2020 US election - It Came from Washington DC

[robkelk]

Sensible of her.

not really, even the NY Times is saying that it is useless

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...d=msedgntp

they are however 12 feet apart

Quoting from the very first line in that article:

The plexiglass barriers installed for the vice-presidential debate are useful only for protecting against droplets: “Those are really just splatter shields.”

Which means they aren't useless. Splatter shields are a good adjunct to other measures to control the spread of airborne droplets.


EDIT:

Another solution, experts said, is simply to move the debate online. “I don’t understand the resistance to a virtual format,” said Natalie Dean, an epidemiologist at the University of Florida.

Which is exactly what Canada did last week during the Green Party leadership debate, so it's been proven to work in a political setting.