>> >>Pretty low risk outside from what I've read.
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>> Reports that the immense crowds on Bournemouth beach in the summer (2020) had no effect
>> whatsoever on the rate of the virus.
How can anyone possibly know that?
A possible explanation is obvious. Most of them weren't from Bournemouth. In any case people on beaches don't all rub up against each other, quite the opposite. The etiquette of beaches is not to plonk one's towel down right next to a stranger, but to do it (say) a couple of yards away - coincidentally trying very hard to remain socially distant.
It's possible of course that it would have made made little difference whether the above speculations are true or not. With hindsight it seems clear that seasonality makes a big difference to the spread. I think we'll see the same this summer if it arrives, and the vaccine will probably get the credit but in this respect it seems similar to 'flu, which affects hundreds of thousands every winter and largely disappears in summer.
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