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That’s really not at all what these studies show. It’s direct airflow, over short periods of time. Your smoke theory would have everyone in both restaurants i

• aphextron 6y ago
  >Your smoke theory would have everyone in both restaurants infected, which is not what happened. Not everyone who's exposed gets infected, and most of those who do remain entirely asymptomatic. But some die. That's why this thing is so dangerous to the population as a whole. There's endless amounts of computational fluid dynamics research being done on this. It's pretty clear that the virus particles are suspended in the air like smoke [0]. [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753520302630#p0175 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092575352...
• lucb1e 6y ago
  I think it's a close enough analog. If there is sufficient ventilation, you might not smell it in one area but very strongly in another. If you place an infectious person in place of the smoker, you can guess where the danger zone is (not in the area free of smell). You're right, of course, that cigarette smoke carries further and many more people will be able to smell it than there are people at risk of infection in the same situation.