>>12092195If you plot out human contact in space AND time you get nodes. These nodes form when every person repeatedly goes to a finite number of spatial-temporal locations.
Infection doesn't spread by contact alone: it spreads by the time and intensity of contact. Therefore, spread of infection follows nodal connection, not individual connection.
So random connections can contact or interconnect more separate nodes and nodal pathways, but infection requires time and repetition, So it is the nodes and their common pathways that spread infection and therefore the nodes that must be interrupted.
That means restricting access to what you do REGULARY stops epidemics faster than restricting random incursions.
The argument as to whether we should allow the few connections created by random parties or protests with a contact population total of few million is largely moot since we won't restrict the nodes of work or routine gatherings whose contact populations are in the hundreds of millions and multiplied into the billions by the repeated and intense contact of routine.
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