No, no, no. Tin-foil hats are too thin. You need one of those aluminum calendars used for draining water while cooking. Those are perfect for protecting you from aliens.
How is this a question? It's how traffic works, the cars in front move forward, and the cars behind it, move forward 1.5x slower, then it goes like that exponentially, and before you know it...10 days later...it's cleared up as fast as it began. The 101/405 bottleneck in L.A. is a perfect scale model