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Comment by zamfi

> The claims about shopping are...unsupported and go contrary to an enormous volume of evidence (namely the high R0).

Honestly? An R0 of 2-3 is frankly not that high.

If grocery shopping were a huge risk, and people spread the disease before being symptomatic, you’d expect a single sick individual to infect way more than just 2-3 people on average.

Compare with measles’ 12-18 R0. That’s high.

parent zamfi 6 years ago

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