The news you can home in on Covid cases by analyzing sewer outflow is something we will quickly pick up on and use in our steady step-by-step path to reopening, guided by science, here in California. More data leads to fewer restrictions when duty has a bigger role in the mind of leadership than the paralyzing fear of failure we see from so many republicans starting with the least and lowest of all, psycho trump.
Smart leaders are going to put energy into understanding the information available through any lens or channel and using it help to coordinate resources in response.
As for the jeans/farts vs. masks/disease question, if you weren’t being totally sarcastic, the trick to a cloth mask is that the fabric be a little loose and capable of billowing out while remaining in good contact along the outer edges. This negates a lot the energy generated by a sneeze allowing less material to get through and reducing the distance travelled by the remainder. Elastic waisted loose cut jeans would be better at containing farts than non-ridiculous jeans that people wear. Double or triple layering the material makes the mask more effective but hotter and heavier to wear.
A cloth mask lets some expectorant through. That’s why good recommendations don’t end with masks. They include social distancing and when possible isolated sheltering and so so so much more testing than we’re capable of with trump or nearly any republican in charge (Mitt, Kasich, and Jeb would have done good jobs with this. Hogan is, manly by being many many orders of magnitude smarter than the trump weasel or DeSantis or Kemp). Medical grade PPE masks would be better than cloth ones, but (or so) trump is fucking that up bigly too.
No wonder this administration and its ignominious leader have dropped bellow 38% approval in the latest poll of polls.
You can blame some of this on Obama. His eight years set a standard of executive excellence so far beyond trump’s scope that he knows he will never escape the last real President’s shadow. The thought sends trump scurrying to his tanning bed each afternoon whether or not he delivers one of his interminable and useless propaganda strip tease shows. It’s ruining his executive time.
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5 (45.5%)