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Re:Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes by gerbal on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:11AM (#23898019)
> There's no measure that will be realistically implemented in the next month that would cut R in half

Universal masking can cut R substantially, but it requires high levels of compliance [1]

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2020.037...

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Re:Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes by cameldrv on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:25AM (#23898722)
That’s why I say realistically. You could do a $50 billion blitz campaign to promote/provide masks, and you could increase usage, but the holdouts now are the ones that are difficult to convince.

Schools are a particular problem. Getting kids to consistently and correctly wear masks is hard. Getting kids to follow social distancing rules is hard too.

Bringing a bunch of poorly compliant people together to sit in the same room with 25 other people is gonna be a big challenge.

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