Last week I was shopping, and it was very windy in the parking lot. I could feel the air hitting my eyes even with my glasses on. The thought occurred to me that if an infected person not wearing a mask coughs or sneezes, I'm going to get a viral load through my eyes. I wonder when the experts are going to recommend eye protection in addition to masks. I just got a face shield to wear in addition to a mask, but haven't used it yet as it has been raining and I haven't gone shopping.
Hello; Advice from the "experts" (I will qualify this a bit later) seems to ignore basic "facts" from time to time. A classic is the advice early on about how we did not need to wear a mask at all, then the same spert later tells us to wear a mask. That the lie earlier was deemed OK because medical people such as him really really needed them makes some sense, but I would rather have been told the truth. I do not need to be treated like a child.
Thing is if you feel the need for good protection you will need a full bio-hazard suit. Pretty much anything less will leave you exposed to some degree. The best masks , N95 types, can black maybe 95 % so only a 5% will pass thru. All the other masks are much less effective. There have been some articles ranking masks.
A face shield or the plexiglass barriers are bound to have limited effect, but will have some effect. My guess is the shield will stop some droplets from a sneeze, cough or shout at close range. I also guess there will be smaller and smaller grades of drops all the way down to the aerosol virus particles. My take is an infected person is shedding virus into the air by normal breathing. Also the such aerosol virus can pass thru most masks.
The smaller and aerosol stuff will hang in the air longer and will drift around things such as shields and plexiglass barriers. That said a shield and a mask have to help some. Wearing a mask and a shield is bound to help some.
Not sure why the "experts" have been avoiding much discussion about the aerosol virus. That was established some months ago but still the public messages do not address that aspect of transmission. I can see how aerosol virus you might breath in from the air will not be as concentrated (loaded) with virus as a sneeze droplet can be. By that I mean it very likely is a lot worse to be sneezed or coughed on than to breath in some aerosol.
I hear talk of more lockdowns which seems to fly in the face of new facts to a degree. My thinking is to be forced to stay inside in a building now that we know there is an aerosol aspect to the virus will increase the chance of spread by aerosol. If you are inside and someone is infected the aerosol from them ought to float around for sometime. ( I have theory on this but will only discuss in a PM.)
Back to the experts. Thing turns out to be all the doctors and medical experts are not on the same page. To me some of the more famous of these have lost creditability over time. It is a shame we are able to shop around and find an "expert" that suits our frame of mind.
