Helhound

@Red :) That's awesome.

That's because everyone here is obsessed with him apparently. I'm just feeding the fangirls.

That's because everyone here is obsessed with him apparently. I'm just feeding the fangirls.

banned for 2015 memes

just don't drink pink water

Banned for mispronouncing buzzkill. 

Ngl, seems in character for her. 

Banned for assuming that I would do anything of the sort. 

Banned for a profile pic that makes no sense.

Banned for thinking ignorance is the same as having no knowledge of something that should be expected. Perhaps a lesson about bees will enlighten you.
 
 

Medical personnel will be getting their advice from their respective authorities on what PPE to use from what equipment or materials they have available. They would not, and should not, be getting their advice from linustechtips.com.
 
Medical personnel performing procedures or attending patients have a risk of encountering airborne/aerosols, and as such their Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) will (should) include a respirator when appropriate. They're in short supply when available. If you have any stock of the N95 nose&mouth type, you should considering donating them to your local hospital or clinic. Give them a call to see if they'd like them. Also ambulance/paramedics.
 
Respirators are for airborne risks. For the rest of the world, we don't need respirators.
With one exception, noted below.
 
The Transmission routes for COVID-19 are:
Direct Transmission contact person to person Droplet Transmission droplets expelled by breathing, talking, coughing and sneezing fall to ground within ~one metre, use 1.5, 2 metre or six feet to be sure, hence the various personal distance guidelines/rules in place around the world if you're taller, stay a few feet further away from people so what you expel doesn't land on them if you're shorter, stay a few feet further away from people so what people expel doesn't land on you Indirect Transmission Contact the virus from a surface. Like a Frequent Touch Surface: handrails, doorknobs, counter, payment machines, etc.. Surfaces can be contaminated from people touching it or droplets falling on it. Also, by aerosol droplets falling on a surface. Fecal Transmission Fecal Transmission has not been documented, but is suspected/assumed due to intestinal virus shedding shown to be as much as 20x to 50x that of respiratory shedding. Possibly through sweating pores. From a suspected transmission at a marathon in Italy.  
Missing from the above, is Airborne / Aerosol Transmission.
To date, for all the studies I've seen:
There have been no documentation of aerosols of SARS-CoV-2 expelled by people doing their normal activities, including coughing and sneezing. Coughing and sneezing is still suspect, as while there has been a lot of research so far, there has not been enough time for comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 research. Hence, use a little more than the one metre droplet fall range, just because. AND, cough into your sleeve/elbow. SARS-CoV-2 aerosols have NOT been detected in patient rooms, nor on the surfaces the fine droplets in aerosols would fall onto. (I.e., where coughing/sneezing patients are frequently doing so.) SARS-CoV-2 has been found on surfaces in patient rooms that are within droplet range. There was one study that managed to mechanically create a SARS-CoV-2 aerosol, which still held viable viruses when they ended the experiment three hours later. This means aerosols of SARS-CoV-2 are plausible, not that they are occurring. There is no evidence that is happening with humans, as in creating aerosols when sneezing or coughing. If they are rarely occurring, they certainly are NOT driving the pandemic, or there would be significantly higher R0 rates. Speculating: this may be contributing to the high infection rate of medical personnel (i.e., intubation), particularly when appropriate PPE is not available. That same study published times for which SARS-CoV-2 remained viable on various surfaces. The times they determined are notably shorter than those of other studies, but were promoted by the CDC and on the BBC. Earlier studies determined times out as long as six days. A SARS study documented SARS-CoV-1 staying viable on stainless steel as long as nine days. In spite of the findings from monitoring patient rooms, due to other viruses going into aerosol by coughing or sneezing, for precautionary reasons (it is still realatively early in COVID-19 knowledge) it is highly recommended to sneeze into tissue and cough into tissue or your elbow. Some reports say they have no evidence to counter the patient room monitoring results, but suspect coughing or sneezing may produce finer droplets that can range beyond the one metre, a semi-aerosol, possibly out to two or even three metres before falling to the ground or shortly dropping out of aerosol.
 
The Airborne / Aerosol exception - Diarrhea
(Not SARS-CoV-2 specific) Violent diarrhea can produce fine droplet aerosols that can disperse up to 200 metres (656 feet). Note the higher viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in the intestinal tract. In one unpublished study at one hospital in Wuchang China, aerosols with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus were found near patients' toilets. A SARS outbreak in 2014 was "airborne spread was the most likely explanation, and the SARS coronavirus could have spread over 200 meters", and was traced to a SARS patient who had diarrhea. In a home care setting for someone positive sheltering/recovering at home, it is plausible that a person with diarrhea could be creating SARS-CoV-2 aerosols.
If you are the person designated to provide care to such a person, perhaps you should be using a properly fitted N95 respirator.
Wearing a surgical style mask to prevent you from touching your mouth and nose, and serve as a reminder to not touch your face, is also a good idea. A study in a hospital setting back in the SARS days found that personnel wearing either a surgical mask or a respirator (it didn't matter which, each provided the same benefit), had an 85% reduced infection rate.
 
The CDC recommendation for Suspect/Confirmed at home includes: use a bathroom separate from others in the house where possible. (however they word it. If you're in a home care situation, you should go to the CDC site and get the current guidance...).
 

Interestingly enough, there were warnings of this, an article from 2007 warns of SARS-CoV viruses in Southern China qualifying the situation as a time bomb ;
 

Not gonna switch to a birb, but can I have a uh......uh...….uh...…...uh...…..uh...…...uh...……… Wendy's?

IF CORONA VIRUS HAD A HUMAN FORM.

Just chiming in a little bit here, as I have lurked the other threads and don't want to say anything against the rules. I live in Agana, Guam. Here, the entire island is on lockdown because some US and Australian military officials got infected. I think the issue on islands is bigger than the mainland like California because it is much more contained, but it can spread faster and mutate in an isolated environment. A good example would be to compare it to the evolutionary state of the Galapagos Islands or Madagascar. For example, Lemurs only live in Madagascar and no where else, at least naturally.

For livestreaming? Discord and Skype are pretty good options. Discord is better suited for large groups.

That's because everyone here is obsessed with him apparently. I'm just feeding the fangirls.

Make sure to join or at least check out the meme thread. It's pinned, I think.

I, am not going to try arguing with that.