it's been well known since at least April
Posted on: February 17, 2021 at 09:32:57 CT
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and earlier by those actually studying it that covid is aerosol (small droplet) driven. but all the focus was on disinfection and barriers. my favorite example, the NY subway system spent millions of $ taking trains out of service to disinfect them every day, which caused more crowding due to reduced capacity. fvcking politicians and bureaucrats
Our finding that the proportion of small respiratory droplets [the majority of particles exhaled in all subjects, as has been previously observed (23)] increased at the peak of COVID-19 infection in NHPs (Fig. 4) confirms a previously published observation (17) from the exhaled aerosol profile of a single COVID-19 positive human subject, and suggests that, at peak infection, there may be an elevated risk of the airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by way of the very small droplets that transmit through conventional masks and traverse distances far exceeding the conventional social distance of 2 m.