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Dantares wrote:Is it too extreme if I go to the store with bleach wipes and wipe down all the canned goods and boxes of rice and pasta before I put them in my cart?
Dantares wrote:Is it too extreme if I go to the store with bleach wipes and wipe down all the canned goods and boxes of rice and pasta before I put them in my cart?
Clyde_Style wrote:
Jimmit79 wrote:Yea RJ played well he was definitely the x factor
That picture looks straight out of an Onion articleIron Mantis wrote:"He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.htmlSpoiler:
Rasho Brezec wrote:
Those people are probably all infected by now.
Clyde_Style wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:
Those people are probably all infected by now.
If I was there I'd be wearing a bandana on my face and wiping myself down with anti-bacterial gel. I have no concept of how many people in that situation will contract it, because it is only communicable via surface to surface transmission, but there people are shoulder to shoulder. You rub up against someone, it lands on your sleeve, you touch your sleeve and then your face, etc. It is not airborne unless someone with it is face to face with you and they literally spray you which obviously is far more likely in these situations. Feel bad for everyone right now.
Rasho Brezec wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:Those people are probably all infected by now.
If I was there I'd be wearing a bandana on my face and wiping myself down with anti-bacterial gel. I have no concept of how many people in that situation will contract it, because it is only communicable via surface to surface transmission, but there people are shoulder to shoulder. You rub up against someone, it lands on your sleeve, you touch your sleeve and then your face, etc. It is not airborne unless someone with it is face to face with you and they literally spray you which obviously is far more likely in these situations. Feel bad for everyone right now.
Covering up your face isn't very effective in protecting you from getting infected, it only protects those already infected from spreading it on others.
Coronavirus is about 0.05-0.2 microns in diameter, bandanas and surgical masks can't filter out particles that small. N95 respirator masks are your best bet and they can only block out up to 95% of particles 0.3 microns in diameter. But you can't get those masks anywhere anymore, every country has to keep them in stock for healthcare staff.
Rasho Brezec wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:Those people are probably all infected by now.
If I was there I'd be wearing a bandana on my face and wiping myself down with anti-bacterial gel. I have no concept of how many people in that situation will contract it, because it is only communicable via surface to surface transmission, but there people are shoulder to shoulder. You rub up against someone, it lands on your sleeve, you touch your sleeve and then your face, etc. It is not airborne unless someone with it is face to face with you and they literally spray you which obviously is far more likely in these situations. Feel bad for everyone right now.
Covering up your face isn't very effective in protecting you from getting infected, it only protects those already infected from spreading it on others.
Coronavirus is about 0.05-0.2 microns in diameter, bandanas and surgical masks can't filter out particles that small. N95 respirator masks are your best bet and they can only block out up to 95% of particles 0.3 microns in diameter. But you can't get those masks anywhere anymore, every country has to keep them in stock for healthcare staff.
gavran wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:
If I was there I'd be wearing a bandana on my face and wiping myself down with anti-bacterial gel. I have no concept of how many people in that situation will contract it, because it is only communicable via surface to surface transmission, but there people are shoulder to shoulder. You rub up against someone, it lands on your sleeve, you touch your sleeve and then your face, etc. It is not airborne unless someone with it is face to face with you and they literally spray you which obviously is far more likely in these situations. Feel bad for everyone right now.
Covering up your face isn't very effective in protecting you from getting infected, it only protects those already infected from spreading it on others.
Coronavirus is about 0.05-0.2 microns in diameter, bandanas and surgical masks can't filter out particles that small. N95 respirator masks are your best bet and they can only block out up to 95% of particles 0.3 microns in diameter. But you can't get those masks anywhere anymore, every country has to keep them in stock for healthcare staff.
Surgical masks are effective in making sure you are not touching your face directly, which all of us do 80-90 times a day involuntarely. If course If someone sneezes is your face, they are useless.
Rasho Brezec wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:Rasho Brezec wrote:Those people are probably all infected by now.
If I was there I'd be wearing a bandana on my face and wiping myself down with anti-bacterial gel. I have no concept of how many people in that situation will contract it, because it is only communicable via surface to surface transmission, but there people are shoulder to shoulder. You rub up against someone, it lands on your sleeve, you touch your sleeve and then your face, etc. It is not airborne unless someone with it is face to face with you and they literally spray you which obviously is far more likely in these situations. Feel bad for everyone right now.
Covering up your face isn't very effective in protecting you from getting infected, it only protects those already infected from spreading it on others.
Coronavirus is about 0.05-0.2 microns in diameter, bandanas and surgical masks can't filter out particles that small. N95 respirator masks are your best bet and they can only block out up to 95% of particles 0.3 microns in diameter. But you can't get those masks anywhere anymore, every country has to keep them in stock for healthcare staff.
There's new evidence that the coronavirus can live on some surfaces for up to two to three days. Which surfaces? Here's NPR's Allison Aubrey.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: The new study looked at the novel coronavirus in a laboratory setting and found the virus can survive up to 72 hours on stainless steel and plastic surfaces and on cardboard up to 24 hours. Jamie Lloyd-Smith of UCLA is one of the authors.
JAMIE LLOYD-SMITH: We're talking about potentially days of infectivity on some of these surfaces.
AUBREY: The study gives a range of possible survival times, but keep in mind, in a lab, all the conditions are stable. In the real world. Factors such as sunlight can kill off viruses faster. Lloyd-Smith collaborated with scientists at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal lab, to do a series of experiments. They picked up bits of virus from surfaces that had been contaminated. They then put the virus in cell cultures to test whether it was still infectious. They also tested how long the virus remained viable in the air.
LLOYD-SMITH: What these experiments show is that the virus can remain viable floating in the air for some number of hours. The experiments went out to three hours, and, you know, there were still viable viruses present.
AUBREY: Lloyd-Smith says this experiment definitely does not prove that people have been infected this way by particles of virus that float in the air, what scientists call aerosolized transmission. He says what remains unknown is what dose is needed to infect someone.
LLOYD-SMITH: There are a lot of things we don't know, so we do not yet know how many viral particles need to get into somebody's airway to initiate an infection.
AUBREY: In all these tests, the new coronavirus tends to behave a lot like an older one, SARS, that led to an outbreak in 2003. In fact, the new study shows both viruses remain viable about the same amount of time. But that leads to an important question - why has this virus spread much more widely? Lloyd-Smith says there could be multiple reasons.
LLOYD-SMITH: Things like the apparent ability of this novel virus to be transmitted and shed by people who aren't showing severe symptoms or may not be showing symptoms at all, which makes this virus much harder to contain.
AUBREY: And given all this, the advice that we've been hearing for weeks now remains the same - wash your hands. That's still the best way to protect yourself. Allison Aubrey, NPR News.
Kampuchea wrote:NYKnickerbocker wrote:Kampuchea wrote:Am I still allowed to go to the gym?
I went today. Most I’ve ever seen people wipe off the treadmills before and after use lol
I’m in NJ, yeah I’m definitely wiping the machines. I ordered gloves, I don’t touch my face and I use sanitizer that’s kept in my car.
