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Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« on: April 11, 2020, 03:07:48 pm »
Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients

A group of researchers recently noted that they found no proof that “social distancing” led to fewer cases of coronavirus.

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on April 10, 2020

By Warner Todd Huston
 

A group of researchers recently noted that they found no proof that “social distancing” led to fewer cases of coronavirus.

The forthcoming paper has been written by Harvard psychiatry professor Alexander Tsai that aims to “assess the extent to which social distancing has restrained the growth” of the pandemic.

For the paper, social distancing was described as “executive orders, state of emergency declarations, restrictions on travel, school closures, etc.”

https://thewashingtonsentinel.com/researchers-discover-no-proof-social-distancing-leads-to-fewer-coronavirus-patients/
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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2020, 03:11:47 pm »
They aren't standing far enough away.

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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2020, 03:14:28 pm »
I'll do social distancing.

What are you better off with? Being in a packed bus? Or being 6 feet away from someone and I think Drudge Report came up with some article that maybe breathing the same air of someone 13 feet away could even be contagious.
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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2020, 03:42:04 pm »
The takeaway I get from this is that VOLUNTARY social distancing works. MANDATORY distancing, on the other hand, isn't helpful.
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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2020, 04:17:27 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on April 11, 2020, 03:42:04 pm
The takeaway I get from this is that VOLUNTARY social distancing works. MANDATORY distancing, on the other hand, isn't helpful.

I totally agree  :beer: :beer:
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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2020, 05:21:13 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on April 11, 2020, 03:42:04 pm
The takeaway I get from this is that VOLUNTARY social distancing works. MANDATORY distancing, on the other hand, isn't helpful.
Yep!  888high58888
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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2020, 05:32:22 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on April 11, 2020, 03:14:28 pm
I'll do social distancing.

What are you better off with? Being in a packed bus? Or being 6 feet away from someone and I think Drudge Report came up with some article that maybe breathing the same air of someone 13 feet away could even be contagious.

All you're doing is prolonging the epidemic.
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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2020, 06:07:55 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on April 11, 2020, 05:21:13 pm
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Re: Researchers Discover NO Proof ‘Social Distancing’ Leads to Fewer Coronavirus Patients
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2020, 07:31:55 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on April 11, 2020, 03:42:04 pm
The takeaway I get from this is that VOLUNTARY social distancing works. MANDATORY distancing, on the other hand, isn't helpful.

Yes, but it is a bit more complicated than that... City vs. town vs. rural, as I said before, are different logistical sets and should be treated differently... and perhaps your 'voluntary' is better presented as true quarantine vs. this silly quasi-quarantine which has been imposed.

To someone who is personally threatened, having preexisting conditions, the threat is real, and self preservation requires a true and mindful self-imposed quarantine, practiced with discipline. Whereas, by and large, quasi-quarantine means very little.

I have said that this quasi-quarantine may work on the personal level, but is nearly useless in the aggregate. And the numbers are kinda heading that way.
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