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You're misunderstanding what airborne means. It means you can get through the HVAC on your cruise ship, or at choir practice, or in any poorly ventilated space
by idlewords 6y ago
You're misunderstanding what airborne means. It means you can get through the HVAC on your cruise ship, or at choir practice, or in any poorly ventilated space no matter how far apart people stand.
- clairity 6y agono, that's mediopolitical narrative talking, to instill fear and promote compliance. airborne basically means 'viable virus aloft in the air', in contrast to something like ballistic motion or droplets. no study has conclusively proven that corona transmits, much less survives, in the air for any appreciable duration. at best, there is some inconclusive inference of it. the princess cruises case, for example, employed some contact tracing (with unreliable subjects) and pcr-tested for (dead) virus particles on surfaces well after-the-fact. none of that comes close to proving airborne transmission (especially not fanciful diagrams of what could have been--those aren't proof, just conjecture). infections were overwhelmingly likely to have spread through prolonged conversations indoors where people were breathing each others' direct exhaust ('droplets'), like you'd do on a vacation, not just by being on the same ship.
- idlewords 6y agoIt's science talking, dude. Lancet article published today: https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1382825519171833859 https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1382825519171833859