cricketcat9:

glendathegoodone:

the-exercist:

theintellectualintrovert:

goldhornsandblackwool:

Some takeaways from the research:

1. You can have and transmit Coronavirus without symptoms.

2. A person can be asymptomatic– i.e. carrying Coronavirus but never fall ill, or presymptomatic– i.e. someone who is infected with Coronavirus but has not yet started to show symptoms.

3. Average symptom onset is around 5 days, though it can be as long as 14 days.

4. !!!Carriers of Coronavirus shed viral particles MOST AGGRESSIVELY BEFORE THEY FALL ILL!!. It is not just the ‘sick’ who are contagious! In the 72-48 hours before a presymptomatic carrier falls ill they are MOST contagious, with viral shed lessening as a person becomes sicker.

5. Therefore, plenty of ‘healthy’ people may be some of the most contagious.

6. This is why the wearing of masks is being pushed again and more strongly: Not to keep you from getting Covid– but to keep you from SPREADING it.

Please, if you must go out, WEAR A MASK WEAR A MASK WEAR A MASK. THE CDC IS NOW EMPLORING ALL WHO DO GO OUT OF THEIR HOMES TO WEAR A CLOTH MASK TO REDUCE TRANSMISSION.

Yeah well…if it’s not an N95 respirator, it won’t do you any good. On the upside, I can wear a hijab and niqab and my coworkers won’t be weirded out.

Right now, homemade masks can be a HUGE step in protecting one another in public. A face mask does not need to be medical grade in order to be effective, especially if the alternative is leaving your home bare faced.

The Covid-19 virus is 0.1 microns large. Researchers at Cambridge University tested various household materials for the effectiveness against 0.02 micron Bacteriophage MS2 particles (5 times smaller than the coronavirus).

Even just wrapping a scarf around your mouth and nose will eliminate 49% of microscopic bacterial and viral infectious material. If you make a double layered mask using a cotton blended material, the protection is significant.

Homemade masks aren’t perfect, and they still require people to observe proper PPE protocol, but this is not the time to scoff at safety precautions. Every bit makes a difference, and this is more than just a bit.

Maryland opened up a little and people are walking around without masks and are not social distancing. And yet babies and young kids are being afflicted with a deadly Kawasaki- like disease and dying. At times I hate my species. I can’t believe how selfish people are.

This again, because fucking people DON’T LISTEN