wear a mask .

It's not classed as an airborne desease though. It will only travel about 3 - 4 foot. Polio. Now that's a proper airborne desease. Wear a mask if you want to. Wear one in bed if it makes you feel safer but the reality is a mask only gives you at most 30% protection.

 

Up to 27ft actually! Agree on the masks though, its an economic measure to get people out spending.

 

You see, this is where it gets confusing, so much information and dis-information that no one knows what to believe. It depends on who is saying what at the time. Just stay away from humans as much as you can.

 

Words to live by
Until I need help that is! Then humans are my favourite


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I vote for spaniels.

 

my youngest at Manchester airport this afternoon

 

Did she go shopping, the queues don’t look tooooo bad

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,always a silver lining

 

Just back from Tesco, social distancing whilst shopping has ended #facemasksmakeyouinvincible

 

Saw this. Quite good as a demonstration but I don’t know how accurate it is.
Something that isn’t being talked about is that if a carrier (supposedly a huge percentage of asymptotic people) isn’t wearing a mask, then the clothes you are wearing and every part of your exposed body, in the absence of social distancing (exacerbated indoors with large numbers of people visiting e.g supermarkets) is likely going to get covidofied!
Best practice is to shower and change clothes on returning home and avoid touching your face in the interim - if you haven’t worn gloves, which are a removable barrier.

It is also recommended to drink plenty of hot fluids, as anything lingering in the mouth will be swallowed perhaps prior to entering the lungs - and stomach acid is pretty darn good at killing things.


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I always need a cup of tea when I get back from shopping at Tesco but I think it might be a myth re the stomach acid thing.

 

Ha ha I always need a cup of tea full stop

My understanding is that the virus is a lung disease. In order for it to do its ‘worst’ it’s best course of entry is inhaled - serous amounts of capillaries for it to then enter the bloodstream. Hence mask wearing and distancing has been advocated.
However, since it is supposed that the virus also survives many days on various materials, it can be transferred from objects to the lungs vicariously through hand-to-face contact (worse is phone-to-face).

This is why it’s counterproductive to wear a mask in a supermarket, touch 100 things, touched by 100 people (times that by ten due to distribution etc), then leave the shop and use your gloveless hand, likely not sanitised, to remove the mask, make a call...scratch your bum and face etc.

Having a drink (this is in the absence of a mask and gloves in the first place), just gives you an opportunity to prevent inhaling too much.

Myth or not? The truth is this disease is not fully understood - hence the lack of complete directives on how to “control” it. The problem is most of what the government is advising is completely illogical, and that is confusing people to the point of not knowing what to comply with.


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She would have a long wait

 

Our local tesco has been a nightmare all along, with the clientele not giving AF. Nip over the road to sainsburys, and you generally have all the space you need. No idea why, but I avoid tesco like the plague now.. (no pun intended)

 

It’s airborne in so much as I don’t have to physically touch you to infect you, unlike HIV for example where we need to boomchicawaawaa or similar.

That gap between me and you is filled by air.

I agree it can’t travel a great distance, probably because the droplets we share are larger maybe, and it’s needs them as a host unlike other bugs that can exist on their own.


Btw 30% improvement over 65 million people is a lot of people not being ill!



As an aside, I can’t think of a single reason why a government benefits from people wearing masks...they proper bugger up surveillance and could help criminals....in which case why promote them?

 

A message to all those who nonchalantly wear masks around their necks like a badge of honour - you are making my pi$$ boil.

 

Sainsbury's was the favourite of the elders - they've all died so hence plenty of space !

 

'Nuff said

 

Thank your lucky stars it's not proper airborne like Polio. Just a thought, if a fart can get through a pair of pants and jeans, masks don't make much sense.

 

It does if viral load is significant.

I imagine far fewer molecules are required for us to smell something than Covid needs in a parts per million sense.