I'm going to say something controversial: the "research" is not very useful. What we should do, IMO, is to say: F*ck science, we want to live, and *insist* on our individual rights. There are two important arguments on that:

1. Insisting on individual rights is solidarity, because everyone can find himself in the minority opinion.

2. It is wrong to put everything under the dictate of rationality, because rationality is inherently soulless. Rationally, athletes' foot is most efficiently combated by amputation.