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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“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.”
At least the cashier didn’t have it land on her face!
I’m pretty sure we knew this over a year ago
“ CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.”
Bears repeating. Dittos
Ping
Maybe I’ll print it out and leave it on her desk, I don’t want to get anything traced back to me, I may be on thin ice anyway as the unvaccinated guy who laughs at all the fear propaganda and calls the masks “security blankets”.
The spike protein is negatively charged.
Honestly, ppl don’t know how to stifle a freaking sneeze in public??!!? It’s not that hard. Just put your index finger horizontally between your upper lip and your nose and press slightly. It blocks the nerve impulse to sneeze. I hate sneezing in public and have used this technique since I was a kid. Problem solved!
Makes it impossible to talk so you have to lean left or right or down ,LOL
Otherwise, if barriers are helping to spread virus on customer side of barrier, wouldn't barriers be helping to promote healty natural herd immunity, especially if you're taking vitamin D3 dietary supplement in my non-medical opinion?
Our greatest weapon against the coronavirus is Vitamin D: Board-certified pathologist (3.29.21, probably no lucrative government contracts to be made from making vitamin D3 imo.)
Daily COVID Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns (7.22.21)
That being said, soiled masks are arguably helping to promote natural herd immunity for the people who wear them. So wear them for the two weeks and then don't worry about it?
Unanswered questions possibly a consequence of desperate, allegedly election-stealing, pirate Democrats arguably weaponizing pandemic for political gain imo.
Insights welcome.
For later.
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Not if it has a UV light exposure.
Bingo.
Yep! They’ll keep going back to the well...my only question is what will they name the 27th “variant”. Only 26 letters in the alphaebt!
greek alphabet only has 24 letters...
Thanks for the laugh. Politically correct science would be a total joke if it wasn’t so deadly.
It has always been that many of these barriers, one-way isles in other similar measures we saw with the result not of science, as we now see, but trying to pllacate the terrified Karen’s online.
For example I remember during April 2020 before many of these things were put in the Facebook page of a regional grocery chain was filled with 50 something-year-old woman terrified of Covid and coming up with “ideas“ they thought would help. Among those with a one-way isles, plexiglass shields, etc. This particular chain after a week or so Of this going on announced they were installing the plexiglass barriers and some other measures. Of course, that made other places follow suit, no why do people think they want you to die.
All of these things made them feel better about going out and shopping but really made no difference. Common sense would say if you exhale Covid, it will be airborne and will easily move around the plexiglass shield based on the buildings airflow, etc. Just like the one-way isles. If the person in front of you has Covid and you are behind them, you’re still going to breathing but the exhaled just the same as if you walk the other way.
The lunacy of plastic barriers and masks. The moronic “scientists” and “doctors” who recommended these useless items should be vilified. The harm they have done to society is immeasurable.
Plexiglass shields and masks: virtual signaling run amok.
“some lady sneezed and she had to watch the big gob of snot slide down the plastic barrier.“
Well that’s kind of a testimony that they work!
It will be interesting to see if Dr. Zelenko’s as well as many other experts in the field of virology predictions will materialize and what the reaction will be?
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