Posted on 04/24/2021 5:52:34 AM PDT by foreverfree
The risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet — even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world.
MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and John W.M. Bush, who teaches applied mathematics, developed a method of calculating exposure risk to Covid-19 in an indoor setting that factors in a variety of issues that could affect transmission, including the amount of time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, immunization, variant strains, mask use, and even respiratory activity such as breathing, eating, speaking or singing.
Nice. Today’s first installment of “Who the F*** knows anything about this damned ‘deadly virus’ and how it’s transmitted?”
So sick of the every-changing stories...
>>“We need scientific information conveyed to the public in a way that is not just fear mongering but is actually based in analysis,” the author of the study said.
That train left the station a long time ago with Fauci.
But, but, just wear the damn mask! Science denier!
We’re all going to get infected sooner or later. Those of us who were infected, barely sick, and recovered are immune for a minimum of eight months.
My family and I go about our daily business in a pre-pandemic fashion. We are courteous to others and maintain our distance, but I’d do that even if there was no pandemic.
In other news, researchers conclude that laboratory mice cause cancer and herd immunity will be achieved after everyone gets a virus.
The Fake News will never allow this to stand! Time for some lives to be destroyed!
Meanwhile here, all the social distancing balderdash is gone. People wear masks in token recognition but many do not cver their noses. Restaurants are operating at 75% capacity but no on capacity police actually check. Schools are in session
It’s pretty much normal
If you live in a blue area, move to have life restored
The six foot rule was a concetion of a 19th century German who thought that distance would prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Sorry but if you watch the videos of a sneeze, it is readily apparent that the matter spreads over an huge distance. Consider the dilemma of the careful shopper. The shopper wants to buy peanut butter and looks down the isle in the supermarket. releived to see the isle empty, she goes do the peanut butter display and pauses for about 45 seconds making her selections. What she does not know is that just before she looked down that isle, another shopper sneezed and then quickly turned the corner before she saw him. Standing where he sneezed, mask or no mask, she is inhaling whatever particulate matter was in the respiratory tract of the unseen shopper. Hopefully both were vaccinated. Being outdoors is the best strategy to avoid COVID exposure.
They can shove their “studies” up their collective arses.
We knew this since the cruise ship incident in Korea, this occurred only 1 month into the beginning of the mass paranoia
“Hopefully both were vaccinated...” because if not they only have a 99.8% chance of survival.
Shudder.
Now, for those who are immunocompromised or otherwise in an at-risk population, this info is helpful and hopefully they are vaccinated of they choose to be.
MIT will probably be forced to stop teaching advanced mathematics
If you get COVID-19, it is no walk in the park. Agree that government mandated lockdowns did far more harm than good. An educated ,rational individual is a far better custodian of his or her health than the government mandating behavior.
I’m perfectly suited for avoiding the virus.
Who would have known that being an anti-social a**hole would come in handy one day?
I had covid 19, as did my wife and children. It was a walk in the park for us. In fact, my wife was asymptomatic. My children had a stuffy nose for about a day. I had what I thought were seasonal allergies until my test came back positive.
Now, I know not everyone has the immune system my family has. Probably has to do with growing up poor in public schools in Arkansas.
That being said, I don’t give anyone grief for doing what they believe is necessary during this pandemic. I remain courteous to others by keeping distance. I don’t make fun of them for wearing masks even though we don’t. I teach my kids to respect the choices of others.
We aren’t getting the vaccine as we already have natural immunity. I’ll look into it again next year if this is still a thing. Viruses don’t disappear, so I expect it to be here forever.
My wife told me at the beginning of this that I was probably living the right way being antisocial, lol!
I sneezed over and over again outside yesterday on a playground. Ahchoo. It’s ok though. Someone said, “Bless you!”
Well, it is just based on modeling - but the basis for the “six foot rule” is what started as a wrong assumption (droplet spread) and then was enshrined as an anti-panic measure (never say “airborne”).
All in all, a nice piece of work.
Oh, and let me point out that most anti-mask positions are based on other false assumptions, which are that one particle is infectious and the conditions under a mask are MORE favorable to infection rather than less so.
The empirical evidence for prolonged indoor exposure to actually infected persons strongly favors masks, whatever the particle science says.
Outdoor masks under most conditions make no sense - unless you are in Wuhan in January 2020, Bergamo in February 2020, Manhattan in March 2020, and so on. Under certain conditions of population density AND infection rate, outdoor aerosols can accelerate case rates. I suspect we are seeing this now in urban India and saw it recently in Manaus.
You only have a 99.9% survival rate so stay safe.
That's why there were never any reports about COVID among the homeless!
The obvious solution is to burn down every building and make people live and work outside!
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