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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 ...
mell saysPossible but unlikely and not responsible for the large rise. It's all the youngsters partying since they can't work or go to school. What do you expect from them they got nothing else to do.
The problem is new cases include those that tested positive for antibodies I thought? Those could be from Feb through June and are no longer able to spread the virus. So it doesn't matter.
Also, every time I go to a grocery store I'd say 85% of the customers are 65 and older. Maybe a touch hyperbolic, but not that far off from my experience. AARP and any other senior organization needs to be doing the hard sell that the oldies need to stay home. Have friends or family get your groceries.
You shouldn't be leaving the house. You are the ones overwhelming the 1 or 2 hospitals in the country the media likes to report. Stay home. Nah, they'll just wander around a grocery store in the...
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