Chuck McGill

6y

Sinners need to wake tf up... period.

Undecided

6y

theyre gonna have to do mandatory quarantine in the US. Down the block from where I live theres several houses with like 4-5 cars outside.

0

6y

what do you think air is? it's made up of particles

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

SARS-CoV-2 remained viable in aerosols throughout the duration of our experiment (3 hours)

SARS-CoV-2 was more stable on plastic and stainless steel than on copper and cardboard, and viable virus was detected up to 72 hours after application to these surfaces

Puma

6y

Pictures

LXS

6y

Synopsis prolly hoping I get it smh

frenchpress

6y

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particles in air have different weights, and the conclusion "remained viable in aerosols throughout the duration of our experiment" does not do much to specify regarding the initial question i asked

edit: rzn it isn't specifying much is because it's not well-defining what "viable" means. does that mean the particles exist, yet have simply fallen to the bottom of the container? or are the particles mixing as spontaneously as the other gases in air do? the latter would make the case of the virus existing "in air" much more definite, but i haven't seen things that come to a conclusion in that way.

additionally the goldberg drum, which your study says they use, is useful for modeling a situation which isn't typical for all situations. a probable a***ogue would be something like if many people with the virus coughed a lot in a train car, but even then, the space of a train section is much larger than a goldberg drum. though maybe this study used a really big goldberg drum. dunno.

however outdoor space is not really like a goldberg drum since outdoor space is not as dramatically contained

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6y

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i think to answer your earlier question the particles aren't going to be floating around by themselves like little fairies for hours on end but if there is any normal matter like dust or a cough or someone's cold breath walking down the street will have a potential wide spread

obviously the more confined the higher the likelihood of a transmission. i wouldn't want to get in a stranger's uber right about now

if i had to guess a majority of these types of in the wild spread events come from handrails and things like that much more so than direct air spread

they say this has a higher R0 than the flu to put it in perspective

frenchpress

6y

yeah i think that's a reasonable conclusion. places w contained (& circulating? unsure if that variable is necessary) air are definitely going to be susceptible to the "in air" claim

i think my concern w the headlines i've been reading is that "in air" gives people the impression, which i believe may be wrong, that the virus is something a person can simply step outside of their house, inhale, and then return into their house a suddenly infected man

frenchpress

6y

yeah i think that's a reasonable conclusion. places w contained (& circulating? unsure if that variable is necessary) air are definitely going to be susceptible to the "in air" claim

i think my concern w the headlines i've been reading is that "in air" gives people the impression, which i believe may be wrong, that the virus is something a person can simply step outside of their house, inhale, and then return into their house a suddenly infected man

g6ntiana

6y

damn thats not good

Wigga Scientist

6y

My amazon package saying it requires a signature just leave it at the door dog

LXS

6y

Synopsis prolly hoping I get it smh

Grok Touched Me

6y

My dad just said he’s genuinely worried for himself
He’s got diabetes and asthma

g6ntiana

6y

damn thats not good