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Everything seems to be going pretty fine with this going out in public gig EXCEPT the indoor dining.
If you just thought that you need to be about a meter away from other people to be safe as long as they're not yelling or coughing, you'd think it was fine, and if you thought that air circulation was also required you'd PROBABLY think it was fine; but, following Zeynep Tufecki's work, I know data suggests indoor dining - even with personal space bubbles, even with air circulation if it's not adequately ventilated - is not enough to protect people from unmasked superspreaders if they're in the path of the airflow. But based on how I see people acting, I think what's going on is not that everybody's an asshole or an anti, but rather that almost everybody thinks one of the above two incorrect things: poor public health messaging. I mean, there hasn't been an outbreak there yet, but I think we've been lucky and it's also pretty close to the beginning of an acceleration phase, but the time to stop indoor dining is not AFTER an outbreak at your lunchroom.
Anyway, apart from that anxiety, the course is going very well, but I'm very glad tomorrow's the last day, because being On around other people for 7 hours 6 of the past 8 days has emotionally exhausted me and then moved on to drain my brain power and also my physical prowess. I'm looking forward to sleeping about an extra week's worth over the next few days after tomorrow, getting up just to supervise the preparation of a carrot cake for my birthday on Wednesday and light the Hanukka candles starting Thursday.
If you just thought that you need to be about a meter away from other people to be safe as long as they're not yelling or coughing, you'd think it was fine, and if you thought that air circulation was also required you'd PROBABLY think it was fine; but, following Zeynep Tufecki's work, I know data suggests indoor dining - even with personal space bubbles, even with air circulation if it's not adequately ventilated - is not enough to protect people from unmasked superspreaders if they're in the path of the airflow. But based on how I see people acting, I think what's going on is not that everybody's an asshole or an anti, but rather that almost everybody thinks one of the above two incorrect things: poor public health messaging. I mean, there hasn't been an outbreak there yet, but I think we've been lucky and it's also pretty close to the beginning of an acceleration phase, but the time to stop indoor dining is not AFTER an outbreak at your lunchroom.
Anyway, apart from that anxiety, the course is going very well, but I'm very glad tomorrow's the last day, because being On around other people for 7 hours 6 of the past 8 days has emotionally exhausted me and then moved on to drain my brain power and also my physical prowess. I'm looking forward to sleeping about an extra week's worth over the next few days after tomorrow, getting up just to supervise the preparation of a carrot cake for my birthday on Wednesday and light the Hanukka candles starting Thursday.
