Slouching Towards Oblivion

Friday, May 22, 2020

COVID-19 Update

More good news: CDC is telling us now that COVID-19 doesn't persist on surfaces as once believed.

WaPo:

The coronavirus primarily spreads from person to person and not easily from a contaminated surface. That is the takeaway from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which this month updated its “How COVID-19 Spreads” website.

The revised guidance now states, in headline-size type, “The virus spreads easily between people.” It also notes that the coronavirus, which causes the disease covid-19, “is spreading very easily and sustainably between people.”

The CDC made another key change to its website, clarifying what sources are not major risks. Under the new heading “The virus does not spread easily in other ways,” the agency explains that touching contaminated objects or surfaces does not appear to be a significant mode of transmission. The same is true for exposure to infected animals.

The bad news is that the warning in that 2nd paragraph will be discounted, which means a shitload of Americans will blow off more of the precautions, which means we're prob'ly already setting ourselves up for another wave even before the first one has ebbed.

The intertoobz are filled with Keiths and Karens who think da gubmint is trampling on their god-given right to shop at CostCo naked.


Fake lord have mercy.




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