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As Best I Can Tell

As best I can tell the eminent Dr. Fauci has not commented on this other ubiquitous Covid piece of protection. As best I can tell he did not first say that they didn’t work, only to then swear that they were almost miraculous. As best I can tell his latest advice is not to double up on them.

No, I am not talking about masks, but here I am referring to the clear plastic dividers that are now just about everywhere. They are in supermarkets, in classrooms, and in a wide variety of different commercial establishments. I guess they are supposed to protect the customer and the business person from … ? each other.

From Townhall:

“Put up with the aim of blocking droplets from the noses and mouths of the COVID-infected among us, they became a sort of virtue signal for businesses to show that they cared about the safety of their customers and employees.

“Now that we’ve had more than a year of life peering through plastic at our fellow citizens, the science is starting to catch up with the craze and it turns out those measures may have actually increased the chances of people contracting the Wuhan coronavirus.

As The New York Times recently reported, “scientists who study aerosols, air flow and ventilation say that much of the time, the barriers don’t help and probably give people a false sense of security. And sometimes the barries can make things worse.”

The Times explains:

Under normal conditions in stores, classrooms and offices, exhaled breath particles disperse, carried by air currents and, depending on the ventilation system, are replaced by fresh air roughly every 15 to 30 minutes. But erecting plastic barriers can change air flow in a room, disrupt normal ventilation and create “dead zones,” where viral aerosol particles can build up and become highly concentrated.

A study published in June out of John’s Hopkins, for example, showed that desk screens in classrooms were associated with an increased risk of coronavirus infection. In a Massachusetts school district, researchers foundthat plexiglass dividers with side walls in the main office were impeding air flow. A study looking at schools in Georgia found that desk barriers had little effect on the spread of the coronavirus compared with ventilation improvements and masking.”

Wow, who would have thunk it! As best I can tell, the ubiquitous plastic barriers are going the way that the ubiquitous face masks are going.

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8/24/21

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