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There’s specific wave solder glue for smd components. Most likely all components were glued down. You can still see the off-white glue on the ICs in between the leads.
The parts that should not be soldered are usually masked off. Either with a mold or kapton tape/flexmask. Never Painters/scotch tape, since it will melt and/or burn.
9/11 was a one time thing. COVID is an ever evolving disease that was pretty lethal for certain groups of people, and bad shit for the rest. But a disease cannot keep living if it kills the host. Quarantines start, and the disease dies out. So naturally the less lethal evolution survives, because if it doesn’t kill the host, quarantines are less necessary.
COVID is not over. It changed. As did we, by developing vaccines. But the urgency of quarantine because of over full hospitals are gone.
You can be cautious. And if you’re in the risk groups you should. But societal necessity is over. Live your life, and stay at home when you have symptoms.
It looks like a board where they indeed probably put the components on by machine, however without solder paste, since it was going through the wave solder anyway. But you would need to glue the components down then.
That’s why there is so much excessive solder. If it was printed with solder paste, it wouldn’t have this much solder.