You can tell your covid requirements are pseudoscience tickybox woo when they emphasise “hand gel”, which is completely fucking useless against covid, over “face masks”, which are not.
And also when your activity is outdoors in the countryside.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •There's an interesting article about it here:
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Seems there's a reasonable consensus that contact transmission is a pretty small risk, and certainly a *much* lower risk than airborne transmission, but divided opinions on whether it's completely negligible or merely small
Is Hand-Washing Still Important in the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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in reply to Adam • •@Adam With the caveat that a lot of the orthodoxy around those viruses also originates from the same utterly wrong assumptions that made the WHO state that covid couldn’t possibly be airborne until they evidence that it was became overwhelming.
I’m not saying personal hygiene with regard to hand cleanliness isn’t important: it is. It’s much more an issue for gastrointestinal stuff though, and is unhelpful to focus on with diseases (including the ones you mention), that the vast majority of people catch through inhalation.
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