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With all the talk about not touching your face, I fear that sometimes this is overemphasized for Corona virus. It is a virus with a viral envelope, and viruses
by wirrbel 7y ago
With all the talk about not touching your face, I fear that sometimes this is overemphasized for Corona virus. It is a virus with a viral envelope, and viruses with viral envelopes are especially unstable outside of the human body. Keeping your distance to people, not staying long in rooms where droplets may floating in the air carrying virus is just as important if not more.
Also, after washing your hands with soap, viral counts should be so low that there isn't a danger of infecting yourself anymore, so the situation where you sit at your laptop isn't especially dangerous IF YOU WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE USING IT (and possibly wiping the keyboard down with a wrung-out cloth that was soaked in soap water).
- ajross 7y agoNone of that is well-established. It might be right, but there hasn't been time to do the science. Certainly facial contact is a known vector for many viruses, including other coronavirus genera. This is a crisis. We have to work things via defense in depth and hope that it is enough. So we wash our hands, isolate, wear masks where available, and we don't touch our face. Please don't try to finesse a pandemic just to seem smart on the internet. No one knows whether you're right or not. Seriously, just don't touch your face.
- buzzkillington 7y agoIf you want to actually stop the spread of airborne diseases you should wear a full face respirator. The expensive models are extremely comfortable and can be worn indefinitely. Here's hoping they become acceptable.
- wirrbel 7y agoAll I want to say is: sure, touch don't touch your face. But don't forget to open up the windows for fresh air, hold your distance to other people