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BREAKING NEWS: Social gatherings and public assembly limited to 12 Persons

World Health Organization and ReDS Relief issue an urgent joint recommendation
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News release – October 14, 2019 - GENEVA

World Health Organization and ReDS Relief issue an urgent joint recommendation In ReDS zones, all social gatherings and public assembly should be limited to group sizes of 12 or less

Relevant venues include all workplaces, churches, restaurants, movie theaters, sporting venues

 

Spokesperson says: “Casual social contact in the time of ReDS is no different than causal sex last century during the initial outbreaks of AIDS”

 

VOLUNTARY LIMITS

Citing the needs to reduce vectors for ReDS contagion, WHO and ReDS Relief are strongly recommending voluntary limits on public assembly.

 

All community leaders, office managers, and owners of public venues are urged to establish new guidelines for everyday meeting and congregating. Sites affected by this recommendation include all workplaces, churches, restaurants, stores, playgrounds, movie theaters, sporting venues, and private social gatherings.

 

Possible solutions for on-site limits include new consider spatial partitioning, attendance lotteries, and hour-by-hour rotating site access based on birth month.

 

Virtual experiences and tele-social platforms may also be used effectively to offset limitations on face-to-face gatherings.

 

POSSIBLE ENFORCEMENT

While the current recommendation is for voluntary limits, WHO officials acknowledge that local authorities and governments may choose to enforce this limit during severe outbreaks.

 

WHY TWELVE?

According to a ReDS Relief spokesperson, the number twelve as an upper limit to safe social gathering is supported by three different branches of social research and simulation.

 

Simulations of contagion vectors and new applications of social network probability theory show that 12 live bodies represent a relatively safe limit for public assembly.

 

The recommended number also draws on social network research that has long identified the number 12 as the ideal size for face-to-face social interaction. (See Harvard University researcher Robin Dunbar’s seminal early 21st century work on social network theory.)

 

STORIES AND SOLUTIONS REQUESTED

If you have implemented a voluntary limit successfully, please report your success on Superstruct and tag it assembly12.

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  • avantgame
    Oct 14
    Join the superstructure for promoting and pioneering Safer Social! http://superstructgame.net/SuperstructView/321
  • csven
    Oct 14
    "Virtual experiences and tele-social platforms may also be used effectively to offset limitations on face-to-face gatherings." - Something we're trying to facilitate over on The Screaming 3D Bootstrappers superstruct: an effort to utilize open source 3D interface application solutions in an effort to connect people and spread information, similar to how propriety 3D solutions were developed for corporate Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems back in the late 2000's. This is something I've followed for years. For background, I've an old blog series called "Next Generation Product Development Tools" which might help explain things. It starts here: http://blog.rebang.com/?p=1421 (hopefully most of the videos - a lot of videos - are still available for viewing).
  • copystar
    Oct 16
    "In the fall of 1918, doctors tried to get newspapers to warn people in Philadelphia against attending a parade. The newspapers refused. In the week after the parade, almost 5,000 Philadelphians died of the flu." - http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2007/03/11
  • EddieC
    Oct 18
    The point of AIDS being brought up in which how we must deal with ReDS now, the best form of fighting the disease is through spreading knowledge of it. How it works, how it spreads, how it affects, prevention, and coping or living with it. The thought of limiting sizes up to 12 people in groups is only spreading more fear and paranoia into what seems to be a disease that even the governments themselves do not fully understand, if they seem this idea to be a viable. I would feel that this could develop into segregating more people because of a condition, which as the past shows us humanity unfortunately has no problem with hate and violence against those who seem different. To only have people socialize or interact in such small numbers will bring humanity back into solving its need to work together with people of all kinds of backgrounds, races, culture, and now health status.
  • JJason
    Oct 21
    How close do you have to be to each other to count as assembling? Can I have two groups of 12 in my house as long as more than 12 people are never in one room? Is having more than 12 people in a gynasium sized room safe?
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