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To: dadfly

“referring to the risk of infection. you want to make that smaller.”

Then you would keep every non-essential person in quarantine and every essential person. in full PPE! Duh ...


58 posted on 04/08/2020 4:27:20 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

no. you decrease the probability of infection probablility by probability. i guess i’m not being clear. sorry.

say, three individual measures: mask, gloves, sanitizer gives you a 1/2 chance of infection. then using all three gives you. that’s what i mean, anyway.

1/2*1/2*1/2 = 1/8 = .125 = 12.5% probability of individual infection, instead of a 50% chance of infection.

the probability of non-infection 1-.125 increases to .875 or 87.5%. ok enough said.


59 posted on 04/08/2020 4:37:46 PM PDT by dadfly
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