Hey Palo Pete, what do you think a germ is?
It’s PALEO...not PALO...if you want to try and make me look stupid, try to at least get my handle right...
Do YOU know what a germ is? Judging by that picture, nope...
OK wise guy...I should have used the word bacteria. Germ is a catch-all term used to refer to viruses, bacteria or any other micro-organism, and usually intended to imply a pathogen. Not to be confused with wheat germ, which is basically the embryo of the wheat plant, and a totally different concept. And I think you know damn well I was not confusing wheat germ with coronavirus...if you’re trying to be obstinate and irritating, you’re doing a good job of it.
Many bacteria are large enough to be seen with an optical microscope, while viruses are much smaller and can only be seen with the use of an electron microscope.
The largest specimen of coronavirus measured was about .14 micron, while the pores in an N95 mask are .3 micron, more than twice as big. (coronavirus ranges .05 to .14 micron in size) To put that in perspective, how much trouble would you have walking through a 10 foot diameter pipe? That’s how much trouble a single coronavirus organism would have going through the standard mask sold at wally world, which is not as efficient as an N95...
Yes I know what a germ is...I should have said bacteria...or bacterium. The general idea is still the same. Bacterium (the proper plural) are much larger.
And by the way wheat germ is a very small section of the smaller kernel or wheatberry actually shown in your picture.
https://thirtyaweek.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/wheat_diagram_big.jpg
hope that works...
Yeah, but you said, “Germs are much larger than viruses or bacteria”. If germs are viruses and bacteria, they are not larger than viruses bacteria. So if masks work for germs, they work for bacteria and viruses.
