understand that one. It looks like cases by day are finally edging down, but this wave of death is maybe only starting the halfway point, and bound to get worse. I think I have it now. Or I’m utterly confused. Either is possible.
I would also postpone watching certain films until we get a handle on this. I'm thinking "Panic in the Streets" and "The Seventh Seal," to name a couple of examples. It is good for one's mental health to take a break from the news in my view and watch some good escapist fare. It depends on whether you can immerse yourself in the world of the flick for a while.
I had a conversation that was basically the content of this article with my mom yesterday because she goes swimming at a gym multiple times a week. She ran down the list of sterilizing that they do multiple times a day but had no answer for what they're doing about the possibly infected air.Excellent article and I’ve never hear the term “hygiene theater” before
Sorry if it’s been posted already
It kind of reminds me a bit of the half-arsed, split second bag check that security does when you go to an amusement park
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As a covid-19 summer surge sweeps the country, deep cleans are all the rage.
National restaurants such as Applebee’s are deputizing sanitation czars to oversee the constant scrubbing of window ledges, menus, and high chairs.
The gym chain Planet Fitness is boasting in ads that “there’s no surface we won’t sanitize, no machine we won’t scrub.” New York City is shutting down its subway system every night, for the first time in its 116-year history, to blast the seats, walls, and poles with a variety of antiseptic weaponry, including electrostatic disinfectant sprays.
And in Wauchula, Florida, the local government gave one resident permission to spray the town with hydrogen peroxide as he saw fit. “I think every city in the damn United States needs to be doing it," he said..........
COVID-19 has reawakened America’s spirit of misdirected anxiety, inspiring businesses and families to obsess over risk-reduction rituals that make us feel safer but don’t actually do much to reduce risk—even as more dangerous activities are still allowed. This is hygiene theater.
Scientists still don’t have a perfect grip on COVID-19—they don’t know where exactly it came from, how exactly to treat it, or how long immunity lasts.
But in the past few months, scientists have converged on a theory of how this disease travels: via air. The disease typically spreads among people through large droplets expelled in sneezes and coughs, or through smaller aerosolized droplets, as from conversations, during which saliva spray can linger in the air........
Finally, and most important, hygiene theater builds a false sense of security, which can ironically lead to more infections. Many bars, indoor restaurants, and gyms, where patrons are huffing and puffing one another’s stale air, shouldn’t be open at all.
They should be shut down and bailed out by the government until the pandemic is under control. No amount of soap and bleach changes this calculation..........
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
People are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.www.theatlantic.com
www.cbsnews.com
Yeah. I dunno what to say about California. Unfortunately it’s in the packing houses and slaughterhouses. With food packing being huge in this state, it’s driving a lot of it, and then spreads within the communities that work there and are relatively tightly put together. I can also assure you that with talking with people who live and work in those communities that cases count is way low.California and Florida hit new daily record high coronavirus deaths
The heartbreaking milestones come as the U.S. surpasses 150,000 deaths from the virus.
I doubt swimming pools are unsafe. Even if people breathe out in a pool, their air is very close to the surface, so it would drop into the pool pretty quickly. I read the theory about why kids under 10 are poor spreaders is also because they are very close to the ground. Although the virus may linger longer in indoor air, I believe it still drops to the ground.
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