London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline

Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by netsharc on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:43AM (#23290638)

Not OP, but I had the same theory but with cigarettes. According to Google results, cigarette smoke particles are 0.25 micron at the largest, Sars-CoV-2 virus is 0.12 micron, so about half. They're both so light that gravity probably has little effect.

So, sharing a room with someone sick probably gives you a high chance of encountering the virus, but outdoors one hopes the concentrations would be so low that our bodies can fight it off.

And if you're wearing a mask and can still smell cigarette smoke, then surely it means that mask would let the virus particles through as well.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by TeMPOraL on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:53AM (#23290677)

And in fact, this is how you test the respirator fit in professional setting. You don your respirator, and then somebody sprays a funny-smelling substance. If you can smell it, it means it doesn't have a proper seal on your face.

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