Posted on 07/08/2020 6:53:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you're working in an office or eating in a restaurant and someone 30 feet away exhales tiny particles of coronavirus, those particles can drift across the room and infect you. Picture cigarette smoke wafting across a room. Same thing. The precautions agencies like the World Health Organization and the federal CDC are telling you to take against this virus aren't good enough. Social distancing -- placing desks and restaurant tables six feet apart -- and washing your hands won't protect you from this airborne virus.
That's not fear-mongering. It's science. New research from the National Academy of Sciences contends that airborne transmission of the virus is "highly virulent" and the "dominant" way it spreads.
On Monday, 239 scientists jointly announced research showing "beyond any reasonable doubt" that "viruses are released during exhalation, talking and coughing in microdroplets small enough to remain aloft in the air," and can spread across a room.
The scientists urged countries opening up after lockdowns to make buildings healthier by improving ventilation and installing air-cleaning technologies. We all need to become indoor environmentalists, focused on the air we breathe.
The scientists cited research showing how three families at three different tables in an air-conditioned restaurant in China all became infected with the virus. One person at table A came in with it, and when he talked he emitted viral droplets that were carried across the room in a stream of air-conditioned air, infecting diners at two other tables.
When you're in a restaurant, you're not wearing a mask, making you more vulnerable. The mounting evidence on airborne transmission underscores the importance of wearing not only masks, but also goggles, eyeglasses or shields. Microparticles of the virus suspended in the air can invade eye membranes. A new report in the journal Lancet found that "eye protection is typically underconsidered."
As for improving indoor safety, kudos to Governor Andrew Cuomo for becoming an indoor environmentalist. At his June 29 briefing, he said he was concerned about the airborne virus particles circulating in malls. Unfortunately, he went too far, mandating that they install specific equipment -- HEPA filters -- in their air conditioning before they're allowed to reopen.
That's not necessarily the best technology to protect mall shoppers. Newer technologies can deactivate the virus soon after someone emits it, long before it reaches an air conditioning filter. That means protecting people who are there at the same time as the infected shopper, not just later arrivals.
Mall owners pushed back against Cuomo's mandate, explaining their systems can't handle those filters.
Cuomo's well-intentioned edict shows the problem with government mandates. They're often behind the science and shift the cost onto somebody else.
HEPA filters are used by airlines. Most planes recycle about 30 percent of cabin air through HEPA filters and exhaust the other 70 percent out of the plane. The cabin air is replaced about every three minutes. A plane is an unlikely place to become infected by airborne COVID-19. The risks on a plane are from people seated so close to you that larger viral droplets from their mouth or nose land on your face, or from you picking up traces of the virus from contaminated surfaces and touching your own face.
Few indoor spaces can be fitted like airplanes. But there are technologies to improve indoor air quality. "Healthy buildings should be the first line of defense" against the coronavirus, says Joseph Gardner Allen from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. None of the opening plans proposed by the states or the federal CDC propose using technology to improve indoor air quality in workplaces, schools or other buildings. Yet, it's the single most important kind of infrastructure spending the U.S. could make -- a bargain compared with prolonged unemployment benefits. Call it a "Green Indoor Deal."
You may be wondering why you haven't heard this information from the WHO or the CDC. As usual, they're behind on the science. To bring people back into offices, schools, restaurants and stores, we need to face the fact that the coronavirus can spread from one side of a large room to the other, infecting people along the way. It's airborne.
So, now one wears a mask, the airborne virus attaches to the mask, one takes the mask home, and infects everyone in the house!
#Plandemic
Visit Airborne before it visits you.
Death from above!
“...kudos to Governor Andrew Cuomo for becoming an indoor environmentalist...Unfortunately, he went too far, mandating that they install specific equipment...
WINNER !
Stay outside as much as you can. Temps here in Kaintuck have been in the 90s for weeks. The Rona can’t survive these temperatures and sunlight. I’m not sure I can either.
“Six feet was known to be somewhat but not totally effective. The same can be said of masks.”
That’s just dumb.
so two Little People. Six feet apart. From their mouths? Their feet? What if they are laying down?
Now use 7 ft basketball players. One laying down and one standing would be 6 ft apart at the mouth . . .
Blue paper masks don’t block anything. “But what about droplets?” If someone sneezes in your face, the problem isn’t droplets it’s the aerosol wave. That goes through and around the ill-fitting blue paper masks.
Virus is gonna do what viruses do. Those who are gonna get it are gonna get it. 90% will get the Panda Sniffles.
Group Mortality for otherwise healthy folks under 50 is near zero.
Older folks, compromised immune systems, co-morbidities etc . . . need to take care.
We had “3 days of Peace & Music” during the 68-69 Hong Kong Fu that killed a pile of people.
Yep. the “Woodstcok” festival. No lockdowns there.
everyone else.
LIVE YOUR LIFE!
We were at a medical appointment a few weeks back, and the person we saw told us that they wait 46 minutes after a patient leaves each little exam room, then sanitize it. They felt 46 minutes was the time needed for anything to “settle”. I expect this is somehow also related to the ventilation for the rooms?
Then a lifeguard at a pool here tested positive for Covid-19, and they were advising that “anyone who had spent 6 or more minutes in close proximity” to that person should be tested, or at the least, on alert to watch themselves for symptoms, take temperature, etc.
Where did the 46 minutes for it to settle and 6 minutes to be “exposed” come from? Are they also “science”? Or just someone’s best guesses?
Bump
It may be a possible way it spreads, but multiple studies have shown that it is not the common method of spread.
So they are just now reporting that airconditioners can move this virus around...
We already know that the masks available to the general public cannot effectively filter out the virus.
We understand that sunlight ( a UV component of it) kills it in approximately 30 minutes. What about a purpose built UV lamp?
Doesn’t wearing a mask actually increase the viral load of the individual wearing it?? Seems the individual with his face covered is going to re-breathe any virus caught in the snot that was actually filtered out of his sneeze or even just his breath. (Might this cause a liability problem for the governors and mayors mandating their wear?)
” The scientists cited research showing how three families at three different tables in an air-conditioned restaurant in China all became infected with the virus. One person at table A came in with it, and when he talked he emitted viral droplets that were carried across the room in a stream of air-conditioned air, infecting diners at two other tables.”
This is the classic “correlation is not necessarily causation” error. . . It is impossible for this research to prove that the two diners at the restaurant were infected because of the coincident dining of an infected person across the room. The idea that the diner at “Table A” somehow “came in with it,” another unprovable assertion that the Table A diner was shedding viruses sufficient to infect anyone. No one in that restaurant was tested in situ, and all of this is therefore surmise.
Bkmrk...my wife will like these guys!
Yes let’s start reenergizing our own historical cancel culture which happens every time there’s an election.
Get rid of the demoncrat shills. Glad u brought it up.
Uh, duuuuuh!
Bkmrk...my wife will like these guys!
Why do I get the feeling that nobody knows nothing about this virus as everyone is emphatically prescribing unarguable solutions.
#2. You always feel when you have a Sneeze coming on.
The trick to avoid it, is take your Index finger and rub it your nose bridge. The urge to sneeze immediately disappears
I learned that as a 13 year old from a Teacher Nun. I'll be 19 in less than a month.
Try it.
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