Ok, fair enough. We cannot say based on current information if withholding some virus particles at the cost of delivering a few in a more long-lasting form is

Ok, fair enough. We cannot say based on current information if withholding some virus particles at the cost of delivering a few in a more long-lasting form is better or worse. Since we cannot test all possibilities here, it is then left to intuition and "wisdom". I have to believe that significantly reducing the number of virus particles in the air while allowing a few to linger longer would be preferable to the opposite. As I have observed, people are terrible at judging distances. I am probably more likely to get infected by a spray of cough droplets at close range than a few individual tiny droplets floating in the breeze. If I had my way, most people would be wearing masks permananently (and also not allowed to come within 3 meters of me), virus or not.