| haxxiy said: While I understand the need of caution, airborne transmission seems to be a minor chance or fluke at best for SARS-CoV-2 if it's even proven to occur at all. Pertussis and measles, for instance, are true airborne diseases and the difference in rate of contagion is insane. They can double or triple the number of people infected literally every day if let loose in an non-immunized population. |
You mean the "just beathing" part? vs a sneeze or a caugh?
I remember reading that only 40% of transmitions are from touching things (droplets on a surface area, and then you touching your face).
While the remaining 60% of infections is from someone sneezeing, caughing, breathing near you.
Its why you shouldn't gather in large crowds insides, and why being outsides is so good.
The blowing air, removes all those small particles that just hang around inside a room without ventilation.
Which then massively reduces chances of getting infected (ei. less infections out than in)
Same with sunlight, if your outsides in the sun, not only will the air blow away those particles, the sunlight does quick work with it.
This means that being outsides in daylight is safer than being outsides when its dark.
"Also, a small side curiosity. I've seen the case report of a man who contracted conjunctivitis from his girlfriend, ahem, passing gas to his face (you can imagine the sexual acts involved on your own). So, a warning on another airborne bacterial disease to you right there."
You can find liveing virus in excrement (poop), and the gases from toilets too.
Thats why you shouldn't be useing public restrooms if you can avoid it, during this pandemic.
in spain? they looked at sewage samples to determine when then virus got to spain, and actually found it had been there longer than they previously thought.
Wasn't there like a warning about guys that like to eat ass, getting infected from it? so they recammended people use a condom (for the tongue) while doing so. Lmao.
But yes, supposedly someone can fart, and infect others.
Outsides + daylight + everyone wearing mask = about as safe as you can be.
Unless you choose to just avoid contact with anyone else at all.
