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I think an apt comparison to at-home tests is opening indoor restaurants and then telling people they have to wear masks.

We know how this is supposed to work in an ideal world. Wager people spend what, 45 minutes in a restaurant on average. 15 minutes they sit down and order, 15 minutes to eat, 15 minutes just conversing after the meal. How it supposed to go, you walk in, masked, you sit, stay masked. Want to drink, slip mask down, drink, slip mask back up. Food is there, mask off and eat. Done eating, mask back on. You figure you get 15-20 minutes of everyone mask off. Risk is there, but low.

Reality of people going into a restaurant with masks required. They walk in masks on, sit down, immediately the whole table takes their mask off. Servers would be the ones if anyone asked to enforce/educate this, but they rely on tips to live, they sure as fuck aren't saying shit. So masks are down the whole 45 minutes. Basically triple the exposure time anyone would plan around when idealizing those guidelines.

There is maybe 3% of the restaurant going population that doesn't do this. Works well in practice, in reality it is pointless and the people that are going to follow the guidelines to what you want probably would do that without guidelines anyway.

The whole pandemic here just comes down to people being too fucking stupid for their own good. Things that end up sounding good in practice just fall apart when you have to rely on real people.