Common sense 101. It’s what I do during any cold or flu season. Heck, pretty much year round.
Anyone: how true is it that COVID-19 is NOT airborne?
I thought it WAS airborne, and that was part of why it has such a high R0 rate of contagion.
As Bogie said in Casablanca, I must have been misinformed.
Whoa..washing hands? What kind of voodoo is this?
Isn’t the consensus that it remains up to 3 hours in the air?
I think that this article is too cavalier
Read this from the South China Morning Post
Proximity to infected persons and airborne exposure ARE a risk. Apparently the virus can be airborne from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Eg an empty elevator can actually carry in the air the droplets left behind by someone who recently exited the elevator.
I wash well when I come in.
I don’t go anywhere were there are large crowds.
I disinfect the shopping cart before I use it and my car when I get home.
I take a supply of nitrile or vinyl gloves with me and use them too, as an extra layer of protection. When I’m done with them, I peel them off so they are inside out and toss them on the car floor to clean up later.
When I get home, I sanitize the doorknobs and anything else I’ve touched when coming in.
I’m not sure it has been determined that the virus is not ‘airborne’, especially once it is aerosolized. It certainly is ‘airborne’ in the most basic mechanical sense, i.e. somebody sneezing or coughing very near you:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmission.html
The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.
These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.
IMO.. They are underplaying the risks.
No need to f*** around with some repackaged, clickbait. Just go to the Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/symptoms-causes/syc-20479963
Or the CDC
Believe I’m going to stay in until this blows over.
They “postponed” the concert I was planning to see in Las Vegas, so no point in rubbing shoulders.
And to prove it, they touched all the microphones and reporters.
I think that one of best defenses to not getting this virus is to not read this article. The Virus is airborne. It can also be caught from surfaces.
According to current stats, about 4% will die
Been doing that for years.
But a lot of people are unconscious and not reachable. A few of them and those they infect will become unconscious permanently.
And telling people is pretty fruitless. Everyone knows. The people not doing it know they should and won’t.
This is pretty good. Most of us will get a light case if at all. And the precautions that we all know will really go far to preventing infection.
Actually, hard to believe, but it stresses not touching your face which is harmless, versus touching your eyes, nostrils, or mouth/lips.
In addition, it fails to mention the important advice of making sure your hands are clean before touching food from with them, and making sure dishware and all such are washed well.
Furthermore, They Say Coronavirus Isn't Airborne—but It's Definitely Borne By Air. The word “airborne” means different things to different scientists, and that confusion needs to be addressed. other sources say it is AIRBORNE
according [to] Lydia Bourouiba, whose lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..When you breathe out or cough, you release bits of watery mucus from inside your body in a wide array of sizes, ranging from bigger, wetter ones to finer ones. All of these are droplets. The smallest droplets are commonly described as aerosols. Whatever you call them, though, any of these bits of mucus may be laced with viral pathogens. To make matters more complicated, when the water component of droplets dries up in the air, the remaining bits of floating virus are called “droplet nuclei,” which are even lighter and more apt to travel long distances. Aside from size, other factors, such as local humidity and any drafts of air, will also affect how far a droplet flies. - https://www.wired.com/story/they-say-coronavirus-isnt-airborne-but-its-definitely-borne-by-air/
Been saying it since day one of this ridiculous panic.
Wash your hands and keep your snot locker clean.
You’ll be fine.
The author is a skilled computer programmer, but not someone with expertise in the medical area.