With new evidence of airborne transmission, it's essential to be cautious.
new evidence of airborne spread
implicates schools, nursing homes, residences, and restaurants which may need to minimize recirculating air and add powerful new filters or ultraviolet lights to kill viral particles floating in tiny droplets indoors. At the very least, masks may be needed indoors, even in socially distant settings. Given this new scientific evidence, the dangers of indoor dining are clearly more heightened than was previously understood, explains James Giordano, Ph.D.
“Although the restaurants would be able to implement precautions that I think would be adequate to protect the public, we have seen by example that the public is not ready to be fully responsibly and obligatorily compliant,” he said, in reference to the widespread refusal of many individuals to wear masks and of some political leaders’s refusal to enforce public health and safety measures.
Dr. Giordano says the disconnect between political will and scientific reality is reason to stay away from indoor dining. “There is an overwhelming amount of misinformation from the federal government, including the implicit message in the recent invocation that the World Health Organization is not to be trusted,” he said.
Because public safety protocols and the wearing of masks have become such a political issue, Giordano says dining indoors is not yet safe for the public. “The problem is an irresponsible segment of the population that is not acting in accordance with appropriate policies,” he says. “You have people who will wear a mask and be responsible but what do you do when there is not uniform acceptance? You see fights breaking out all the time.
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