Daily Bard Digest 2024-08-18

At 08/18/24 08:46:24 in TheRightCantMeme with a score of 1 point:

You should always assume that any rapidly spreading "viral" disease that has a WHO or USCDC or EEDC warning published about it,

is capable of being transmitted by air (coughed / sneezed droplets);

is capable of being transmitted through fomites - objects transmitting disease particles by contact

has "symptom free" infections in a non-negligible percent of cases (carriers)

This is not to say that they are transmitted that way, it's to say that for the purposes of keeping yourself protected from transmission vectors, you should assume these things.

Health officials / the media / etc assumed that someone had to be coughed on, sneezed on, or gladhanded by someone infected with Covid-19 & then touched their mouth / nose / eyes.

Researchers later proved that the Covid viral particles could ride microscopic vapor particles around a room for hours.

And for every person that contracts a viral disease, it has literally trillions upon trillions of opportunities to mutate into a more infectious and/or more severe form.

And fatality rates vary between 1% and 10% — knowledge of fatality rates is hampered by poor health care infrastructure in Africa.

Bottom line:

Wear masks, avoid being indoors with people who you don't have to be indoors with, especially if they aren't wearing masks, wash and disinfect hands.