Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by eveningcoffee on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:06PM (#22428453)

And what use is of mask with a valve for a sick person? They are already sick and valve will let contaminated air straight out? Can healthy people at least buy these?

I think that not recommending masks for everyone is very myopic considering that the virus tends to spread asymptotically.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by pmoriarty on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:14PM (#22428992)

Even if asymptomatic people transmit the virus "asymptomatic transmission likely plays a minor role in the epidemic overall, WHO says. People who cough or sneeze are more likely to spread the virus, the agency wrote"[1]

[1] - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/paper-non-symptomati...

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by eveningcoffee on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:45PM (#22429207)

WHO can say what they want but considering how the virus popped up in Italy tells a different story. Something has been overlooked.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by mercer on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:32AM (#22434718)

I agree. It's probably aliens. Or reptilians.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by eveningcoffee on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:42PM (#22436322)

Naturally argumentum ad hominem is always the best strategy.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions? by mercer on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:51AM (#22440810)

I think that's a fallacy fallacy right there, but I also think fallacies can be fun responses to stupidity. Fallacy is a strange word. Fallacy.

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