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If I can smell the guy next to me, I can surely catch his virus. Non-N95 masks do not work.
by tamaharbor 5y ago
If I can smell the guy next to me, I can surely catch his virus. Non-N95 masks do not work.
- ceejayoz 5y agoActually, no. Volatile scent compounds are are dramatically smaller than virus particles. Hydrogen sulfide is three atoms; coronaviruses have roughly two hundred million atoms. You can smell a fart from across the room, but you're not getting E. coli from it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/ > He asked a colleague to break wind directly onto two Petri dishes from a distance of 5 centimetres, first fully clothed, then with his trousers down. Then he observed what happened. Overnight, the second Petri dish sprouted visible lumps of two types of bacteria that are usually found only in the gut and on the skin. But the flatus which had passed through clothing caused no bacteria to sprout, which suggests that clothing acts as a filter.