"Experts are also credited with creating an easy-to-understand message of avoiding what are called the “Three C’s” -- closed spaces, crowded spaces and close-contact settings"
This makes sense. In the US and other countries, people have become obsessed with things like runners not wearing masks or people gathering at beaches or washing their groceries, but all of those things are extremely low risk. Evidence keeps piling up that outdoor transmission is very difficult and surface transmission is remarkably unlikely. The primary way to spread a virus via droplet transmissions is to spend a sustained amount of time around lots of other people in an indoor space. That accounts for virtually all of the super-spreader events and avoiding these activities is likely responsible for the vast majority of the reduction in the transmission rate during these lockdowns.
I think we're gradually moving towards a system of restrictions based on universal mask wearing when indoors and avoiding crowded indoor spaces altogether. Most other restrictions are likely not necessary to keep the transmission rate low enough to avert catastrophe.
This makes sense. In the US and other countries, people have become obsessed with things like runners not wearing masks or people gathering at beaches or washing their groceries, but all of those things are extremely low risk. Evidence keeps piling up that outdoor transmission is very difficult and surface transmission is remarkably unlikely. The primary way to spread a virus via droplet transmissions is to spend a sustained amount of time around lots of other people in an indoor space. That accounts for virtually all of the super-spreader events and avoiding these activities is likely responsible for the vast majority of the reduction in the transmission rate during these lockdowns.
I think we're gradually moving towards a system of restrictions based on universal mask wearing when indoors and avoiding crowded indoor spaces altogether. Most other restrictions are likely not necessary to keep the transmission rate low enough to avert catastrophe.