Why are you even bothering, seriously? You're wasting your time. Every so often certain people just pop into the thread for a 5 page fishing expedition for their amusement.
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion
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That’s deflection which really just proves my point.
You need to start using your brain and common sense.
It’s good to disrupt the really unhealthy groupthink here.
People need to move on from these unhealthy anxiety inducing scare stories now.
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I'm just saying having studied gas detection (civil engineering) technologies and having used it as an experiment to see if we could detect breath - it's very clear your breath creates an aerosol around you when you breathe / talk / etc.... so it's not particularly hard to believe that someone who is ill, either with flu/cold/covid/an other airborne pathogen, can spread it fairly easily if in an enclosed unventilated space. As I said, the chance of it out doors decreases significantly. However suggesting that breath doesn't "carry" and that gravity pulls your breath to the ground is incorrect.
The general thought originally was you needed to spend 15 mins within 2m of someone to have a reasonable chance of catching covid from them. The latest strains this is probably a fair bit less for time.
As you say dispersion modelling can find all sorts of weird things like clouds of particles behaving like a stream and travelling substantial distances if the conditions are right.
As you say dispersion modelling can find all sorts of weird things like clouds of particles behaving like a stream and travelling substantial distances if the conditions are right.
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Yeah from what I've read the new strains are a bit more resilient, but again I have no idea if that's true - I mean I still think a well ventilated room/outdoors you'd have to be really unlucky to catch it, but gasses/molecules can be quite chaotic but also quite "focused" given the right conditions. I mean the cameras we used don't exactly prove or disprove it, but it was quite fascinating, even gasses we detect don't always behave how you'd expect. I'll let the experts explain it better, I'm just an engineer and not a physicist!
Way less than that now. I'm sure on the John Campbell videos he's said each strain (i.e. original -> alpha -> delta -> omicron) is something like 30% more transmissible each time. I'm not sure if that means it spams out into the air more or whether you just need to catch less of it to become infected.
I'm still not clear on that - another possibility is it can more easily enter cells or similar or is less easily removed naturally from mucosal surfaces (kind of backwards way of putting it but I'm not sure how to describe it better).
3 make that 6 that I can remember. Its not actually a chest infection just coughing up phlegm that's blocking my airways, it just builds up. Lungs last week felt they were getting back to normal then back to feeling about 50% by the weekend. One of my hobbies is jogging, i used to run a 5k casually in around 26 mins (heavy inclines) and ran a half marathon not that long ago so im no slouch but I cant even walk the dogs now without an inhaler and breaks etc.
Got spirometry test on Monday next week followed by another chest x ray in a few weeks.
Look, in the nicest way possible, you are hilariously stupid and really need to stop talking like you know how gasses behave. At this point I am convinced you're just trolling because otherwise, lol...
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Sounds similar to me. Has covid a few weeks ago and got it again, had 2 chest infections since. I was no marathon runner but reasonably healthy. My breathing is messed up and phlegm constantly.
Then post some evidence to back up your claims - is it really that hard? Ffs lol
Think how far a fart travels, that simply enough for you
