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> It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally. That seems like the hypothesis they suggest. Interesting implications.
All the people who were made fun of in middle school for being a 'mouth breather' will have the last laugh.
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It's not clear that it spreads via aerosols, in fact it's more likely that it spreads via droplet and contact. Thus the virtue of the mask is that it keeps the individual's fingers away from their faces. From the perspective of the theory in the article, masks keep people's fingers out of their noses. Of course, there are other ways to do that.
Such as?
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Telling people they should wear masks because they don't put them on properly is like telling people they shouldn't drive cars because some people drive them into trees.
I am bookmarking this comment for the time after self-driving cars have become universally available.
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Oddly enough, I was on the "pandemic" bandwagon early enough that my period of anxiety and insomnia has now passed already. People get used to new states of affair pretty quickly.
I hardly ever have to deal with anxiety, but now I have a headcold and my coworker sitting 6-feet to my right has a mask on...
As a side observation: most reporting seems rather binary, i.e. you either die or survive, period. What interests me the most, however, is how often survival means full recovery, especially now that the nervous system comes up. Are there any long term effects? Should one generally expect to come out of it worse, the same, or stronger? I'm much less afraid to die from this than to end up with chronic respiratory and/o…
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If that's your goal (and it is not an unreasonable one) you can achieve that with a bandanna. You don't need a surgical mask.
I'm enjoying the thought of software engineers everywhere coming into work with bandanas covering their faces.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-china-tech-fi...
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EDIT - Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't take precautions or that it's not worth protecting vulnerable groups. I'm simply suggesting that perhaps there is news coverage about other things (remember the whole Hong Kong situation that we aren't hearing about suddenly?) that might still deserve some air time. The media is profiting off this story big time. It's like when the plane went missing and a…
I would like to see more details about those affected, age, immuno compromised or not, asthma or not. Its hard to really draw any comparison to flu or anything else as things stand right now.
From the paper: > If the neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 does take a part in the development of respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients, the precaution with masks will absolutely be the most effective measure to protect against the possible entry of the virus into the CNS. It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasa…
Yes, only a N95 or better mask would protect you from incoming, as opposed to outgoing, viruses, and these masks are both impractical for everyday wear and need to be conserved for public health users.
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EDIT - Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't take precautions or that it's not worth protecting vulnerable groups. I'm simply suggesting that perhaps there is news coverage about other things (remember the whole Hong Kong situation that we aren't hearing about suddenly?) that might still deserve some air time. The media is profiting off this story big time. It's like when the plane went missing and a…
Given there's no herd immunity, and the virulance of the strain, estimates are 40-70% of the population will contract the virus within a year 0.2% of 40% of the US Population is 260,000 deaths within a year[1] "it's just the flu" greatly underappreciates just how deadly influenza actually is If the mortality rate is more in the 2%+ range, we're looking at millions of deaths in the US alone. [1] https://www.wolframalp…
[0]https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1235247642814214145
[1]https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/related-stig...