The big problem I keep seeing is the morons who wear a mask under their nose. It's difficult to get everybody to wear a mask, and everybody has to wear one for them to be effective. Their likely more effective at trapping viruses going out than coming in, so the people with the mask not covering their noses are likely causing issues even if everybody else is wearing one properly.
Last year we were focused on the droplets of saliva that people were spitting when speaking (in spite of that, morons that used the mask used to removed it to speak - this is as smart as wearing a condom during sex except to ejaculate). But that was last year.
Now we know that the virus is also airborne and given all the measures used to prevent transmission via droplets, it might air be becoming the method of transmission now. Airbone viruses mix in the air of closed spaces just like cigarette smoke.
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Ya conclusively airborne, quite a few good studies on Lancet.
Not much that can be done though for airborne viruses in gen pop.
Except wearing one of those full bubble head masks on indiegogo / kickstarter if they get delivered. before zeta variant.
Or the aliexpress masks with rechargeable air pumps clipped to your belt. Those seemed good. Have a whole mic-ampli-speaker circuit too for carrying your voice out.
By the time I make up my mind which high tech mask to buy the bloody wave goes away, only to return in few months.
LG and a few other nice brands had launched some masks with blowers, hepa & UV when I checked during the last wave (delta)
Only long term solution is telepresence type autonomous robots. Might be cheaper to hire the anti-vaxxers to run around carrying an ipad though
Not much that can be done though for airborne viruses in gen pop.
That's completely untrue. First, airborne doesn't mean bare viruses floating around in the air. It means the virus is floating around in tiny microaerosols. Those are heavy, so over time (hours), they fall out of suspension.
Second, risk of illness is a threshold function. Below a certain level, you don't get sick. Masks need not completely eliminate the contagion to lower the spread, because most of the air you breathe in, you also breathe out, so more often than not, the microaerosols pass harmlessly
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The big problem I keep seeing is the morons who wear a mask under their nose. It's difficult to get everybody to wear a mask, and everybody has to wear one for them to be effective. Their likely more effective at trapping viruses going out than coming in, so the people with the mask not covering their noses are likely causing issues even if everybody else is wearing one properly.
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Ya conclusively airborne, quite a few good studies on Lancet.
Not much that can be done though for airborne viruses in gen pop.
Except wearing one of those full bubble head masks on indiegogo / kickstarter if they get delivered. before zeta variant.
Or the aliexpress masks with rechargeable air pumps clipped to your belt. Those seemed good. Have a whole mic-ampli-speaker circuit too for carrying your voice out.
By the time I make up my mind which high tech mask to buy the bloody wave goes away, only to return in few months.
LG and a few other nice brands had launched some masks with blowers, hepa & UV when I checked during the last wave (delta)
Only long term solution is telepresence type autonomous robots.
Might be cheaper to hire the anti-vaxxers to run around carrying an ipad though
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By the time I make up my mind which high tech mask to buy the bloody wave goes away, only to return in few months.
Letting percetion be the enemy of good I see.
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Not much that can be done though for airborne viruses in gen pop.
That's completely untrue. First, airborne doesn't mean bare viruses floating around in the air. It means the virus is floating around in tiny microaerosols. Those are heavy, so over time (hours), they fall out of suspension.
Second, risk of illness is a threshold function. Below a certain level, you don't get sick. Masks need not completely eliminate the contagion to lower the spread, because most of the air you breathe in, you also breathe out, so more often than not, the microaerosols pass harmlessly