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> that and airborne pathogens aren't the biggest vector of transmission, so much as if you cough on something, someone touches it the next day, then rubs their eyes. so someone sneezes at your mask and you're safe, then you take off your mask with your fingers, and rub your eyes and oh shit.
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> so wash your hooves regularly. coronavirus can persist on clean surfaces for days.[/bq]
I'm pretty sure this is a little backwards. Coronavirus isn't technically transmitted airborne (i.e., freefloating viruses), but primarily by (airborne) droplets and secondarily by droplet-contaminated surfaces. However, while a few viruses can and do survive for a day or even longer on various surfaces, their contagiousness rapidly drops off, because it normally takes a lot of individual viruses to effectively infect someone, and most of the viruses tend to die off pretty quickly (following a roughly exponential curve). Touching something someone sneezed on ten minutes ago is far riskier than touching something someone sneezed on a day ago.
Just a flurry of H₂O
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> that and airborne pathogens aren't the biggest vector of transmission, so much as if you cough on something, someone touches it the next day, then rubs their eyes. so someone sneezes at your mask and you're safe, then you take off your mask with your fingers, and rub your eyes and oh shit.
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> so wash your hooves regularly. coronavirus can persist on clean surfaces for days.
I'm pretty sure this is a little backwards. Coronavirus isn't technically transmitted airborne (i.e., freefloating viruses), but primarily by (airborne) droplets and secondarily by droplet-contaminated surfaces. However, while a few viruses can and do survive for a day or even longer on various surfaces, their contagiousness rapidly drops off, because it normally takes a lot of individual viruses to effectively infect someone, and most of the viruses tend to die off pretty quickly (following a roughly exponential curve). Touching something someone sneezed on ten minutes ago is far riskier than touching something someone sneezed on a day ago.