I work in nursing homes. Someone brings it in and next thing you know, it's spreading through the whole building. And you can spread it before you have symptoms. It usually has to run it's course for 2 or so weeks.
Some of the early strains approach measles level of contagious. Truly wild to think about. Not so much now though. Still highly contagious but not the monster it was. Makes you kind of glad that most circulating strains now belong to the omicron lineage.
I was going to say! We just hear about it less because virtually everyone has some degree of immune response from vaccination, prior infections or both
The flu killed a friend this year. Because it went from flu, to pneumonia, to bacterial pneumonia, and then started killing off his feet and arms. I died after spending a week in the hospital. He was only 55 and in good physical health.
Anecdotally, I literally put a tape barrier around my desk, used the sanitizers frequently and wore a mask religiously. Didn’t get sick. Around May 2020, I began relaxing those protocols and I got sick immediately.
This is not how COVID spreads. COVID spreads through the air. If you want to avoid it, you need decent ventilation + a respirator (aka, Kn95 or N95 or N99, etc).
That’s kinda like saying, wear gloves for safe sex but don’t worry about a condom. Yes, you will be slightly less likely to catch something. But there’s a much better way…
No I was saying you should also maintain proper hand hygiene WHILE using proper PPE. You can wear an N95 mask all you want but if you aren’t using proper hand hygiene you can spread germs from contaminated surfaces you were in contact with.
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u/thomsenite256 11h ago
7 times is crazy