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To: Kid Shelleen
* Wash hands frequently, stop touching face, keep 1-2 meters from anyone sick. * * The author claims the disease is "hard to get" since it is NOT AIRBORNE. * 99.8% of people who get it will recover.

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/

56 posted on 03/14/2020 3:25:05 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Very informative. Some scientists have a very specific definition of airborne that the coronavirus does not meet but the coronavirus can travel in air so it does exist somewhere on the “spectrum of airborne-ness” which is important to be aware of.


62 posted on 03/14/2020 4:14:21 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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