General Coronavirus chit chat thread - non-travel specific

Apologies if this has been asked before, but i can't seem to find an answer anywhere... why do face shields have 'FACE SHIELD' written across the top? Are they easily confusable with another product?
 
Princess Fiona said:
And the CDC finally acknowledge airborne transmission. How Corona Virus Spreads.
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I must admit that I have not been following them of late.

Reading what is there now, would seem to be a good summary of what I would think most here in Australia would have thought to be the case for a while. Including that fomite transmission is not that common.

Did they not acknowledge airborne transmission at all prior to the 5th?


COVID-19 can sometimes be spread by airborne transmission
  • Some infections can be spread by exposure to virus in small droplets and particles that can linger in the air for minutes to hours. These viruses may be able to infect people who are further than 6 feet away from the person who is infected or after that person has left the space.
  • This kind of spread is referred to as airborne transmission and is an important way that infections like tuberculosis, measles, and chicken pox are spread.
  • There is evidence that under certain conditions, people with COVID-19 seem to have infected others who were more than 6 feet away. These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation. Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example while singing or exercising.
    • Under these circumstances, scientists believe that the amount of infectious smaller droplet and particles produced by the people with COVID-19 became concentrated enough to spread the virus to other people. The people who were infected were in the same space during the same time or shortly after the person with COVID-19 had left.
  • Available data indicate that it is much more common for the virus that causes COVID-19 to spread through close contact with a person who has COVID-19 than through airborne transmission.

HVAC

However reading what they have on ventilation and HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) it looks ok for home settings, and large facilities but does not seem to highlight that small premises (whether they be shops, hair dressers, offices) that essentially only have "household" HVAC is probably going to be inadequate in many situations due the lack of air change (ventilation).

This is the same in Australia and is often ignored. I do note that Step 2 in Vic for restaurants focusses on outside dining , with strict limits on inside dining, for this reason. But even those small limits may not be strict enough depending on the premises and I personally would not be confident that many operators will really focus on adequate ventilation.

Now outside of Vic in Australia as infections are now effectively zero it does not really matter (though it does mean those settings remain in theory vunerable), but certainly in Metro Melb in Vic I would not be visiting such premises till cases are virtually zero.
 
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lovetravellingoz said:
I must admit that I have not been following them of late.

Reading what is there now, would seem to be a good summary of what I would think most here in Australia would have thought to be the case for a while. Including that fomite transmission is not that common.

Did they not acknowledge airborne transmission at all prior to the 5th?


COVID-19 can sometimes be spread by airborne transmission
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They first mentioned it on Friday 18th September

The Washington Post

And then hastily withdrew it again as it was a “draft” three days later.
 
MEL_Traveller said:
Well... that's something i guess :) It will do to satisfy my curiosity anyway.
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I've wondered the same and asked a health care worker. The answer's that it helps correct assembly (as Hvr mentioned) as well as so it's not mistaken for anything else when it first arrives in that disassembled state - apparently there's a risk of mistaking it for the myriad other plastic doodads in a hospital.
 
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Hvr said:
Queensland is not a country. (Although, they wish they were.)
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Wasn't referring to Queensland.

But for another discussion Australian states should really split and form their own countries. Not very much in common between each of the states.
 
JohnK said:
Wasn't referring to Queensland.

But for another discussion Australian states should really split and form their own countries. Not very much in common between each of the states.
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I took a break too. But I saw a message from you, so relented and clicked to see what was up. Hope all is OK.
 
It is pretty bad and escalating - Europe/UK too.

I think it’s so embedded in the community now and a level of weariness has set in. Even my son who up to now has been extremely cautious is starting to go to restaurants. He only sits outside and wears a mask wherever possible, but many don’t. He has been in Arizona for the last month and he says mask wearing is very patchy - San Francisco was much better. I will be glad when he is back in SFO, but he fled the smoke....
 
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