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Once again, this goes to show the fundamental misunderstanding of this virus that is pervasive among the public and people like Nate who think they understand. 1/x https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1329830923899187202
It's actually very simple: You pay people to stay home because otherwise they have to work. If the work, they go to where they virus is spreading, then bring it home to their loved ones, or the friends they gather with. 2/x https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1329814466112970754?s=20
With coronaviruses such as this one, it mostly spreads by super-spreading events. One person in a public place isn't that likely to transmit it to another person, but the virus thrives when they get home and spend hours with loved ones, unmasked. 3/x https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1329849270745395205?s=20
Coronaviruses thrive on superspreading events. So if you are in enclosed spaces, or outdoors tightly packed, unmasked, one person can spread the virus to dozens of people, who then take that virus home and spread it even further. 4/x https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-superspreading-events-drive-most-covid-19-spread1/
MERS does not transmit well person-to-person, with the exception of household family members. But during a MERS outbreak in South Korea, one man spread the virus to 186 other people. SARS-COV-2 works in the same way. 5/x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504499/
So looping back around, it may annoy you, but paying workers to stay home and paying small businesses to close will stop the virus spreading in the community. The virus doesn't just magically appear inside your house, you bring it in. 6/x https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1329814466112970754?s=20
When you stop the virus spreading in the community, you stop people from bringing the virus into their homes where things like this happen. The end. 7/7 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/nyregion/coronavirus-fusco-family-nj.html
