Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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LurkerJ said:

SvennoJ said:

Think the environment is gaining from Covid19?
Less planes, less traffic, sure, yet long term pollution is on the rise


The problem is, people don't trust bringing bags (or other things) into stores, hence you can only get your groceries with store provided plastic bags.

Virus Does Not Spread Easily from Contaminated surfaces or animals revised CDC website states.

Hope it's true. My hands have dermatitis from forcible repeated daily washing, touching anything with the slightest texture is worse than running my nails on chalkboards. Moisturizers aren't helping. 

LurkerJ, I think I heard that it was like a 60 / 40 split or something between getting it from caughing/sneezes/air breathed vs touching surfaces.
So your more likely to get infected from someone caughing than from touching something another with it touched.

Also virus load, is a HUGE thing.
If someone sneezes in your face, and you get a ton of the virus all at once right in the face...... the degree to which you get hit, will be worse than just getting a tiny bit of the virus on your hands and then from that infecting yourself. Basically the less virus you get, and the longer your immune system has to figur out how to deal with it, the better your outcome.

Another reason why face masks should be mandatory everywhere.
You could try gloves if your out, if your hands are in that state. To get around all the handwashing.