Have you already heard, right? The type of virus is not transmitted in large drops of tens of centimeters, but mainly microscopic drops of tens of meters like measles or tuberculosis, and that you can take off masks, because it doesn't matter useless. Now I’ll explain what I don’t like about this bike.
Firstly, I don't like the damaged phone itself. This is how it gets to our Russian-speaking reader: a popular Russian-speaking doctor-uncle says that a popular Russian-language resource translated something from the English magazine Lancet, in which someone something published.
We look into the Lancet. There is a commentary from a group of different authors who are outraged by an unpublished review (!) That someone else wrote somewhere else on the instructions of the World Health Organization.
Got it? That is, somewhere a review is being prepared, in which, at the request of the WHO, they analyze the available scientific data and say that covid can rather NOT be transmitted through the air. This review has not yet been published.
Now please read carefully and don't lose track. This review, NOT officially published, was NOT liked by a group of people who reported it in The Lancet and gave their 10 cons. As a result, that official review has not even been published yet, and this comment by a group of indignant authors from the Lancet has already gone to the masses as the ultimate truth.
Now let me tell you only one moment of those ten points that were published by the indignant authors of the commentary in the Lancet.
The item titled "third"
I'll take the point called "third", which the recently offended Russian-language resource translated in its own way (Everyone knows which independent Russian-language resource was recently offended? Yes, this is it).
So the Russian-speaking guys translated the third paragraph as follows: many people contract covid from asymptomatic carriers who do not sneeze or cough, which means they release a mysterious aerosol.
It sounded strange to me. Therefore, for the simplicity of my heart, I climbed into the English-speaking Lancet. There, under the third paragraph, foreigners write about the same, but they also add that people, when talking, spit out a few large drops and many small drops.
Here I agree that even without snot and a strong cough, you can infect someone. And with the conversation, infectious drops really fly out. Only I still know that healthy people still cough 15 times during the day, and about the same number of times they clear their throat from perspiration. I even have about it separate article there is.
Conversation
Now about the conversation. Who suddenly decided that ordinary conversation gives off more aerosol than coughing?
And again I was not too lazy and searched the Lancet links for a Chinese study in which the Chinese compared coughing, talking and other drops.
The Chinese there decided that colds between us are transmitted not in large, but in small drops. Like we were wrong about the size of the drops before.
The most interesting thing is that the Chinese studied close contact. That is, within 2 meters. There was no question of spreading the infection over long distances. Again past the checkout.
Nowhere there, brothers, no one writes that calmly talking infectious people spread the virus over long distances.
Yes, cheerful and cheerful people can be contagious. Yes, they disperse the virus in droplets when speaking. No, no one says that these drops fly very far away and infect someone there.
Look what happens. I told you about one suspicious item out of ten. There are still nine of them left.
To talk about this one point, I needed to hear a recommendation from an authoritative doctor-uncle to read our offended Russian-speaking journalists, who translated the comment into Lancet of a group of outraged foreigners who resented the unpublished WHO review, which had not yet been published, and themselves referred to the Chinese who wrote about friend. Looks like a broken phone, right?
In short, everything was twisted around an officially unpublished WHO review, which states that under normal conditions, covid is not transmitted by air.
Have you already heard these tales?
