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Originally Posted by NotMe
Holy Crap. 1.64 > 1.0 for sure ....
That HAS to involve some tendency for folks in the Nevada sample to congregate somehow at a more frequent or longer lasting timeframe than folks in other States. ............. hmmm,
Don't think I'll be playing much live poker,for the foreseeable future, casino or home game, with or without plexiglass.
Wonder what the incidence is among front line casino workers.
I am beginning to think that playing live poker or hitting table games or visiting in a casino, mask or no mask, might be highly -EV vis a vis CoVid 19.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...id-19-spread1/
Too bad, but it really looks that way.
Casinos are crowded, social distancing is not observred on the casino floor and people move around a lot.
" ...as a group’s size increases, so does the risk of transmitting the virus to a wider cluster. A large group size also increases the chance that someone present will be infectious."
"Time matters too. The longer a group stays in contact, the greater the likelihood that the virus will spread among them. Exactly how much time someone needs to pick it up remains an unanswered question, says Syra Madad, a special pathogens expert at NYC Health + Hospitals. She adds that the benchmark used for risk assessment in her contact-tracing work is 10 minutes of contact with an infectious person, though the CDC uses 15 minutes as a guideline. "