More notes on the Pandemic, slipping into September Part 4 16. September 2020

Covidology
Personal
The rate of infection is creeping up again in Toronto. The gloomy predictions are that cooler weather and the opening of school is going to trigger a new wave of everyone’s favourite virus.
The handling of the pandemic continues to be badly managed. People still do not know what they are officially supposed to do. Most people can work things out for themselves, though some people still have wrong ideas. I will at this point briefly render my understandings of how to “stay safe.”
People have become fixated on masks as the main way of preventing transmission. The growing information is that masks help a lot, but they are not the sole solution. A big problem is that they have to be well designed masks and they have to be worn right.
To help explain this, here is a really good video from my fellow Torontonian Science Sam. Listen up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhzzVpp54HA
Handwashing also helps somewhat, “social distancing” definitely helps, and even scrubbing down objects is likely useful. The Bug does not seem to stay too long on surfaces, especially rough surfaces. But the truth is that nothing short of living in an isolation chamber and going out in a space suit will totally protect you form the virus.
The dimension of covidology which does not seem to be discussed enough is ventilation; the role of air circulation. The single biggest rule, above masks and everything else, is; stay out of dead air. Especially, stay out of dead air that other people are breathing into.
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