Posted on 08/19/2021 5:50:40 PM PDT by ransomnote
[H/T CheshireTheCat ]
The plastic barriers that shot up at sales counters and order windows across America during the COVID-19 pandemic may actually be facilitating the spread of the virus, not protecting people from it.
“If you have a forest of barriers in a classroom, it’s going to interfere with proper ventilation of that room,” Linsey Marr, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, told the NYT. “Everybody’s aerosols are going to be trapped and stuck there and building up, and they will end up spreading beyond your own desk.”
A June study led by researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that plastic screens around desks in classrooms were correlated with increased transmission of COVID-19. Another study of a Massachusetts school district found that the barriers impeded air flow. Scientists say that under normal ventilation circumstances, exhaled virus particles are dispersed and replaced by fresh air every 15 to 30 minutes. With barriers in place that change air flow, dead zones can be created where the fresh air doesn’t travel and the virus particles concentrate.
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“Follow the science” has morphed into “Obey your masters”.
Total joke.
Otherwise known as stay home until you accept communism.
I avoid those plastic enclosure like the plague.
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
Interesting. I wondered about that after all these plexiglass booths sprang up. I figured the ventilation flow was going to be turned higher to make up for these pockets of soiled air due to the plexi-walls. Of course, that’s not something a cashier would be expected to know.
There’s one millennial at my office that demanded to have one of these barriers installed across part of her cubicle entrance. She’s the only one in the office with one, and it kind of makes her look like a lunatic. I mean, the barrier doesn’t go all the way across, and there’s about 8 feet of open space above her cubicle still where all the air from the rest of the office is circulating, but I guess it makes her feel better?
The people on the other side of them especially would be in an enclosed smaller area...anything in there or that gets in there would linger due to lack of air movement.
Bounce Back Boogie....of the China Flu ping.
Send her this article :-)
You mean to tell me that a plexiglass barrier doesn’t offer protection from a virus?? Geez the next crazy thing you’ll tell me is that a paper mask doesn’t work either. 🤷🏻♂️
If someone sneezes she should quit!
next on the liberal agenda....aside from providing your own shopping bags.....next *BYOP*...Bring Your Own Plexiglas.
Everything they have done has done nothing but make it worse.
The plexiglsss companies made out like bandits. Useless.
The mask manufacturers made out like bandits. Useless
The vaccine companies have made out like bandits. Useless.
The online retailers made out like bandits. The lockdowns were useless.
A cashier at Hobby Lobby told me about the time some lady sneezed and she had to watch the big gob of snot slide down the plastic barrier.
:D
Or tailormade Hazmat Suits for Men or Women.
Made to accomodate a business suit or a pair of high heels.
Leslie Nessman.
I couldn’t help but think of Les Nessman of WKRP.
Ha ha. But she’s too cute to be a Nessman. Forget the hot-crazy matrix, this girl is registering on the cute-dumb matrix.
Don’t forget the plywood manufacturers when all the businesses had to board their windows up for the summer.
But at least they did serve a useful purpose.
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