>>11853930>Who decides who's essential?What does that have to do with religion?
>That's why places that have strong immigration/customs laws such as Japan has low cases/deaths despite no mask law being in place.They're wearing masks, they do so even when they're not asked to. That's common in many Asian countries, it's considered a courtesy.
>*Up to 120 nm in diameter.No, that's the average, it doesn't get much smaller. SARS-CoV-2 is not a small virus particle.
>And yes a certain percentage will be filtered, just as a screen door will hold back a certain percentage of water on a submarine.So you consider 95% filtration of particles over 10x the size of the virus to be equivalent to a screen door filtering less than 1% of water? That's a terrible comparison. There's a minimal infectious dose for all viruses, 100% filtration isn't necessarily needed. But we don't need to assume here, in real world settings, N-95 masks reduce respiratory infections to a very high degree even with direct exposure, and that includes influenza, rhinoviruses, and coronaviruses. The immune system is quite capable of dealing with a few viral particles that sneak through, preventing an infection from taking hold. It's large exposures or many exposures over time that lead to infection.
>"No"Yes. That's how it works. Assuming testing rates remain the same, a falling positive rate implies slowed transmission, and a rising positive rate implies an increased rate of transmission. When you have increased testing and an increased positive rate, you're looking at a substantial rise in spread.
>>11853933https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-statesYou can filter down to the state level. It's obvious that the spread is exploding in certain states, Florida in particular. The originally hardest hit states, New York and New Jersey, have shown no rise in positive test rate.
