[Slyfox]

Monkeys tend to throw things, like feces, at each other. They also spit at each other. Technically, a virus that is transmitted by projectile spit or thrown feces is not “aerosol.”

Maybe so, but we don't need to act as if it might not be airborne. The experts who study this stuff do not take the chance.

[Morpheus2009]

Their level of caution is admirable. I wish the level of caution was not lost down the line, however.

[exDemMom]

I know exactly what the experts who study viruses like Ebola do.

I really do not understand the fixation with airborne, and why it won’t go away despite every expert in the world saying it isn’t airborne.

Most airborne viruses are not very pathogenic and have low death rates. They cause more deaths overall because they infect so many people, but the chance that a specific person will die is pretty low.

To put that into context, the CDC estimates that 5-20% of the US population gets influenza every year. Between 3000 and 49,000 die from it, with the average about 16,000. That’s less than a 0.33% fatality rate, calculated using the numbers that give the highest possible CFR.