I understand virus are readily transmitted in droplets produced byFar from being impossible, "virus floating in the air" is the - primary - means by which the virus is spread, e.g. by people coughing, sneezing, talking, breathing it into the air, not by people touching themselves & each other with their hands.
The authorities are not much concerned about COVID-19 viruses that are in the air for hours or in feces. Their primary focus has been on the spread of the virus by touching the face & especially the heavier stuff (droplets) through the mouth (coughing, talking, etc) of the infected. Hence the 6 feet "social distancing" rule, though i'm quite sure a sneeze could send the virus further than that.I understand virus are readily transmitted in droplets produced by
sneezing and coughing. I had in mind virus drifting in open space.
That could be an unknown number of virus produced in a sneeze
by someone in a street spread around in my neighbourhood. I don't
want to come into close contact with someone sneezing. But I won't
worry about catching a 'naked' virus (one without the shelter of a
droplet) floating in a quiet area.
Yup, that's only a concern for a very small number of people who engage in brown showers.The authorities are not much concerned about COVID-19 viruses that are in the air for hours or in feces.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/cdc-masks-coronavirus.html"A federal official said Tuesday that the C.D.C.’s review of mask wearing for the public stemmed from a request by the White House coronavirus task force, which is leaning toward recommending it.
...Dr. Fauci said: “The idea of getting a much more broad communitywide use of masks outside of the health care setting is under very active discussion at the task force. The C.D.C. group is looking at that very carefully.”
...If everyone wears a mask, individuals protect one another, reducing overall community transmission. And places like Hong Kong and Taiwan that jumped to action early with social distancing and universal mask wearing have gotten their cases under much greater control.
There have been troubling reports that indicate the coronavirus may be able to travel farther in the air and stay in the environment longer than is possible by respiratory droplets, which have so far been assumed to be the primary mode of transmission of the virus.
One study in Singapore found traces of the virus in air vents in patient isolation rooms. In another study, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center detected extensive contamination in patient rooms as well as in air samples collected from the hallways outside rooms.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said in an interview on Sunday that the C.D.C. should put out designs for cloth masks for the public. “The value of the mask isn’t necessarily to protect you from getting sick, although it may offer some protection,” he told CBS News. “It’s to protect you from other people. So when someone who’s infected is wearing a mask, they’re much less likely to transmit infection.”
He said studies involving the flu suggested that you could reduce your ability to spread the flu by about 50 percent if you wore a mask.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/cdc-masks-coronavirus.html
I am wearing a mask.You want to wear a mask? Knock yourself out.
I am wearing a mask.
I hope you are not asymptotic spreading everywhere when you do errands like groceries shopping or getting gas or getting medicines for yourself or your farm animals. If your responsible staying isolated in your 200 acres not meeting people then that not a issue for me. The issue is your family doctors that giving all his patients not the best advice.
Your family doctor had taken a Hippocratics.
The Hippocratic Oath is a sworn agreement made by physicians when they become doctors. It includes a promise to share knowledge, to help the ill and not cause harm, and to never give a deadly drug or help another to use one.
Set an example do wear a mask a do for others and do for your neighbors, do for your country. The faster everyone wear a mask and help stop the pandemic , save the economy before we all go into a recession or God forbid a depression. Remember USA going into depression and Federal or State government going broke they will cut your government pension ( old age security) if they have no money. They will have to get from somewhere that been from people who have money. They will find an excuse to tax you more.
Fine ! Hope you" do not" kill someone and don't destroy the economy " depression" !Repeat: I will be taking medical advice ONLY from “ qualified medical experts” NOT total strangers on a forum.
What part of that is so difficult to understand?
Fine ! Hope you do kill someone and destroy the economy " depression" !
Three Reasons Everyone wears a Masks:
1. Stops infected people from expelling infectious particles.
2.Help you remind you not to touch your face.
3. If you infected anyway, much better chance of " starting small" low inoculum level= a much better disease outcome .
WIthout a mask you will get a large inoculum level ( someone cough at you) billions of viral goes into your face goes into your nose, mouth and eyes. You get sick faster and lessen the chance for your body to mount a properly defence ( Hours vs Days). Too large inoculum level in your body it overwhelms your body defence.
Why should everyone wear a mask? Go to 14:45 of the video.
So, you’re saying I should take medical advice from someone that HOPES I KILL SOMEONE???Fine ! Hope you do kill someone
I’ll make the font bigger and put in red so you can see it better.
Repeat: I will be taking medical advice ONLY from “ qualified medical experts” NOT total strangers on a forum.
Typo error typing a a small mini iPad " Meant I hope you don't kill someone " Thanks for catching it.PS You probably very isolated in your 203 acres of land. Probably don't need to wear a mask since your isolated!
It’s actually 208 acres. I also have enough food, essentials and fuel to last more than six months and the gate at the end of my laneway has been locked for weeks.
Please get professional help! You posted on a public forum you hope I kill someone!
That’s certainly not normal behaviour ( maybe also illegal). I can recommend a good doctor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/cdc-masks-coronavirus.html?auth=login-email&login=emailC.D.C. Weighs Advising Everyone to Wear a Mask
...Guidance on mask wearing is “being critically re-reviewed,” said Robert Redfield, director of the C.D.C.
...Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., confirmed in an interview with WABE in Atlanta, a National Public Radio member station, on Monday that the agency was reviewing its guidelines on who should wear masks. Citing new data that shows high rates of transmission from people who are infected but show no symptoms, he said the guidance on mask wearing was “being critically re-reviewed, to see if there’s potential additional value for individuals that are infected or individuals that may be asymptomatically infected.”
The coronavirus is probably three times as infectious as the flu, Dr. Redfield said. Some people are infected and transmitting the virus probably as long as two days before showing any symptoms, he said. “This helps explain how rapidly this virus continues to spread across the country, because we have asymptomatic transmitters and we have individuals who are transmitting 48 hours before they become symptomatic,” Dr. Redfield said in the interview.
“That’s important, because now you have individuals that may not have any symptoms that can contribute to transmission, and we have learned that in fact they do contribute to transmission,” Dr. Redfield said.
...He said studies involving the flu suggested that you could reduce your ability to spread the flu by about 50 percent if you wore a mask.
This are the same medical experts told everyone not to worry in February it " only the Flu" , now they shut down the whole country.
Repeat: I will be taking medical advice ONLY from “ qualified medical experts” NOT total strangers on a forum.
Does the N95 itself even give 100% protection from COVID-19 to the mouth & nose areas?The aerosol Corvid-19 can enter the eyes as well, many people do not wear eye protection so N95 (fit tested) alone is probably not enough.
