The risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors is the same when socially distanced 6 feet apart and 60 feet apart, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America earlier this month, argues that there isn’t much benefit to distancing 6 feet apart.
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Professor Martin Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, told CNBC that the rule “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.”
MIT researchers: Risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors the same at 6ft and 60ft | TheHill
Actually the biggest health risk for not wearing a mask is the bloody nose somebody can get by getting in somebody’s face for not wearing a mask and accusing you of trying to kill grandma.
I use a gaiter because it is easier than the standard face diaper. But it is getting hot down here and it is annoying as hell to have an extra layer around the neck making you sweat.
Hat Tip Mark C.
No one in HEB, Kroger, or even Walmart has asked me to wear a mask in west Houston, although one did ask me if I would like a mask. I declined.
You’re not getting any mask relief from this study:
“In both examples, the benefit of face masks is immediately
apparent, since the CET limit is enhanced by a factor p−2m , the
inverse square of the mask penetration factor. Standard surgical masks are characterized by pm = 1 to 5% (73, 74), and so
allow the CET to be extended by 400 to 10,000 times. Even cloth
face coverings would extend the CET limit by 6 to 100 times for
hybrid fabrics (pm = 10 to 40%) or 1.5 to 6 times for single-layer
fabrics (pm = 40 to 80%) (75). Our inference of the efficacy of
face masks in mitigating airborne transmission is roughly consistent with studies showing the benefits of mask use on COVID-19
transmission at the scales of both cities and countries (22, 33, 83).”
The best you can say about it is that it wasn’t a “study” in the sense of real life testing, it was based on models. Modeling is only an approximation and the results from them are only as good as the inputs and variables applied.
They may be right, and they may be completely wrong. I’m don’t have the time or the smarts to evaluate the study and pass judgment on it.
Besides…. its hard to walk around like billy badass when you wearin a fear diaper.( see this young guy all puffed up walking like Clint Eastwood but wearing one of those chinese blue fear diapers)
A paranoid person could read this as “it’s not safe indoors, no matter how spaced out you are, so no one indoors! Lockdowns for-evah!!!”
Fauci has essentially said just that.
This bullshit ends when we all stop playing.
Saw a sign on convenience store door today…”Remove masks before entering store.” Looks like Texan store owners are back to shooting masked intruders. God bless Texas
Masks are the easiest form of virtue signalling. It will allow the woke to easily distinguish themselves from uneducated MAGA’s.
Too bad we couldnt get the woke to all move somewhere like jersey… then We the People could wall it off and go back to livin life…