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Originally Posted by O.city
The biggest problem I’ve had with all this is how we based everything on this “novel virus” as being and acting completely different than any other respiratory viruses.
We should have started with “this is how we KNOW” other respiratory viruses act/spread/etc so the assumption is this will be the same. Let’s work back from that.
Instead we had people wiping down food containers and groceries.
Some of that is on scientific people putting out things without truly defining it for people with non scientific backgrounds. But my bigger issue is those without any background reading stuff and running with it without truly understanding or looking into it.
They see things like “this lives for x amount of hours on this surface” and think they need to bathe in bleach. When in reality, “living on” and “being transmissible” are two different things .
Again, some of that is on the people writing it, but for ****s sake, take some time to read and digest info you read.
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Absolutely spot on. We have treated this thing as if it was from Mars from the very beginning.