I feel like people are collectively forgetting humanity figured out how to deal with deadly pandemics thousands of years ago, based on basic physical facts about our environment and pathogens, without any modern theoretical understanding: quarantine works! Physical separation works! Distance works! - ThreadSky

nateo.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I feel like people are collectively forgetting humanity figured out how to deal with deadly pandemics thousands of years ago, based on basic physical facts about our environment and pathogens, without any modern theoretical understanding: quarantine works! Physical separation works! Distance works!

Reposted from Michael Hobbes

This feels like an absurdly bad-faith attack to me. It's true that there were no studies on *6 feet specifically*, but there is a mountain of evidence showing that social distance reduces COVID transmission.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

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cv-danes.com•1 day ago

It's like a return to medieval times is not enough, so let's revert to the dark ages. Wait, even the dark ages are not barbaric enough, so let's go all the way back to pre-history. They're not medieval. They're prehistoric.

thrive2024.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The Washington Post is such a rag now sad to see

xraynaqueen.bsky.social•1 day ago

and being told to stay in the comfort of home is a hell of a lot more comfortable than dumbed in the Molokai leper colony.

severn3024.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It's the post! They are trumps bootlickers now

mattweiner19.bsky.social•1 day ago

I feel like there's a genuine issue here, where the 6 feet stuff was of a piece with the handwashing/facetouching stuff where people were thinking of COVID as being spread by like spit droplets and not realizing that being in enclosed spaces with people was the problem. But we didn't know!

commentsandopi2.bsky.social•1 day ago

We knew within months but admitting that meant changing tactics and longer for business disruption. By the time WHO admitted covid was an airborne disease it was too late to properly educate the public

mattweiner19.bsky.social•1 day ago

And there were people who correctly pointed out, as we learned more, that outdoor gatherings were not a big deal. But that doesn't get you to "we needed to reopen" like some want--schools *and bars* are enclosed spaces.

(Anti-mask EBM chuds like Heneghan were stuck on the droplet model, btw.)

nateo.bsky.social•1 day ago

We should operate under a precautionary principe for deadly pandemics because *we don’t know those things in the early stages of an unknown deadly pandemic*! I’m sorry if the material conditions of modern-day society makes it difficult for some people to shut things down so society doesn’t collapse!

mattweiner19.bsky.social•1 day ago

yeah absolutely! a lot of the hindsight stuff, even when it's not dead wrong on the facts even in hindsight, just ignores that when you're trying to stop having freezer trucks full of dead bodies, the right standard isn't "are we sure this *will* work?"

ismaykwette.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ever heard of the Spanish flu ? Of ebola ?

Your feelings mean shit. Open a book.

nateo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Six feet? Nah, make it twelve, and let’s be outside. Better yet, have a physical barrier between you two, like a mask or even a brick wall. Don’t pick up anything they’ve touched, wash your hands, etc. Put the ship in isolation for a week. This is ancient knowledge from thousands of years ago!

johncluverius.bsky.social•1 day ago

The word quarantine literally comes from the fact that the previously used isolation period of 30 days was not effective in containing the spread of bubonic plague, so the Venetian Senate made it 40 days, which turned out to be correct, because bubonic plague takes 37 days from infection to death.

nateo.bsky.social•1 day ago

We now have a strong theoretical backing for why quarantine works, we’re able to statistically model from one-on-one interactions in different physical spaces to entire cities, six feet was an arbitrary compromise! It wasn’t even the bare minimum during the height of the pandemic!

geoliminal.bsky.social•1 day ago

people thousands of years ago very famously just fucking died of plagues all the time, you chowderhead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics_and_pandemics#Chronology

nateo.bsky.social•1 day ago

If I’m dropping references to Farr and Nightingale and hospital construction and sewage systems and miasma/miasmata do you think I’m also aware and you’re just choosing to interpret a statement I made as a universal statement rather than an existential statement? Nah, I must be a chowderhead

nateo.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’d say something about maybe adopting a principle of charity when reading a random post online but whatever, sick dunk, bro! https://bsky.app/profile/nateo.bsky.social/post/3lppak33ip22y

geoliminal.bsky.social•1 day ago

thanks!

geoliminal.bsky.social•1 day ago

i calls 'em like i sees 'em, brother

nateo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Get your eyesight checked, mate

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