skevinp Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Terri Schehr said: And I wear it correctly, too. I’m about done with these under the nose people. My nose is so far from my mouth I have to wear two masks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skevinp Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Whatever happened to surfaces? There was a time people thought they were more dangerous than airborne transmission. Do we have any solid information in that now? It seems important because a lot of transactions involve putting things down for someone else to pick up. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Windish Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 1 hour ago, skevinp said: Whatever happened to surfaces? There was a time people thought they were more dangerous than airborne transmission. Do we have any solid information in that now? It seems important because a lot of transactions involve putting things down for someone else to pick up. Yeah, the "beware of surfaces" thing seems to have gone away. I'm also amused by the 6 foot social distance edict. Why 6 feet? There is no empirical evidence to justify this, or any other level, as safest. Look, there really is a Covid-19 virus with contagious properties. It's just that the necessary precautions are difficult to verify. Then, too, all of this comes with attempts to make political associations. That's why I expect attitudes to change with the coming election result. No matter how that shakes out, the motivation for such associations will be much less. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 6 hours ago, Brian Tuma said: “Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or...” lol. Yeah, I’m twelve! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waw7pvF1ZSk Well, millions of children have seen this movie/movie clip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUARDLING Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 hours ago, skevinp said: Whatever happened to surfaces? There was a time people thought they were more dangerous than airborne transmission. Do we have any solid information in that now? It seems important because a lot of transactions involve putting things down for someone else to pick up. Easy answer IMO. This is a virus that we knew nothing about. It has been ever changing and we don;t know what long term effects will be. AS more is learned or the virus changes so will everything else. Nothing with this will be black and white. We can't look for a solid antidote when something keeps changing or more is learned. JMO 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, GUARDLING said: Easy answer IMO. This is a virus that we knew nothing about. It has been ever changing and we don;t know what long term effects will be. AS more is learned or the virus changes so will everything else. Nothing with this will be black and white. We can't look for a solid antidote when something keeps changing or more is learned. JMO Guardling, can you please stop reading the news and being informed? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skevinp Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 27 minutes ago, GUARDLING said: Easy answer IMO. This is a virus that we knew nothing about. It has been ever changing and we don;t know what long term effects will be. AS more is learned or the virus changes so will everything else. Nothing with this will be black and white. We can't look for a solid antidote when something keeps changing or more is learned. JMO So we don’t even try to understand it? My wife is currently on a leave of absence because she is high risk but that runs out at the end of next month. She will have to either return to her job or lose her job and our health insurance with it. That job involves a lot of interactions where she will have to touch things that other people just touched. I am just trying to understand the risks because of the decision we have to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Lancer Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) 57 minutes ago, skevinp said: So we don’t even try to understand it? My wife is currently on a leave of absence because she is high risk but that runs out at the end of next month. She will have to either return to her job or lose her job and our health insurance with it. That job involves a lot of interactions where she will have to touch things that other people just touched. I am just trying to understand the risks because of the decision we have to make. I recall reading a few articles about a month or so ago that said the odds of contracting the coronavirus from surfaces is low. However, that hasn’t stopped my wife and I from either quarantining or disinfecting every thing that comes into the house and washing our hands compulsively. Edited July 18, 2020 by Jurassic Lancer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 6 hours ago, skevinp said: Whatever happened to surfaces? There was a time people thought they were more dangerous than airborne transmission. Do we have any solid information in that now? It seems important because a lot of transactions involve putting things down for someone else to pick up. The CDC updates their page as more becomes known: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html Some recent studies I've seen in the news indicate that surface transmission although possible is not the primary way the virus spreads. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Fred Windish said: Yeah, the "beware of surfaces" thing seems to have gone away. I'm also amused by the 6 foot social distance edict. Why 6 feet? There is no empirical evidence to justify this, or any other level, as safest. I don't think anyone claiming that 6 feet is the safest distance. It's safer than 5 feet and not as safe as 7 feet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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