In an interview with The Atlantic, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said humans would be safer from COVID-19 if we stopped speaking.
“The truth is that if everybody stopped talking for a month or two, the pandemic would probably die off,” Dr. Jose L. Jimenez, who teaches chemistry and biology and researches aerosols at CU, told The Atlantic.
Ian Miller pointed out how the idea of not speaking is bizarre and jokingly challenged his followers to make good on Jimenez’s proposal.
Dr. Jose L. Jimenez
“(I)t contains one sentence that encapsulates the incompetence of "public health”. Masks didn't work, so now we need to just...stop talking.” Miller tweeted. “That's right everyone. No more talking. Just for a month or two!”
In the article, Jimenez said the practice is “not controversial.”
“Every route of viral transmission would go down if we talked less, or talked less loudly, in public spaces,” Jimenez said.
Emma Woodhouse took to Twitter to question Jimenez’s thinking.
“Oh my word. How did we get to this point? Psychologists, what are the signs of a mass delusion event? Can we safely say we are in the midst of one?” Woodhouse tweeted.
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