Imagine 9 passengers sitting like this:

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Now lets remove 4 of them:

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I would say every one has at least a 50% reduction in the number of people close to them. On top of that, minimum distance and average distance both went up. I wouldn't be surprised if the infection rate in the second example is only 10% of the first.

Pair that with everyone wearing a mask. I have read that the infection rate goes down by 95% between two people wearing a mask in comparison to two peole wearing no mask.

Pair that with a 10-minute test [1] which everyone has to take at the airport and let only negatively tested passangers on board.

I think instead of trying to wait it out and print money, we should start to engineer ourselfes out of this crisis.

[1] https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-third-solution.h...