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You're going to see a lot of tsk tsking people at beaches this weekend because anyone can take a photo that makes them look packed.
The people who run the places the virus is *actually* tearing throuh--prisons, nursing homes, meatpacking plants-- deserve more of your attention.
The people who run the places the virus is *actually* tearing throuh--prisons, nursing homes, meatpacking plants-- deserve more of your attention.
The virus predominantly spreads in indoor spaces with where people spend extended time together. Here's a study (preprint) of 318 clusters. Only one had outdoor transmission. It impacted two people. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v1
-->we have entire classes of people forced by either their bosses or our criminal justice system to spend extended time in close proximity in indoor spaces. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/04/03/density/
Extensive polling suggests the *overwhelming majority* of the population takes social distancing seriously.
The problem is less that some people *don't* do it, than that some people *can't* do it.
The problem is less that some people *don't* do it, than that some people *can't* do it.
And when we focus on policing public spaces instead of un-policing the non-public spaces where people are forced into extended proximity, we get stuff like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/nyregion/nypd-social-distancing-race-coronavirus.html
