[EarlyBird]

Nope - it was DEFINITELY in those systems, but it wasn’t replicating in those systems - it cannot. Instead you had sick people on the boat dumping virons into the constantly re-circulating air, by the ‘boatload’, building up the concentration of the virons higher and higher over the days. As the concentration of virons went higher and higher, more and more people couldn’t fight it off, and got infected.

Ok, Bob. How does that differ from everything I’ve be saying tonight?

I think you and I are in complete agreement.

[mrsmith]

“had sick people on the boat dumping virons into the constantly re-circulating air”
True.

[BobL]

“I think you and I are in complete agreement.”

I think we are really close! There were ‘aerosol deniers’ on on these threads in the past, but they’ve pretty much been silenced by the facts. They thought a bit of bleach and Purrell would keep them safe - sorry, not happening, not that easy, not even close.

Anyway, I think the only difference is that I’m implying from what you’re saying (maybe incorrectly) is that viruses actually ‘live’ in ventilation systems and reproduce there, as in Legionnaire’s Disease, whereas I’m saying that while closed ventilation systems circulate viruses, they can’t actually increase the number of virons or the concentration of them...those systems let them build up, but to increase the total number, you need infected people, dumping more virons into the closed environment - and they have to be dumping more faster than the virons are dying off.