Posted on 12/10/2020 7:19:37 AM PST by Pontiac
“In this outbreak, the distances between infector and infected persons were … farther than the generally accepted 2 meter 1/8 6.6 foot] droplet transmission range,” the study’s authors wrote. “The guidelines on quarantine and epidemiological investigation must be updated to reflect these factors for control and prevention of COVID-19.”
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“There’s a real misconception about this in the public.” said Seung, who was not involved in the South Korea study. “They’re thinking, if I’m not a close contact, I will magically be protected.”
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Linsey Marr, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Virginia Tech who studies the transmission of viruses in the air, said the five-minute window in which the student, identified in the study as “A,” was infected was notable because the droplet was large enough to carry a viral load, but small enough to travel 20 feet through the air.
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I had a close call last night. Just made it home at 9:59pm! It was vey scary!
Needs repeating. I have expressed the same thought many times here.
I don't know if thousands and thousands count as "hardly any".
Just tie a hankie across your face. Because “masks work”, all the Smart People say so because science.
Don’t try to distract people with fancy words like viral load, just wear the damn mask! Else we’re telling!
I am 73 and have asthma. The CDC guidelines include a recommendation that people with respiratory issues should NOT wear a mask. Yet everywhere I go, including doctors offices will not honor this exemption. My own asthma doc refuses to write a letter for me confirming I have asthma and should not wear a mask. So, I have to delay knee surgeries and other procedures until this is over.
Looking back I am almost certain now I was infected with covid-19 on the jam packed Carnival Ecstacy cruise ending on Feb 29th. After disembarking I had a strange dry cough for 10-12 days, then went away with just normal procedures of gargling with salt water.
No wonder I have no more covid-19 symptoms in spite of resuming all normal activities. Yes, everything is wide open in Florida including all my favorite seafood restaurants on beach highway A1A. And 50 visits to Walmart & Aldi, 25 visits to Lowe’s and Home Depot, and escorting wife to cancer hospital every 3 weeks for chemo.
I must have acquired immunity from the cruise exposure.
If so, it slipped past me.
I enjoy armchair expertise that is completely inaccurate such as this
Civilians ran out of PPE. Hospitals did not. While there was a shortage, they just washed and reused, which nurses whined endlessly about. Even when supply caught up for medical staff and disposable came to mean disposable rather than washable, some still got infected. A week ago, the 51-year-old head of a Houston ICU died of the virus after having been ill for a month. The deceased in his work clothes:
Not contagious ones. Infectious yes, contagious no.
Where’s you’re sense of danger? I know some bars that stay open until 11:01. What’s life without some risk?
Medical prison; for those who don’t trust YHVH (God).
Digital prison for all of humanity.
US/CCP government prison for USA.
Exactly. People don’t understand that there is no such thing as “having Covid” It is like being fat or having MRSA. It is not binary.
We ALL have fat on our bodies. We ALL have MRSA on our bodies.
Does “being fat” mean you have detectable fat on your body? Does it mean a BMI of 20, 30, 40????
Does “having MRSA” mean that you have a detectable amount on your skin? Having an itchy spot? Having a pencil sized abrasion? Losing an arm?
The same thing goes with COVID. Just because you have snippets of DNA in your nose that are detectable after 45 cycles of amplification, doesn’t necessarily mean you “have COVID”.
What if you got a bit of the virus in your body, it multiplied to double the amount and your immune system killed them all before you had a symptom? Did you “have COVID”?
What if the same scenario happened but while your immune system was killing it, for 2 hours your temperature raised by 1 degree, your breathing rate increased and your heart rate increased by 5 beats per minute? Did you “have COVID”?
What if the same scenario happened but you had mild cold symptoms before your immune system killed it? Did you “have COVID”?
If you are in a building with central air conditioning and heating, it doesn’t matter how far away you are, it is in that system and spreading all across the building.
Why haven’t all the news readers dropped dead then if this was a real pandemic? They sit near each other with air circulating.
Well Gee, I wonder where the public got that misconception? Could it be that the Government and the Media demanding masks & distancing as the only way to "stop the spread" for the last 10 months just might play a small role?
I know three couples where one spouse caught the virus and the other did not, even while living as man & wife with the infected spouse during their quarantine.
That suggests to me that catching the virus isn’t as easy as many say it is.
The nurses I know are NOT dressing up like that while working with COVID patients. They will for more dangerous viruses. One caught COVID and was simply told to stay home for 10 days. She is now back to work.
I must have acquired immunity from the cruise exposure.
= = =
Will the immunity require a second cruise if it wears off like the vaccine?
Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?
There still seems to be a lot of unknown variables like long term effects and the virulence of reinfection.
One of my close friends has it right now. She is on day three. So far, she says it just seems like a bad head cold. Ofcourse, we all know it is too early to say. My co-worker said her neighbor has it and has been in the ICU. 58 years old and no other health issues.He thought he had a sinus infection for a few days.
She went to a small birthday gathering at someone's home on Saturday, got sick on Monday. There have been two outbreaks at her workplace they she has not succumbed to-both were people she was close to at the time they got sick.
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