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Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by hanoz on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:38AM (#22897817)
Maybe it's being upvoted because it rings true to a lot of people, and raises a prospect not being talked about much elsewhere. Personally I think it glosses over potentially the worst of what's to come: next winter.

I don't take much solace in a surveillance state being a way out of this either, besides, what use is contact tracing for those commuting on crowded underground trains every day?

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Re:“It'll all be over by Christmas” (No it won't) by maxerickson on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:56AM (#22897913)
It's likely that cloth masks reduce transmission in situations like trains (by stopping infectious people from blowing droplets everywhere).

Contact tracing works by pulling sick people out of circulation. So when you stop a sick person from getting on the train, you eliminate the potential infections that would have come with their journey.

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