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mindstalkNew exercise on my talk today: ignore people outside, and try to count mask rates visible within shops and offices. Or by people just leaving or entering.
Simple results: 12 out of 106 people total (this is 12 out of, not the X to Y of my PAX counts.)
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mindstalkI'm back into Airbnb life, and just moved to Philly Chinatown. A modest number of surgical masks in older Chinese people at the grocery stores, plus one young woman in a K-mask I saw around. A couple old white people, homeless or semi-so, in surgicals. Very little masking in Trader Joe's, mostly one cashier, despite TJ having the highest CO2 levels I've seen in a grocery store -- 1300 when I checked. TJ packs in customers and does not have great ventilation.
It also turns out that Pax Unplugged, a large table/board game convention, was happening this weekend, two blocks away. Perhaps this explains why getting an Airbnb was annoying and expensive, compared to what I saw in DC. A friend of mine was flying out Sunday morning, so swapped me his 3-day pass so I could check it out. Free in money and almost free in time, why not?
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mindstalkThis paper came out Nov 10th. Pretty simple: they compared HCW (health care worker) blood samples between April 2020 and April 2021, and of 181 people working with covid (or suspected-covid) patients, only one showed signs of SARS infection, and he had plausible exposure outside the workplace. Hopeful message: PPE works, very well!
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tl;dr: ditch your surgicals (if any), wear respirators.