Links: About those holiday gatherings

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In case anyone needs arguments to convince recalcitrant friends or relatives.

After Big Thanksgiving Dinners, Plan Small Christmas Funerals, Health Experts Warn by Ashton Pittman, Mississippi Free Press, Nov 16, 2020 via rydra_wong.

Thanksgiving Dinner during COVID: Overview of Aerosol Transmission Risk Modeling by J. Alex Huffman, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Denver, Nov 17, 2020. Colorful graphs backed by solid data and analysis to estimate risks of COVID-19 transmission in different sized rooms with different numbers of people. Outdoor and masked gatherings also evaluated.

Thanksgiving and other holiday meal gatherings will be tremendously dangerous for the community.
• COVID rates are skyrocketing, breaking records
• Indoor meal gatherings imply no masks while eating/drinking
• Gatherings often large numbers of people of mixed households/pods
The purpose of this document is to provide rough estimate of HOW risky a gathering could be to help aid decisions and encourage civic responsibility.

And, Scientific Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2, updated Nov 10, 2020. Short article that concludes, "Experimental and epidemiological data support community masking to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2."