The media continue to pump bad news, even if the news is actually kind of good.

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida finally goes ape on reporters, and the Michael Flynn case

gets more and more curious.

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You have a right to privacy protected at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. So we actually have a lot of good news. The last couple weeks have been a time of good news. Now, listen, there's never unqualifiedly good news in the middle of a pandemic. There are always going to be more deaths. There is always going to be more suffering. That is just the reality of life. But if you had told people several weeks ago that the curve would be flattened, that states would be reopened, and you wouldn't see these massive spikes as those states reopen, that in fact, many of the states reopening are seeing lower rates of infection and death than they were even when they were closed, you would think that was kind of a bit of good news, would you not? What if he found out that the virus is not as easily transmissible as it was once thought to be, meaning that if it's going to be transmitted, it is mainly done through face-to-face contact? As I mentioned yesterday, the CDC downgraded its risk assessment level from getting this thing on surfaces. They basically said that's pretty unlikely you're going to get this from surfaces. now at CNN, there's a piece suggesting that staying safe isn't just about staying six feet away

from others and washing your hands with soap.

It's about staying away from people in closed areas for significant amounts of time.

Aaron Bromage, a comparative immunologist and professor of biology at University of Massachusetts

Dartmouth, summed it up with a short and sweet equation, successful infection equals exposure to virus times time, meaning that you actually have to be exposed to the virus for a long period of time, which is why you're seeing a lot of medical workers who are getting this, because they are in contact with people who have this for long periods of time, a lot of nursing homeworkers have gotten this. But if you just walk through a room where somebody sneezed five minutes beforehand, the chances that you're going to get this are actually pretty low. Ramaj's simplified formula was part of a recent blog post explaining ways to lower your risk of catching COVID-19. The main idea is people get infected when they are exposed to a certain amount of viral particles. That viral threshold can be reached by an infected person sneeze or cough,

which releases a large number of viral particles into the air, but an infected person talking

or even just breathing releases some virus into the air over a long period of time and in a closed

space, that means that the viral load in the area obviously increases. So this is why you've seen,

for example, widespread infections during choir practices. People are singing and they are projecting

and they're in very close contact with one another. But if you have, if you have restaurants where people are seated fairly far apart or outside, then you don't see a lot of people who aren't infecting other people. And this also means that there may be some good ways to alleviate this sort of stuff, namely make sure that the air conditioning ventilation at particular restaurants is better. Make sure that you're sitting a little bit further apart. Make sure that you don't spend an hour at the restaurant, spend 10 minutes at the restaurant, you know, sitting down outside for coffee or something. The bottom line is that that is good news. It means that you are probably not going to get this just from walking around. And this is what you would suspect anyway, because we've had tons of people going to grocery

stores, and virtually nobody is getting it at the grocery store. A few of the grocery clerks have been getting it because, again, they are experiencing lots of people directly across from them. And that is why they put up the spit guards, which is a good thing. But we've had grocery stores that are basically chock full of people. you haven't seen viral outbreaks at Walmart, for example.

Why? Because you're just not in constant contact to people for very long.

You're brushing past them and you're moving on. You are singing at churches. Why? Because you're sitting on a pew next to somebody else for like an hour. You saw it at Mignon in the Jewish community, spreading very widely. Because again, you are sitting in a room that is closed for two hours at a time. And so that is while singing.

So that is likely to lead to wider viral spread.

All of this is good news.

And yet the media seem just desperate, desperate to continue portraying all the news in the worst possible light.

I'll show you a couple examples of this in just a moment.

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