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I agree 100%.

I saw a video a while back concerning some research being done about the spread of aerial particles and “microdroplets”.

They put 10 people in a room the size of a typical school classroom, and had one of them cough. Using alternate light sources and high speed video, they followed the cloud of microdrops produced when the person coughed. It showed up red. It started as a few smallish clouds around that person, and in 10 minutes migrated all around until it completely covered the whole room from about waist level to a foot over everyone’s heads.

Then they opened a window. The whole thing whooshed out the window, it looked like something in a Roadrunner cartoon. About 3 seconds and it was completely gone.

This implies that in any commercial building like Lowe’s or wally world, with 20 to 30 foot ceilings and the AC unit it takes to handle that volume of air, even if someone infected does cough, it is likely to be sucked up and transported out of the building very quickly, it won’t have time to float around and permeate the building.

Many places are also using ultraviolet units to kill viruses as well. All air that goes through the AC unit is passed throough the ultrviolet unit, any pathogens cannot survive it.

I’d like to see what happens to the smoke if you lit a cigarette in one of those places. Given the AC unit is pretty much always circulating, my guess is it would not stick around long, same as anything lighter than air floating around from a cough.

From what I’ve read, the chances you will become infected by COVID just by passing someone in the aisle at the grocery store are pretty slim. Generally you have to remain in a confined space with inadequate ventilation for several minutes, some say as long as 10 minutes.

As you said a mask won’t stop a virus, that’s why the doctors dealing with Ebola patients wear a hazmat suit with a helmet and a cannister type filter on each side. And sometimes they still end up getting it. If a person wearing an ill fitting mask just blows it out the sides, others around that person are still at risk, the microdroplets still float around all over hell and a half acre. Never mind the fact that the virus itself is much smaller than the pores in the mask to begin with...

Sure the mask may absorb those...what happens when you constantly adjust the thing, take it off and use it again in the next store a half hour later, don’t wash your hands all day...then in some cases use it again the next day...

Why don’t I see hazardous waste disposal containers in every store I go to for the masks everyone takes off? Why dont I see Fauci and others constantly warning people do not play with your mask. Take it off with latex gloves and put it in the disposal receptacle...oh yeah there’s not one...

There is another agenda here...

This had nothing to do with a mask, just the spread of the moisture produced by one cough, mostly in microscopic droplets, which condensed into smallish clouds then floated around the room, partialy dissipating until it was one big thin cloud.. covering the whole room. Then they opened a window. The whole thing whooshed out the window, it looked like something in a Roadrunner cartoon. About 3 seconds and it was completely gone.

And when did you ever hear frequent ventilation of rooms advocated?

Meanwhile, one thing (42% obese) America needs to do is try to be in far better shape, not overweight, and with a lot of exercise, some good food (and at least a Vitamin D supplement here) and regular good sleep - and pray. Thus even if you get sick from a contagious disease (80 percent of which are transferred by touch [1]) you most most likely will recover and with lasting resistance against reinfection[2]. Immune cells for common cold ( hundreds of strains exist) may even recognize SARS-CoV-2.[3] It is even held that in general, a child exposed to colds and viruses earlier in life will develop a stronger immune system and is less likely to become sick in his or her later years. [4]

And in sharp contrast to what we see for other respiratory viruses, like influenza, a new study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle says "the novel coronavirus is most likely transferred through “super-spreader” events, and that 80% of those who test positive for the virus never infect anyone else." "The study shows most people who have COVID-19 are highly contagious for one to two days, and it is usually before they are showing symptoms or know they are infected with the virus." [5]

[1] https://www.trinityhealth.org/the-keys-to-fighting-covid-19

[2][https://maxliving.com/healthy-articles/cold-and-flu-symptoms-are-good-for-you/]

[3]https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/immune-cells-common-cold-may-recognize-sars-cov-2]

[4] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48489391/ns/health-childrens_health/t/ask-dr-ty-will-early-exposure-colds-boost-immunity/

[5] https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fred-hutchinson-cancer-research-center-study-80-percent-coronavirus-superspreader/281-eb53a16a-632d-4d16-ae31-8cfdce84e570