Thread by @70sBachchan, What's that in US units? 1 bar in Texas?https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1276714143068721152 85 ppl got [...]

What's that in US units? 1 bar in Texas? https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1276714143068721152

https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1276714143068721152

85 ppl got infected from a single bar in Michigan.

Japan figured out to avoid superspreading 3C's by March! Bars have all the 3 strikes - closed, crowded & close-contact loud conversations. Having a drink outdoors isn't hard... https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/10900000/000615287.pdf https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/michigan-coronavirus-bar-harpers/index.html

Residents are asked to self-quarantine after about 85 people who visited a Michigan bar get Covid-19

People in East Lansing, Michigan, are being asked to self-quarantine because roughly 85 people contracted Covid-19 after visiting a restaurant this month, a health official says.

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/10900000/000615287.pdf

Texas' Gov. Abbott regrets reopening: "If I could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars, now seeing in the aftermath of how quickly the coronavirus spread in the bar setting." https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1276546085956333568

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1276546085956333568

In the ongoing disaster that is the American corona response, this is point where Dr. Oshitani Hitoshi stares directly at the camera and says something rude about occidentals and their cultural habits.
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/diplomacy/pt20200605162619.html
https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1272687236065214465

Shaming ppl for going to beaches/parks when almost all superspreading transmission events have been indoors (crowded, loud) has been awful.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-exactly-do-you-catch-covid-19-there-is-a-growing-consensus-11592317650

Can't blame ppl when policy has closed beaches but reopened bars. Public shaming has focused on wrong risks.

Just 100s of such superspreader events would have taken place in past month after states inexplicably reopened bars w/out informing people of risks of 3C's. This from Jacksonville that is now the second largest outbreak in Florida after Miami. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1273018142076407808

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1273018142076407808

On June 20, day after bars were allowed to reopen in Los Angeles county, some 500,000 ppl got drinks, according to Dept of Public Health. Even if 5000 were infectious; crowded +loud+ indoor + maskless = 1000s of new infections. A colossal policy failure. https://laist.com/latest/post/20200627/a-lot-of-people-in-LA-went-out-to-bars-the-day-after-they-reopened

500,000 People In LA County Went To Bars The Day After They Reopened

On a normal day, pre-pandemic, the number is usually about 700,000.

https://laist.com/latest/post/20200627/a-lot-of-people-in-LA-went-out-to-bars-the-day-after-they-reopened

Churches have been reopened for a month.
"An outbreak at a Pentecostal church in Oregon ... forced an entire county to return to phase one of its reopening after local officials traced 258 cases..."
Dozens such clusters in churches nationwide.
Its 3C's https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/28/trump-coronavirus-spread-churches-342296

Trump’s dilemma: How to prevent super-spreading churches

Courting religious voters, the president fought for churches to open up quickly after the shutdowns. The consequences include coronavirus clusters tied to churches.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/28/trump-coronavirus-spread-churches-342296

The super-spreader event in a S Korean megachurch that looked like this was one single person — Patient 31 — who infected over 5000 people. Maskless shouting/singing in closed spaces is dangerous https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html

2019 coronavirus: The Korean clusters

How coronavirus cases exploded in South Korean churches and hospitals

https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html

This is First Baptist Dallas where Pence spoke today. Texas shut down bars on friday, but churches were kept open though singing aerosalises virus over long distances. Infact, its all the risky 3C's together: Closed, Crowded, Choirs.

Jesus take the wheel.
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/06/pence-dallas-church-jeffress-coronavirus/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=a6416f18-7eff-4435-a3ab-0de296baf2b5&utm_campaign=Hootsuite

8 days after bars were reopened in California they are closed. 500,000 ppl went to them the first night. Even if 5000 were infectious; crowded +loud+ indoor + maskless = 1000s of new infections. Reversal of a horrible policy failure https://laist.com/latest/post/20200627/a-lot-of-people-in-LA-went-out-to-bars-the-day-after-they-reopened https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1277320192188575747

tfw a serious country Australia orders 300,000 ppl to stay-at-home in Melbourne for a month after finding clusters coz it tests like there is no tomorrow
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2020/jul/02/coronavirus-australia-live-victoria-lockdown-melbourne-hotspot-suburbs-map-latest-updates

Meanwhile, Texas w the same population, has more cases in a day... http://metrics.covid19-analysis.org/

A state of emergency? Has Japan tried the proven technique of arguing over masks, bar-hopping and leaving it to god? https://twitter.com/SasakawaUSA/status/1278765653160329216

https://twitter.com/SasakawaUSA/status/1278765653160329216

Oshitani designed Japan's approach to see the forest, not the trees. It means that most ppl infect 0 other ppl, so when when you find one, you've got to look back to find the 3C cluster that started it.
https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/diplomacy/pt20200605162619.html
Excellent thread https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1278748748374577153

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