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		brianwawok on March 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? Washing and touching is what people can do without shooting each other over masks. I am sure it helps like 10%. Doubt it will have a massive impact either way. I’d like to think most people wash their hands reasonable often.

robocat on March 22, 2020 [–]

Yep.

What weirds me that it seems likely a bandana over the mouth could change R0 from 2.2 to 2.0, yet we talk about washing hands.

A 10% reduction of transmission is super good when you are dealing with exponential growth.

We need both together, yet we are focusing on only one.

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