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In 1980's, again, around the AIDS panic, they ran experiments with dyed aerosols in re-enacted medical environments and had medical personnel go about their business under maximum protective apparatus i.e. masks, gloves gowns, disinfecting protocols. In short, the dyes wound up all over the place aka fomites on touched surfaces, people wound up touching their noses and faces over and over, and no amount of prevention, no matter how onerous, prevented the aerosol dyes from winding up all over the place on surfaces and people. Also, hospitals are the places where the maximum amount of proscriptive masking, gowning and gloving take place, yet they remain the single most dangerous place as a niduses of pathogens of all kinds, including viruses.
Assuming you have Covid and you wear a mask, if you sneeze once, you have turned your mask into a fomite, fiddling with it will automatically result in transfer, anything you touch will now have virus, and points of commonality in touching ...
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