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SvennoJ on 13 July 2020
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JRPGfan said:
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.

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 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.

Outsides + daylight + everyone wearing mask = about as safe as you can be.
Unless you choose to just avoid contact with anyone else at all.

The sun doesn't kill Sars-Cov-2, UV-C light does but it gets filtered out by the ozone layer. UV-C light will damage your skin and eyes. However the sun does evaporate the water droplets leaving the virus with nothing to stay on. I'm not sure what happens with it then. That also seem relevant now has been proven that dogs can sniff out Sars-Cov-2 from sweat. Sweat dries up or falls off, what happens to the virus.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dogs-can-smell-covid-19-in-human-sweat/

Although it doesn't say there's actually active virus in sweat. Not much is known yet about that route of transmission
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1535370220935409
Based on the minimal previous research on the viruses closest to SARS-CoV-2, it is recommended that sweat as a possible route of transmission for SARS-CoV-2 be investigated. Given that ACE2, the entry point for SARS-CoV-2 into human cells, is relatively abundant in the skin, additional work should examine whether skin absorption of SARS-CoV-2 occurs, and whether such absorption can cause infection. Together, such investigations will enable either the ruling out of sweat, or absorption through skin, as methods of transmission, or will allow for formulations of mitigation strategies and appropriate public health messaging.

Kinda important when indoor gyms re-open again.

Humidity is high here in summer, which seems to be good for the virus to stay alive longer in the air. Outside the risk is minimal anyway, plenty wind here as well. Yet going inside a stuffy smallish building, no thanks. However my province is set to go to phase 3 this Friday, basically most places will be open again and far fewer restrictions on gatherings except the ban on large events.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/nearly-all-businesses-can-reopen-in-ontario-on-friday-toronto-area-excluded-1.5021599

Nearly all businesses, including gyms, movie theatres and indoor dining, can reopen on Friday in parts of Ontario, except for the Toronto-area and a few other regions, as the province enters Stage 3 through a regional approach. Indoor gathering limits will increase from 10 to a maximum of 50 people, while outdoor gathering limits will increase to a maximum of 100 people.

There will still be restrictions on nightclubs and no amusement parks etc. My county will open up again while still dealing with the aftermath of an outbreak at a local home improvement store. We seemed to have been done with it at 118 local cases, currently at 133. Reported cases are now also far younger, the same shift as in the USA. Requiring less hospitalizations, but the virus is still spreading and likely the ratio of undetected cases has only gone up with mild symptoms going unreported.

Still going down slowly, about 125 new cases a day in Ontario atm.

Good enough? ... I'm staying outside whenever possible.