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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 3/2/2020 8:50 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 20:22:30 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/2/2020 8:02 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 18:25:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/2/2020 6:15 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/2/20 5:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

Been listening to the "experts" discuss the COVID-19 outbreak.

Some suggest that as the weather gets warmer and humidity rises,
it will die out. The experts claim that the virus can travel further
in dry, cold weather which increases the risk of spreading.

But I just saw an updated global map and Australia has 33 confirmed
cases (about half that of the USA but with a population of only
24.6 million)Â* and New Zealand has one.

Australia and New Zealand are in the latter months of their summer.
It's hot and humid.

The experts claim that the virus can travel further in dry, cold
weather which increases the risk of spreading.

You sound silly when you channel Trump.

This information did not come from Trump. It came from at two
different doctors who specialize in virus transmission.

What I found interesting was that it's not the heat or
humidity that actually affects the virus. It's the
more unlikely chance it will spread.

Reason is this:

If someone infected sneezes or coughs, the droplets will travel
further in dry, low humidity conditions. Cold weather (winter)
has low humidity conditions.

In the summer, with warmer weather the relative humidity rises
significantly. The droplets from a sneeze or cough cannot travel
as far in the air with higher relative humidity. In other words,
the air is denser in higher humidity conditions.

Even Trump couldn't dream this one up.

They always told us it just because people were cooped up together
inside in the winter. I do suspect that in direct sun, viruses don't
last as long. U/V and ozone are pretty tough stuff

Being cooped up certainly aids cross-contamination but I doubt
U/V and ozone has much effect on the droplets of a sneeze or
cough that travels a short distance from the infected to the
one about to be infected.

They don't survive on surfaces as long and that is a significant
vector. People touch the infected hand rail or whatever, then they
touch their face or eat something without washing their hands.

True.

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