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by p_l
1598 days ago
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More like the data about COVID is used as fig leaf for metrics in other areas actually driving the decisions, or ideology/dogma. If you go with hard data and experience, you'd do hard moves like China (and many other asian countries did). In fact, similar moves have been done in the past in Europe (on the communist side of Iron Curtain) to stop epidemics, including even manual contact tracing. But because a non-trivial force in decision making has strong other incentives, and because of dogma like disbelief in aerosol transmission, we end up with really bad decisions with fig leaf of data analysis. |
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It's not just that COVID can spread via aerosol. It's more so that the western world extrapolated the definition via a study on TB, neglecting that TB needed to infect deep in the lungs.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
There is a scientific paper version of this, btw.