your crazy if you don't wear a mask. Listen to Dr. Fauci!

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https://bgr.com/2020/12/01/coronavir...-inflammation/

Please listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci and wear a mask and keep your distance from others to stop the spread of the virus. Wash your hands often. Wear the best type of mask you can find and afford. N95 are the best but are in short supply and ever since last March have been reserved for health care workers that work directly with Covid-19 patients.

Our hospitals are getting overwhelmed again. We need to do everything we can to stop the spread of this **** virus. Hospitals in our area are nearing full capacity. If you don't have Covid-19 and need to go to the hospital and end up on the ICU unit in critical care you may not get a bed and end up in the hallway on a gurney where the paramedics had to leave you. Even healthy young athletics who get the virus don't get over it completely. They get heart damage and something that the virus can pass through the brain-blood barrier and affect the brain. These people are called "Long Haulers" and they don't know how long the effects can last. Some say that it could take 10 years off your life. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle and is something you don't want to get. There are studies of young male football players around the college football game that have had MRI's showing that they have heart disease after recovering from the Covid-19.

Now Joe Biden is President-Elect and the Viris is still here. It's been 4 weeks since the election and the virus is worse now than it was last spring. As predicted by the real health experts the virus is not going away anytime soon. We do have some new treatments that if done early help survival rates. But we don't know the real long term effects of this virus for those that don't die. And the vaccine is around the corner but distribution is going to be hard as there are 326 million Americans that need to be vaccinated two times and possibly every year. And the flu is still going to hit us hard this year too.

So please wear a mask to stop your coughs, sneezes, and other emissions from spreading far from your mouth and nose.

The larger the droplet the more gravity affects it and the large droplets tend to fall out of the air after 6 ft. The virual load in these larger drops of spit can be much greater than the smaller droplets. Particles larger than 10 microns are pulled down faster by gravity than smaller sized particles in the 1 micron and lower range. Virus are about 0.1 micons in size but they hitch a ride on water droplets from our nose and mouth emissions. These droplets or spit particles tend to be larger than 10 microns.

So keep your distance and if everyone wears a mask we can greatly reduce the amount of spread.

Now smaller droplets of aerosols (<1 micron) can hang around in the air for a few hours. Still air indoors is where this happens.

Wearing a three-layer tight cotton woven mask (high thread count) can help reduce the spread of most of these aerosols. Now it can't stop them all but it can stop up to 90% fo them.

The viral load is greater in the larger droplets of spit so wearing a mask can reduce these large droplets from getting very far before infecting someone else.

But, remember that the smaller droplets or Aerosols can escape a mask if the mask is not fitted properly. Remember that these smaller < 1-micron aerosols have smaller amounts of virus in them.

So if you all wear a mask and keep your distance and wash your hands then we can all be safer.

I'm not saying that there won't be cases but the number of cases and the spread can be slowed down and flatten the curve. Right now the curve is steep and pointing straight up.

Remember that one infected person can spread the virus to 50 others in a tight room with still air and inadequate ventilation. This has been documented in some cases.

And low humidity in the winter months can dry out the sinuses. Dry sinuses can allow the nose and throat tissue to dry out and crack which allows the virus better entry into the body. Normally mucus lining the throat and nose protects us from virus and bacteria. But when the nose and mouth dry out due to lower humidity levels in the air we become more susceptible to airborne diseases. So the infection rates go up in the wintertime when more people gather together inside in dry still air. This is when the virus spread best.

People in close contact with each other for prolonged periods of time are more likely to spread the virus when only one person is infected in the room. This is why the number of infections continues to rise this November and December.

Yesterday here in Vanderburgh County, IN we had 266 new cases of Covid-19. This is a new record. In the last two weeks, the number of people getting newly infected each day has risen. We are breaking records each new day.

There are masks that are better than others. I have a full face respirator with HEPA filters that filter out particles down to 0.3 microns in size with 95% efficiency. I worked in the hazardous waste control industry. I was a project manager and supervised the projects that I designed. I was certified by the State Environmental Management Agency. I've worked in the Air Pollution Field for 30 years before I retired to go fishing and camping more. I've worked at the Environmental Protection Agency as an air pollution control manger. I worked in private industry as a quality control manager. I've worked for one of the largest analytical laboratories in the world. Core Laboratory, Inc out of Huston Texax with labs from coast to coast in the USA and other labs across the globe. I supervised 5 chemist and a few high school graduates who worked out in the field collecting samples for our lab. I started the microbiology water testing for drinking water which was hard to get certified by the State Board of Health. I started the labs asbestos sampling and analysis laboratory. I have done projects for some of the largest companies in the area. I did air sampling for asbestos and ran clearance sampling and analysis for million dollar projects. Some of my clients were ALCOA, General Electric. EVSC. Mead Johnson, General Foods, and Most every electric power plant within 50 miles in both IN, and KY. I did school projects in IL too. AHERA drove most of the work as all the grammar and high schools were required by law to come up with Asbestos Control Plans for all the schools. I've don't sampling and analysis for Vincennes University when they had an outbreak of Legionnaires disease. I've sampled for Radioactivity (Radon Gas)in Court Houses in the area. All this was hush hush. The reports we produced went to our clients not the Government when I was a consultant. When I worked for the EPA I reported the monitoring results back to the USEPA on a monthly basis. When the Chinese exploded an atomic bomb in China I was part of an air monitoring network though out the USA who tested the air for weeks looking for radioactive fall out dust. So when someone like TimE talks out his ass about masks I just laugh at his stupidity.

BTW. I'm a microscopist and have been using the Polarized Light Microscope for over 30 years. I went to school at the University of Alabama Birmingham to learn to analysis bulk building samples for asbestos content. I went to Texas A&M University at College Station, TX to learn to analysis for Airborne asbestos fibers. Earlier in my Career at the EPA I went to the USEPA Air Sampling and Analysist school to learn to sample the air for chemical air pollution. Before all that I went to Purdue University and graduated with honors. I was in Pre-Veterinary Medicine and then graduated with a degree in Environmental Science. I learned to sample and analysis water and air. I took microbiology, zoology, biology, ecology, oceanography, evolution, ecology, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, physic, math and a few more classes. Too many to mention. Over 120 hrs. of studies. Genetics was another important one. Even in HS I was in the advanced biology classes and help mentor other lower class students when I was a Jr and Sr.

So I think I know a little bit about air pollution and monitoring the air. I was in charge of picking out the proper respirators for my people and performing mask and respirator fit testing.

BTW. Virus may hitch rides on aerosols and other small particulates floating in the air. But the density of those virus particles is pretty low. Probably not enough to infect a health person. But a big spit particle full of viruses landing in your mouth can infect you with a higher virus load.

[Moveon]

https://bgr.com/2020/12/01/coronavir...-inflammation/

Please listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci and wear a mask and keep your distance from others to stop the spread of the virus. Wash your hands often. Wear the best type of mask you can find and afford. N95 are the best but are in short supply and ever since last March have been reserved for health care workers that work directly with Covid-19 patients.

Our hospitals are getting overwhelmed again. We need to do everything we can to stop the spread of this **** virus. Hospitals in our area are nearing full capacity. If you don't have Covid-19 and need to go to the hospital and end up on the ICU unit in critical care you may not get a bed and end up in the hallway on a gurney where the paramedics had to leave you. Even healthy young athletics who get the virus don't get over it completely. They get heart damage and something that the virus can pass through the brain-blood barrier and affect the brain. These people are called "Long Haulers" and they don't know how long the effects can last. Some say that it could take 10 years off your life. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle and is something you don't want to get. There are studies of young male football players around the college football game that have had MRI's showing that they have heart disease after recovering from the Covid-19.

Now Joe Biden is President-Elect and the Viris is still here. It's been 4 weeks since the election and the virus is worse now than it was last spring. As predicted by the real health experts the virus is not going away anytime soon. We do have some new treatments that if done early help survival rates. But we don't know the real long term effects of this virus for those that don't die. And the vaccine is around the corner but distribution is going to be hard as there are 326 million Americans that need to be vaccinated two times and possibly every year. And the flu is still going to hit us hard this year too.

So please wear a mask to stop your coughs, sneezes, and other emissions from spreading far from your mouth and nose.

The larger the droplet the more gravity affects it and the large droplets tend to fall out of the air after 6 ft. The viral load in these larger drops of spit can be much greater than the smaller droplets. Particles larger than 10 microns are pulled down faster by gravity than smaller sized particles in the 1 micron and lower range. Viruses is about 0.1 microns in size but they hitch a ride on water droplets from our nose and mouth emissions. These droplets or spit particles tend to be larger than 10 microns.

So keep your distance and if everyone wears a mask we can greatly reduce the amount of spread.

Now smaller droplets of aerosols (<1 micron) can hang around in the air for a few hours. Still air indoors is where this happens.

Wearing a three-layer tight cotton woven mask (high thread count) can help reduce the spread of most of these aerosols. Now it can't stop them all but it can stop up to 90% of them.

The viral load is greater in the larger droplets of spit so wearing a mask can reduce these large droplets from getting very far before infecting someone else.

But, remember that the smaller droplets or Aerosols can escape a mask if the mask is not fitted properly. Remember that these smaller < 1-micron aerosols have smaller amounts of virus in them.

So if you all wear a mask and keep your distance and wash your hands then we can all be safer.

I'm not saying that there won't be cases but the number of cases and the spread can be slowed down and flatten the curve. Right now the curve is steep and pointing straight up.

Remember that one infected person can spread the virus to 50 others in a tight room with still air and inadequate ventilation. This has been documented in some cases.

And low humidity in the winter months can dry out the sinuses. Dry sinuses can allow the nose and throat tissue to dry out and crack which allows the virus better entry into the body. Normally mucus lining the throat and nose protects us from viruses and bacteria. But when the nose and mouth dry out due to lower humidity levels in the air we become more susceptible to airborne diseases. So the infection rates go up in the wintertime when more people gather together inside in dry still air. This is when the virus spread best.

People in close contact with each other for prolonged periods of time are more likely to spread the virus when only one person is infected in the room. This is why the number of infections continues to rise this November and December.

Yesterday here in Vanderburgh County, IN we had 266 new cases of Covid-19. This is a new record. In the last two weeks, the number of people getting newly infected each day has risen. We are breaking records each new day.

There are masks that are better than others. I have a full-face respirator with HEPA filters that filter out particles down to 0.3 microns in size with 95% efficiency. I worked in the hazardous waste control industry. I was a project manager and supervised the projects that I designed. I was certified by the State Environmental Management Agency. I've worked in the Air Pollution Field for 30 years before I retired to go fishing and camping more. I've worked at the Environmental Protection Agency as an air pollution control manager. I worked in the private industry as a quality control manager. I've worked for one of the largest analytical laboratories in the world. Core Laboratory, Inc out of Huston Texax with labs from coast to coast in the USA and other labs across the globe. I supervised 5 chemists and a few high school graduates who worked out in the field collecting samples for our lab. I started the microbiology water testing for drinking water which was hard to get certified by the State Board of Health. I started the labs asbestos sampling and analysis laboratory. I have done projects for some of the largest companies in the area. I did air sampling for asbestos and ran clearance sampling and analysis for million-dollar projects. Some of my clients were ALCOA, General Electric. EVSC. Mead Johnson, General Foods, and Most every electric power plant within 50 miles in both IN, and KY. I did school projects in IL too. AHERA drove most of the work as all the grammar and high schools were required by law to come up with Asbestos Control Plans for all the schools. I've done sampling and analysis for Vincennes University when they had an outbreak of Legionnaires disease. I've sampled for Radioactivity (Radon Gas)in Court Houses in the area. All this was hush hush. The reports we produced went to our clients, not the Government when I was a consultant. When I worked for the EPA I reported the monitoring results back to the USEPA on a monthly basis. When the Chinese exploded an atomic bomb in China I was part of an air monitoring network though out the USA who tested the air for weeks looking for radioactive fallout dust. So when someone like TimE talks out his ass about masks I just laugh at his stupidity.

BTW. I'm a microscopist and have been using the Polarized Light Microscope for over 30 years. I went to school at the University of Alabama Birmingham to learn to analyze bulk building samples for asbestos content. I went to Texas A&M University at College Station, TX to learn to analyze for Airborne asbestos fibers. Earlier in my career at the EPA, I went to the USEPA Air Sampling and Analysis school to learn to sample the air for chemical air pollution. Before all that I went to Purdue University and graduated with honors. I was in Pre-Veterinary Medicine and then graduated with a degree in Environmental Science. I learned to sample and analyze water and air. I took microbiology, zoology, biology, ecology, oceanography, evolution, ecology, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, physic, math, and a few more classes. Too many to mention. Over 120 hrs. of studies. Genetics was another important one. Even in HS I was in the advanced biology classes and help mentor other lower-class students when I was a Jr and Sr.

So I think I know a little bit about air pollution and monitoring the air. I was in charge of picking out the proper respirators for my people and performing mask and respirator fit testing.

BTW. The virus may hitch rides on aerosols and other small particulates floating in the air. But the density of those virus particles is pretty low. Probably not enough to infect a healthy person. But a big spit particle full of viruses landing in your mouth can infect you with a higher virus load.

We need to listen to Dr. Fauci


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