Tue Aug 24, 2021 – 4:42 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Eighteen months after the beginning of “15 days to slow the spread,” the New York Times has questioned the benefit of putting up plastic barriers at stores, schools, and businesses.
“Intuition tells us a plastic shield would be protective against germs,” the Times said August 19. “But scientists who study aerosols, air flow and ventilation say that much of the time, the barriers don’t help and probably give people a false sense of security. And sometimes the barriers can make things worse.”
The Grey Lady cited several studies from this summer that questioned the benefits of the plastic barriers.
Desk barriers in a Georgia school, for example, did not substantially slow down the spread of COVID.
Johns Hopkins-affiliated researchers, meanwhile, concluded that “closing cafeterias and playgrounds and the use of desk shields are associated with lower risk reductions (or even risk increases).”
Pre-COVID research, apparently ignored by public health officials, had studied air flow and virus transmission in office settings or medical facilities, and frequently said barriers were not effective.
Researchers looked at a hospital ward and found “physical partitions between beds” theoretically could help, but
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