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The raccoon, or mouse, in your sick neighbor's attic last night, who goes into your attic tonight... The mink are the only ones we _know_ transmitted it. But

• clairity 5y ago
  > "Plus, since we learned it aerosolizes more than was initially thought, the animal that walked through your airspace 15 minutes before can share lungspace with you. They don't have to get that close to you, especially at night when the windspeed is low." such an infection would require the virus to hit a number of very low probability events in a row, like simply surviving outside the body for 15 minutes and a coordinated beelining of millions of particles into your lungs rather than dispersing out to the many orders of magnitude of space everywhere else around it. needless to say, it's quite unlikely, like less than lightning strike unlikely. as a society, we badly need to improve our ability to comparatively assess (and respond to) risk.