Well - maybe not, but it is reassuring to see the "Big Boys and Girls" are getting onto the same page as us as to how these viruses are transmitted.
Please read this article (thank you, Richard, for alerting me to this):
The take two home messages are:
Outdoors is great (especially in Windy Wellington)!
Indoors is not so great!
I have to thank Philip Hayward for being the one to bring this whole issue of aerosol transmission to our attention. Thank you, Philip.
On a related note: Isn't it wonderful to see fewer masks (and less fear) once again while out walking, running or cycling in that virus-free polar air that blasts Wellington and the rest of New Zealand? We can once again smile at each other and bid them a good day!
I just recently read a book called “Ceasar’s last breath’ which described the later journey of Caesar's last breath There are ten to the power of twenty molecules he breathed out in his last liter of air, after the stabbing.
By a good circumstance there are also about ten to the power of twenty litres of air in the entire atmosphere , which means that every time you take a breath you catch up on one recycled molecule from Caesar’s last breath.
Now we don’t know how long the Covid virus stays airborne and infective but there is this.
Over the last few months I have been wandering around so-called infected areas of Bangkok, and often, and breathing deeply throug…
Imagine the ultimate pathological specimen, He goes into a whisky sleep under the in house recycling ventilation system of an old Maha Sarakham hotel. Three weeks later they diagnose him as having Sars- Covid 1984 and Legionnaires disease to boot. He recovers and sells his blood plasma for a fortune; this every week for the rest of his life, whisky included.