The Science behind the Coronavirus Spread-by-Talking Problem:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38808-z
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Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness
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https://www.jwatch.org/na51083/2020/03/13/covid-19-incubation-period-update
CDC 1. Airborne Contaminant Removal
Table B.1. Air changes/hour (ACH) and time required for airborne-contaminant removal by efficiency *
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/environmental/appendix/air.html#tableb1
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“Among patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, viral loads in the upper respiratory tract are high; as a consequence, respiratory secretion in the form of aerosols (<5 μm) or droplets (>5 μm) is likely, the authors note. ”
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That means the real risks are now know to be from infected asymptomatic TALKERS … infected talkers with COVID-19 symptoms …. sneezers & coughers with fevers.
https://www.jwatch.org/na51083/2020/03/13/covid-19-incubation-period-update?fbclid=IwAR1N_zoCeP9mmJLnlYAmuckaiDPWEh9cDdzpawKNkKTm9v7z5BYv1f9qWuE
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It also means that sick people (with or without symptoms … infected people talking …. sneezing & coughing can very-effectively KEEP THE REST OF US much safer, by them wearing a cheap surgical mask that are superb at catching their sneezes & coughs.
Their sneezes may produce as many as 40 000 droplets between 0.5–12 μm in diameter (Cole & Cook, 1998; Tang et al., 2006) that may be expelled at speeds up to 223 mph… (100 m/s )… which is what drives the sneezed droplets into masks …
Then notice.. ” coughing may produce up to 3000 droplet nuclei, about the same number as talking for five minutes.”
Cole & Cook, 1998; Fitzgerald & Haas, 2005; Tang et al., 2006 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143281/
… Dispose of the cheap contaminated (sneezed-into) surgical masks every hour or 2, depending on when they get wet. Handle them like toxic waste, and dispose of in a non-leaky plastic bag… (We don’t want our beloved basureros & the people who pick through the trash, getting sick !! )
~ Stay well, stay informed, stay safe. ~
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” The scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detectable in (airborne aerosols from talking) for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. The results provide key information about the stability of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease, and suggests that people may acquire the virus through the air and after touching contaminated objects.”
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces
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Corona virus selectively attacks the cells that line our throat, nose & lung tissues
is also why we have seen ZERO Coronavirus transmissions by food contamination NOR by food packaging contamination … because YOU ARE SAFE, unless you touch slimy sneezed snot droplets … and then touch your own eyes, nose, or throat, with their slimy snot …
” Many studies have shown that people expel aerosol particles containing potentially infectious microorganisms during coughing, speaking, or breathing
Fabian et al. 2008;
Morawska et al. 2009;
Stelzer-Braid et al. 2009;
Lindsley et al. 2010;
Fennelly et al. 2012
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” … Current infection control guidelines distinguish between “droplet precautions,” which are needed for diseases thought to spread primarily by larger spray droplets, and “airborne precautions,” needed for diseases that spread via small aerosols (Siegel et al. 2007). Large droplets (greater than ~50 µm) are primarily affected by gravity; they follow a ballistic trajectory and impact on surfaces or fall onto surfaces within a meter of the source. Intermediate-sized droplets (~10–50 µm) can deposit by impaction but can also be carried further from the source by the cough air flow and can travel 2 m or more before settling.
Small droplets (less than ~10 µm) are much less prone to impaction or settling; they can remain airborne for an extended time and be spread throughout a room by air currents, especially after drying (CDC 2006).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4615563/
“The geometric mean of the (sneezed) droplet size of all the subjects is 360.1 µm for unimodal distribution and 74.4 µm for bimodal distribution with geometric standard deviations of 1.5 and 1.7, respectively. “
These sneezed (possibly SARS-CoV contaminated) droplets are HUGE and launched at upwards of 220 mph – so they are blasted into even the simplest paper or cloth mask …
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2013.0560
Meanwhile, a coughed aerosol “has a size range of 0.1–30 µm, a VMD of 3.4 µm, and a GSD of 2.3. ” … https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4615563/
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Read the latest CDC information here, about how the CDC is finally instructing Doctors & Hospitals that the COVID-19 problem is from the highest-risk, Highly-infectious fine aerosols from COVID-19 infected people … innocently talking… just 5 minutes with a medical-grade mask indoors.
Infecting the air in the entire room… for 4 – 5 hrs … with the nastiest form of COVID-19 aerosols, that are ONLY STOPPED by N99 & N100 rated filter materials…
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Read what the CDC is quietly saying to Doctors & Hospitals, hidden deep in the CDC webpages:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-faq.html?fbclid=IwAR1b7IdWIzLw_RniQ5Vw4VGRAJ6oULy7CHTG-m8YVtFJCIYbRept-a8jiag
and
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-faq.html?fbclid=IwAR1NQJggHqCT67p7BktJU8ZPadj4zEVbxllNRwYBJC8aDQCAw7GWe2swc6o
Then note:
The CDC has finally, only recently, been reporting in their web pages that fine respiratory aerosols … primarily from talking … are the “primary cause of COVID-19 transmission” ..
The CDC has also reported that the fine respiratory aerosols from a COVID-19 infected patient, should prevent ALL medical personnel & clean-up personnel from entering the room of a COVID-19 patient … until the hospital air ventilation air-purification system has removed ALL the fine aerosols that remain for hours … after the patient has been discharged …
As CDC politician-doctors are now telling Doctors & Hospitals:
“In general, only essential personnel should enter the room of patients with COVID-19. … in full PPE protection ”
“After discharge, terminal cleaning (on patient rooms) may be performed by EVS personnel. …. They should ~delay entry~ into the room ~ until a sufficient time has elapsed for enough air changes ~ (strong ventilation) ~ to remove infectious airborne particles. ~ ”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-faq.html?fbclid=IwAR1NQJggHqCT67p7BktJU8ZPadj4zEVbxllNRwYBJC8aDQCAw7GWe2swc6o
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We need EFFECTIVE useful approaches… NOW…
Cloth masks do NOT work … Home-made cheap masks… and other non-medical masks do NOT work … because they leak over ~100 COVID-coughs ~ worth of the highest risk, most-infectious aerosols… with every breath we inhale.
We & our loved ones need superb proven medical-grade masks now… with N100 or N99 level filtering protection … that is 168X times safer-better than N95’s … in a comfortable mask that is hand-washable up to 70 times….
Email me at steven.m.fry@gmail.com … to get superb medical-grade masks
… for just $4 – $12 per each …
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after 3 days on plastic, steel (or tile) … the remaining active viral counts had fallen roughly 1000X times from their initial sneezed-coughed values. AT THESE LOW LEVELS, it is very unlikely a healthy person would be infected, because their immune system should stop those very low levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus.
When the sneezed droplets land~settle on plastic & stainless steel, then viable virus was detected after three days. … On cardboard, the virus was not viable after 24 hours. … Even on copper, (a mild germicide), it took 4 hours for the virus to become inactivated.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) research scientists found that it takes about 66 minutes for half the virus aerosol particles to become inactive.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces
Dilute bleach disinfectant … (4-6 tsps of Mexican bleach or 2 tsps of 8.25% US bleach in 500 ml of water) sprayed & wiped on surfaces (doorknobs, handles, counters, etc) is pretty important to breaking the COVID-19 chain …
1:50 => 4 tsps of MEXICAN “Concentrated” laundry bleach in ½ liter of water
For the very strong US versions of bleach with 8.25% Sodium Hypochlorite, use just 2 tsps of bleach per 500 ml of water.
BUT MAKE up that very dilute-chlorine disinfectant solution fresh ~EVERY DAY~ … because the chloro-dissipates.
~ Stay well, stay informed, stay safe. ~
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That means that by 132 minutes (66 more minutes), three quarters of the SARS-CoV-2 virus IN FLOATING DROPLETS … are inactivated … but 25% are still viable. … 3 hrs after the sneeze~cough … the droplet’s active virus levels are down to 12.5%.
Notice that after 3 hours, the sneezed virus droplets have very likely ALL settled onto surfaces, or and or dried out. … but the dry contagious aerosols (from sneezes) can swirl surprising distances, out of patient rooms & into the hallways, as a person opens the door – swirling the air.
Finally note …It takes 7 half-lives, after 8 hours … just 8 parts in 1000 (0.8%) of the active virus in those sneezed-deposited-settled droplets …
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Why Surgical masks? Surgical masks catch up to 99.9% of sneezed-launched droplets…
Finally … Notice that the path to you becoming infected with COVID-19 disease … is a CHAIN … (just like a cold virus) … BREAK any link in the chain, and the SARS-CoV-2 virus does NOT get into your eyes, mouth, nose etc…
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~ Stay well, stay informed, stay safe. ~
https://yucalandia.com/2020/03/29/time-to-up-your-covid-19-corona-virus-game/
The scientific Aerosol Science results are conclusive:
“1. The particle emission rate during speech is linearly correlated with the amplitude (loudness) of vocalization, for four different languages tested.
- The particle size distribution is independent of vocalization loudness or language spoken.
- Some individuals (…. the mysterious Super Spreaders of Coronavirus …) emit particles at a rate more than an order of magnitude larger (10 times more) than their peers, i.e., they behave as “speech superemitters.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38808-z
Notice GRAPH “D”
Loud talkers make 4X times more fine high-risk aerosols than soft talkers … Normal volume talkers making 2X times more fine high-risk aerosols than a soft talker.
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Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness
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The next article describes how long Corona virus lasts on surfaces, and in the air…
“Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has quickly outstripped the pace of the 2003 SARS epidemic. “Superspread” of the earlier disease arose from infection during medical procedures, in which a single infected individual seeded many secondary cases. In contrast, the novel coronavirus appears to be spread more through human-to-human transmission in a variety of settings. ”
HOW LONG DOES THE Coronavirus hang around in our homes?
“(Scientists) found that SARS-CoV-2 (in fine 1 um aerosols) was largely stable through the full 180-minute test, with only a slight decline at 3 hours. ”
“The researchers then tested the viruses on a variety of surfaces for up to 7 days, using humidity values and temperatures designed to mimic “a variety of household and hospital situations.” The volumes of viral exposures that the team used were consistent with amounts found in the human upper and lower respiratory tracts.”
“The novel coronavirus was most stable on plastic and stainless steel, with some virus remaining viable up to 72 hours (3 days). However, by that time the viral load had fallen by about three orders of magnitude, ”
Scientists found “the two viruses (SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2) differed in staying power on copper and cardboard. No viable SARS-CoV-2 was detectable on copper after 4 hours or on cardboard after 24 hours. … “
and
~ Stay well, stay informed, stay safe. ~
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Technical Notes:
The ≤ 1 μm fine aerosols from talking do not “fall” down to the ground …. They weigh less than 100 femtograms … so … They float & swirl & circulate for at least 4 – 5 hours … and they remain hazardous~infectious with 90% viral loads beyond 3 hours….
0.0000000000001 g = 100 femtograms… => an aerosol so fine, that it barely evaporates, even after hours of swirling around inside a room
These fine aerosols are so small & so-easily sucked deep into our throat & lungs by our normal breathing , that if you have any leaks or gaps around your mask (5% leakage for N95 masks and 40% leakage for cheap flat masks … and 70% leakage for home-made masks) , then these tiniest, invisible, most-infectious, highest-risk aerosols are swept around your mask … through your cheap mask … and DEEP into your throat & lungs…
Consider how we panic over just one 1 cough …. while a cough has just 60 of these fine aerosols…
While 5 min of normal-volume talking by a person without a mask … produces 104 coughs worth of these most infectious aerosols… 1500 Fine Aerosol Particulates for just 5 min of talking…
Our vibrating vocal cords are superb aerosol generators … and the Asymptomatic Spreader’s THROAT is putting-out peak amounts of virus during the 2 days before symptoms appear… dumping that throat virus-loaded mucous right onto our vocal cord fine-aerosol generators.
Note that these nastiest aerosols swirl & spread like mist … fog … slowly circulating out to 30 ft from the talker … CONTAMINATING a room for the next 4 – 5 hours…
Did anybody reading this notice that Social Distancing is DOES NOT WORK … not at all
… because these worst aerosols travel-swirl 20 – 30 feet from the talker … and the persist in a room … filling the room with contaminated infectious droplets …. circulating highly infectious for 4 – 5 hours … AND MOST MASKS DO NOT PROTECT AGAINST THEM…
Most masks leak too much … leaking in 4000 of the nastiest fine aerosols per 10,000 aerosols from an asymptomatic spreader – loud talker … who WAS IN THE ROOM 3 HOURS AGO…
Now, do we understand why compulsive hand washing, ~bleach spraying everything~ and “Social Distancing” are not working … They’re the wrong solution – that don’t work for this Coronavirus problem …. Instead,
Get a good mask!
The “95” in the N95 masks … means it leaks 500 of the worst nasty aerosols out of just 10,000 particulates …. INSTEAD A GOOD mask … made of surgical barrier cloth … like an N100 mask only leaks in 3 fine aerosols per 10,000 … and yes, our immune systems & respiratory mucous membranes EASILY HANDLE 3 fine aerosols…
So on a relative scale, your N95 mask is leaking at least 500 contaminated most-infectious aerosols, out of 10,000 fine aerosols ( 8 COVID-coughs worth ) … while a good surgical barrier cloth mask leaks only 3 particulates… https://yucalandia.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-update-how-to-avoid-or-prevent-your-most-risky-exposures/
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Note that “Social Distancing” cannot save you from the toxic talking-aerosol mists. ~
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/coronavirus-choir-outbreak
USS Roosevelt Crew Stricken by Coronavirus
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- Have your nose, throat, & lung’s mucous layer system running at peak efficiency!
That means having …. ~ Thin watery mucous ~ …. coating your lungs, throat & nose … as your SECOND line of defense (behind your mask)
How do we get “thin watery mucous” ?
… Drink enough fluids until your pee is clear or only light straw color, to keep your mucous thin & runny …
Why do we want “thin watery mucous” ?
Because there are 10’s of millions of the cilia in your mucosal layer (10’s of millions little sweeper cells) ALL beating in unison … waving, whipping…. to sweep the virus particles out of your throat & lungs … to go past your epiglottis… and fall into your stomach to die immediately in the acidic low pH 2, due to stomach acids..
So, “thin watery mucous” allows the little sweeper-cilia cells to sweep the Coronavirus fine particulate aerosols… down into our stomach … to be destroyed by our stomach acid.
Since the PRIMARY mode of Coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission is inhaling respiratory aerosols … Keep drinking, till your pee is clear… or only light-straw yellow color … to keep those sweepers, sweepin’…
and keep those immune system components … on deck … ready to rumble… when the virus hits.
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500 mg – 1,000 Vit. C a day is necessary during stressful times to protect your already stress compromised immune system, specifically higher levels of Vit. C throughout the day … to protect our highly-important immune compounds ~ responses that fight Coronaviruses …
By taking enough Vit. C, the Vitamin C acts a “body-guard” molecules throughout your body to protect critical … Antibodies & Lymphokines and Immune System defense cells: Macrophages, Killer-T Cells (T-Lymphocytes), Dendritic Cells, White Blood Cells (Basophils & Eosinophiles) …. the key defensive components of our immune system, that attack and destroy the Coronaviruses … But note…. These immune system components need protection, by their own body-guards, so they don’t get ruined before they can do their job.
Sadly, all of these critical immune system components are all damaged or ruined by the consequences of viral attacks on our nasal, throat, & lung lining (mucosal lining) cells. When the virus causes the death of our mucosal layer cells … the dying cells lyse (apoptosis) and split open, releasing lots of nasty free-radicals, nitric oxide & harmful oxidants… chemicals that damage or wreck our immune system’s Antibodies & Lymphokines and Immune System defense cells.
To protect these most important immune system components, they need a powerful-but-proven-safe anti-oxidant “body-guard” molecule, like Vitamin C. … Vitamin C reacts within nano-seconds to neutralize the free radicals, oxidants & nitric oxide & cell death products => protecting our critical Immune System components, allowing them to do their jobs of killing viruses & bacterial invaders.
Why eat Vitamin C?
Only 2 kinds of creatures on earth need to eat dietary Vitamin C … Primates ( including Humans) … & Red Vented Bul-bul birds (and other birds). … Why? … All other animals evolved to make it themselves, but because we primates have evolved over millions of years, with lots of fresh fruits & veg in our diet, we don’t make it ourselves… and we must EAT Vit C every day …. Pigs make their own Vitamin C, Goats, Cats, Dogs make their Vitamin C…. but we have to eat FOODS CONTAINING Vitamin C, about 4 times a day.
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Servings (as cups) every 4 hours of Vitamin C … Vit C Content …. mg / serving
10 cups – Apple (manzana) = 12 mg. (1 cup raw)
12 cups – Avocado (aguacate)=10 mg (1 cup raw).
1½ cup -Brocoli = 81 mg (1 cup raw)
1¼ cup – Cabbage (repollo) = 93 mg. (1 cup raw)
2 cup- Cantaloupe (Melon Chino) = 57 mg (1 cup serving)
2/3 cup- Chaya 180 mg (1 cup serving)
… a super-food with 7 g protein, 300 mg Ca, 10 mg iron,1357 units Vitamin A, (1 cup raw)
2½ cup – Grape fruit (toronja)= 50 mg (whole)
1/3 cup of Guava (guayaba)= 373 mg (1 cup raw)
1½ cup – Kiwi = 93 mg (1 cup raw)
3 -Lemon = 44 mg (whole)
4 – Lime (Limon)= 30 mg (whole)
2 cup – Mango = 60 mg (1 cup raw)
2 – Orange (Naranja) = 58 mg (whole)
1 cup – Orange Juice (Jugo de Naranja) = 125 mg (1 cup)
2/3 cup- Pepper (pimiento rojo)= 190 mg (1 cup raw)
1¼ cup – Pepper -Green Chile (spicy) (ChileVerde) = 109 mg (1 cup raw)
1¼ cup – Papaya = 100 mg (1 cup raw)
1½ – cup – Pineapple (Piña) = 78 mg (1 cup raw)
2 cup – Potato (Papas) (Microwaved) = 72 mg
1¼ cup – Strawberry (fresa) = 100 mg. (1 cup raw)
Again, these portions are eaten about 4 times a day, to maintain good Vit C levels to fight the Coronavirus.
NOTE: Boiling any of these reduces Vitamin C by at least 50% … Microwaving preserves most Vit C.
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Practical Considerations for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Risk Reduction
It’s
~ Clearing up MISCONCEPTIONs Day ! ~
Misconception #1:
Coronavirus (or any upper respiratory virus) is somehow magically handled like in the same ways you protect yourself from the “24 hr flu” (aka bacterial food poisoning) … imagining that Coronavirus is somehow magically like protecting yourself from Salmonella, fecal coliforms (pooh bacteria), Campylobacter, Listeria and other FOOD CONTAMINANTS … Fortunately … Coronovirus is completely different from bacteria … and the ways you protect yourself are very different from defeating GI-pathogenic bacteria.
Why?
Coronavirus DOES NOT REPLICATE on a surface …. It just slowly degrades ~ dies . So time is on your side…. as the viruses outside our mouth, throad & lungs … dry-out & die out ! … over time. … Time is on your side !
Table of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Median Half-Life Times on Surfaces
| Surface | SARS-CoV-2 (hr) | SARS-CoV-1 (hr) |
| Copper | 3.4 | 3.76 |
| Cardboard | 8.45 | 1.74 |
| Steel | 13.1 | 9.77 |
| Plastic | 15.9 | 17.7 |
Notice that it takes 4 half lives for 94% of the viruses to die off…. and just 6 half lives for a 98.5% of a virus to die off… Just 1.5 out of 1000 viruses are alive after 6 x Half Life … Fortunately … at those low levels … the small amounts of remaining viruses (after 4 – 6 half lives) are very unlikely to be able to infect a healthy person, even if they touch the contaminated surface … and IMMEDIATELY stick their finger in their eye, nose, or mouth… Then notice it takes 10 full Half-Life periods to get top Virologists preferred 1:1000 reductions of live virus counts.
That’s why wearing even a simple paper mask can BREAK THE CHAIN of infection … because even the simple mask BLOCKS the finger-lickers & booger-pickers from sticking their fingers into their noses, and mouths. … and the simple paper mask catches the sneezed-droplets ~launched at 220 mph~ … & it catches the cough launched-droplets at 60 mph … and catches our vocalized fine aerosols from talking …
because 5 minutes of talking spews out the same 3000 droplets that a cough launches…
Misconception #2:
Viruses magically reproduce & grown on surfaces, like Bacteria …
Reality… Viruses do NOT grow on surfaces … They die on surfaces.
So why do the CDC & WHO talk so much about cleaning surfaces these past years?
Notice that BACTERIA, like salmonella, fecal coliforms, et al … DO grow and reproduce on surfaces … living & expanding over time on surfaces… while viruses just slowly dry out and die on a surface … dead in 4 hrs on copper, 24 hrs on cardboard (cloth etc), and 2 – 3 days on plastic, steel & tile …
Then realize that the cleaning methods are DIFFERENT for Bacteria vs Coronavirus.
…. Bacteria are not really harmed much by soap … while SOAP DESTROYS Coronavirus … and TIME destroys Coronavirus.
Educate yourself on the KEY DIFFERENCES ….
Corona virus is spread by SNEEZES, COUGHS, & TALKED viruses …sprayed aerosols of SPIT & SNOT … spread by people NOT wearing their little paper masks…. Wearing a mask, catches your 5 minutes of aerosol spit droplets from talking, that equals one COUGH…
750 – 6.000 total fine invisible highly infectious fin aerosols, from talking for just 5 minutes IS primarily HOW THE CORONAVIRUS is spread by the people who are COVID-19 infected but have no symptoms…
WEAR A MASK … when around others … because you don’t want your vocal sound produces … sprayed fine aerosols from talking indoors …. floating around, highly infectious, indoors, for hours…
~ Stay well, stay informed, stay safe. ~
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“Among patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, viral loads in the upper respiratory tract are high; as a consequence, respiratory secretion in the form of aerosols (<5 μm) or droplets (>5 μm) is likely, the authors note. ”
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/926929?src=soc_fb_200318_mscpedt_news_mdscp_surfaces&faf=1&fbclid=IwAR3iAooxQu5JmujwedyCbrTUsHD0xxbddMcl4iEa4AxafmPRI8aFdFVtx2g
The SCIENTISTS (not medical doctors) … found that SARS-CoV-2 was largely stable ~contagious~ in the air … through the full 180-minute test, with only a slight decline at 3 hours. … SO … IGNORE the WHO … IGNORE the CDC … MASKS WORK ! … to stop the virus spread.
MISCONCEPTION #3:
Sadly, the WHO Medical Doctors & CDC Medical doctors have been MISTAKENLY telling people that masks supposedly “don’t work” … while scientists prove that masks DO WORK.
Sadly, Medical Doctors typically have only very limited scientific training on these things (Medical Doctors are NOT scientists) … and … Sadly, for the last 3 months the Medical doctors … and TV DOCTORS … and CDC medical doctors …. have mistakenly CONFUSED Coronavirus upper respiratory-specific virus transmission methods with common Gastrointestinal bacterial transmissions**
**Bacterial infections are SPREAD BY CONTACT ~ “smear” ~ touch … while viruses spread by airborne swirling-for-hours, invisible, fine aerosol droplets from people talking indoors … which is why a MASK protects people from Coronavirus spread… by BREAKING the chain of infection…
…. while mask wearing does little to stop bacterial spread… except to stop the booger-pickers & finger-lickers from sticking their fingers into their noses & mouths.
Why?
**Bacteria spread by growing, and often ~ MULTIPLYING ~ on each new surface … While Coronavirus needs human cells to reproduce … by specifically hijacking our nose-lining cells … our throat-lining cells … and our lung lining cells … THAT’s WHY IT IS SO CRITICAL TO wash your hands before touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
MISCONCEPTION #4
” You can catch Coronavirus from: ”
~ petting the dog
~ your clothes
~ the food you bring home from the grocery store…
~ sitting with someone who is 2 meters away, with both people wearing masks…
Notice that all of these routes would require you touching the other person’s still-wet snot droplets or wet spit droplets … and then you would have to nearly immediately SMEAR that wet snot-spit droplet into your eye, nose or mouth ….
and…. the snot-spit droplet would have to come from a sick person actively shedding lots of virus … (in the 2 days before the fever & the 2 days after the fever)…
So, if a sick person sneezes onto your clothes, or onto your dog … then don’t smear their snotty infected droplets into your eye, nose, mouth or throat … Protecting yourself from contact-based “smear”-based Coronavirus transmissions … is as simple as washing your hands … before you stick your fingers into your eyes, nose or mouth…
Or … better still … rub your itchy eye or itchy nose with the back-of-your hand or with your wrist … or … Even better ? Wear a little paper mask … to block yourself from unconsciously inserting your fingers into your mouth, eye or nose…
No more finger-lickin’ … nose-picking behaviors … unless you want to infect yourself.
