narses wrote:
“Hot humid weather tends to kill these pandemics because water droplets carrying the virus when people sneeze or cough is trapped in the air’s moisture and falls harmlessly to the ground.
A sneeze of cough in cold dry air can travel a shocking distance.”
Very interesting!
So it’s not the heat that kills the virus, but the humidity that traps it and shortens the range.
(The precautions about handwashing etc are still apply)
What method of transmission happens with an asymptomatic person; how does he or she spread it if not coughing or sneezing?
My wife and I are taking an ice bucket of champagne into the shower tonight and live a little.
My wife and I are taking an ice bucket of champagne into the shower tonight and live a little.
“What method of transmission happens with an asymptomatic person; how does he or she spread it if not coughing or sneezing?”
shaking hands can do it ... also the virus lives on surfaces for a while, maybe a few hours depending upon conditions ... so someone coughing or sneezing on a surface that’s then touched by someone pretty quickly thereafter, like say in an airplane, can spread it that way ... not clear how efficient the virus spreads itself that way though compared to airborne droplets ...
Dry air makes your mucus membranes much more virus hospitable.
35 years ago an allergist told me that and said to run a steam vaporizer ANY time the heat was running. We followed that advice and our winter colds decreased by at least 50%.
I have one running right now. I am experiencing my first winter cold this season.
“What method of transmission happens with an asymptomatic person; how does he or she spread it if not coughing or sneezing?”
Smooching? There should be a ban on hanky panky.
Is the virus still worse for old coots like me?