james bond
Gold Member
- Oct 17, 2015
- 13,407
- 1,802
- 170
Good information
I suspect the virus is spread not by just coughing. Remember the choir where 45 people became infected from choir practices plus a lot of cases have no identifiable contact.
There could be a lot of good things come out this epidemic. If the social distancing and the other common sense health precautions such as hand washing, avoiding handshaking, and reduction in hand touching of the face becomes a habit with many people, it could have a dramatic impact on the flu, pneumonia, digestive infections, the common cold, etc.. and that would have dramatic impact on the cost of healthcare and worker productivity. In fact there are a number of good things that could come out all this. Maybe I should start thread about it.
Coughing and sneezing probably spreads it the furthest from an infected person. Mainly, it is spread via the mouth. I'm not going to be able to give a look of death to someone.
What's troublesome if it's like HIV and we can't just eradicate it with a vaccine. We only have drugs and it's not a sure thing like hydroxychloroquine.