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The virus is an airborne threat
May 10th, 2021 at 9:04am
 
The virus is an airborne threat, the C.D.C. acknowledges.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/health/coronavirus-airborne-threat.html

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Federal health officials on Friday updated public guidance about how the coronavirus spreads, emphasizing that transmission occurs by inhaling very fine respiratory droplets and aerosolized particles, as well as through contact with sprayed droplets or touching contaminated hands to one’s mouth, nose or eyes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now states explicitly — in large, bold lettering — that airborne virus can be inhaled even when one is more than six feet away from an infected individual. The new language, posted online, is a change from the agency’s previous position that most infections were acquired through “close contact, not airborne transmission.”


More than 6 feet (1.83 meters)? Better increase that 1.5 meters social distancing "rule" we have here in Australia (which nearly everyone ignores anyway).

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As the pandemic unfolded last year, infectious disease experts warned for months that both the C.D.C. and the World Health Organization were overlooking research that strongly suggested the coronavirus traveled aloft in small, airborne particles.


Wonder what took them so long to admit what should have been obvious 12 months ago at the start of the pandemic... Covid spreads exactly the same way the flu does every year?

As I've said before - perhaps its because if admissions are made by governments and their health agencies that Covid spreads just like the flu does then people might start demanding something be done about stopping or reducing the spread of the flu which kills hundreds of thousands worldwide each year and would cost governments, airlines and other businesses lots of $$$$ to deal with it like they're having to do with Covid.

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Reply #1 - May 10th, 2021 at 9:20am
 
Yep definitely airborne

Chances of keeping it out of fortress Australia forever
Zero
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Reply #2 - May 10th, 2021 at 9:22am
 
And before our resident 'Noble Knownothing' who believes everyone is "screaming for the Covid vaccine" comes along and says something like "we have a vaccine for Covid now and everyone needs to have it so the young ones can flourish", keep in mind that we have vaccines for the flu yet hundreds of thousands still die from the flu every year.

A lot of those deaths probably could have been avoided if Covid style precautions and restrictions had been in place for years (which, as I said, would cost airlines and governments, etc. big $$$ and that's obviously a big 'no no' for them).
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Reply #3 - May 10th, 2021 at 9:22am
 
New advice on COVID spread puts air quality in the spotlight


https://www.smh.com.au/national/new-advice-on-covid-spread-puts-air-quality-in-t...

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Changing World Health Organisation advice on the airborne transmission risk of COVID-19 has sparked calls for Australian officials to update national guidelines on air quality.

The WHO and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have updated their guidance to emphasise the threat of small airborne virus particles that linger in the air and can travel in poorly ventilated spaces.


Wonder if the lightbulb has finally lit up with our Federal and State governments and they've now figured out why we keep getting hotel quarantine breaches?

Something that should have been obvious for ages.

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“It’s not to say that we need to get rid of all the other [precautions] we have in place. It’s just recognising that COVID transmits from person to person in a number of ways,” Ms Cole said.

“So you could be washing your hands until the cows come home and you could still get COVID-19, because you’ve shared contaminated air.”

A recent outbreak in Perth that sparked a snap lockdown and was the catalyst for the India flight ban is suspected to have been caused by the virus travelling between guests’ rooms in a hotel with ventilation so poor it was recommended to be taken out of the quarantine program.

Investigations into leaks in Victoria have revealed that a returned traveller staying in the Park Royal Hotel in Melbourne this year probably got the virus when their door opened at the same time as the door of a room opposite where five people were COVID-19 positive.


Again... time for some proper quarantine facilities before we have a major outbreak. The clock is (still) ticking...
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Reply #4 - May 10th, 2021 at 9:57am
 
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:20am:
Yep definitely airborne

Chances of keeping it out of fortress Australia forever
Zero




Which is why we quarantine and isolate to minimise the spread as much as wqe can and buy ourselves time til the immunisation program is done.


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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #5 - May 10th, 2021 at 10:00am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:57am:
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:20am:
Yep definitely airborne

Chances of keeping it out of fortress Australia forever
Zero




Which is why we quarantine and isolate to minimise the spread as much as wqe can and buy ourselves time til the immunisation program is done.





Really

Well why don't you tell that to all the people who don't want to be vaccinated
The people who think we can maintain fortress Australia forever

Carl is calling for the closure of all airports in perpetuity
They do nothing but bring in disease
Care to comment
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Reply #6 - May 10th, 2021 at 10:07am
 
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 10:00am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:57am:
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:20am:
Yep definitely airborne

Chances of keeping it out of fortress Australia forever
Zero




Which is why we quarantine and isolate to minimise the spread as much as wqe can and buy ourselves time til the immunisation program is done.





Really

Well why don't you tell that to all the people who don't want to be vaccinated
The people who think we can maintain fortress Australia forever

Carl is calling for the closure of all airports in perpetuity
They do nothing but bring in disease
Care to comment


What Carl stated is pretty stupid, its just ironic you pointing that out, consider the poo you dribble with.
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Reply #7 - May 10th, 2021 at 10:41am
 
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 10:00am:
Carl is calling for the closure of all airports in perpetuity
They do nothing but bring in disease
Care to comment


Yes, I would care to comment.

Where exactly did I call for "the closure of all airports in perpetuity
They do nothing but bring in disease"?

But, they do bring in disease (even though I didn't even say that) which is proved by the spread of the flu worldwide every year (and now Covid in the past 12 months) - and, I'm predicting the flu will be almost a non event in Australia again this year, just like last year due to the restrictions put into place regarding Covid.

What I am saying is that more effort is now needed to stop the spread of the flu every year which would probably prevent many of the hundreds of thousands of deaths annually.

"Oh, its just the flu, can't do anything about that, sorry" is something that has probably been said for years. When has anyone, anywhere in the world ever been stopped from travelling interstate and overseas because they have the flu?

Well, from what we've seen in Australia with Covid (and the flu) during the past 12 months, something can be done about it. But, of course, it involves spending money.
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Reply #8 - May 10th, 2021 at 10:43am
 
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 10:00am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:57am:
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:20am:
Yep definitely airborne

Chances of keeping it out of fortress Australia forever
Zero




Which is why we quarantine and isolate to minimise the spread as much as wqe can and buy ourselves time til the immunisation program is done.





Really

Well why don't you tell that to all the people who don't want to be vaccinated
The people who think we can maintain fortress Australia forever

Carl is calling for the closure of all airports in perpetuity
They do nothing but bring in disease
Care to comment
until recently you were advocating that we let the virus run rampant to somehow gain "herd immunity",  when confronted with facts which showed the stupidity of that action you defended your position to the point of complete idiocy. You have been consistently 100 percent wrong on every single thing you have posted about the virus.
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Reply #9 - May 10th, 2021 at 10:53am
 
Incorrect

My whole point from day 1
Is that overreaction to covert
Is going to result in the ignoring of other far more deadly diseases such as heart disease diabetes cancer and mental health
And I would still feel that to be the case

My support for the vaccine is based solely on the fact
That the end to coronavirus hysteria
Can now only be achieved by vaccinating everyone
As quickly as possible
Because until that occurs
We will continue to have bedwetting politicians
Plunging society into a never ending cycle of destructive lockdowns

So from a pragmatic point of view
Why the hell people would not get vaccinated
Would seem to me a reflection
Of the fact that they quite enjoy
Staying at home on the couch watching Netflix and having Scott Morrison male them a cheque

You may think that is the correct way to run a country
And that we can dig up some iron ore and sell it to China and all live high on the hog
If you think that you're a bigger braindead numpty than I thought
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Reply #10 - May 10th, 2021 at 11:10am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:57am:
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 9:20am:
Yep definitely airborne

Chances of keeping it out of fortress Australia forever
Zero




Which is why we quarantine and isolate to minimise the spread as much as we can and buy ourselves time til the immunisation program is done.





Exactly.

Moreover, nobody has ever said that we can keep the virus out of Australia forever - that's an argument aqua is having with himself.

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Reply #11 - May 11th, 2021 at 6:31pm
 
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 10:53am:
Incorrect

My whole point from day 1
Is that overreaction to covert
Is going to result in the ignoring of other far more deadly diseases such as heart disease diabetes cancer and mental health
And I would still feel that to be the case

My support for the vaccine is based solely on the fact
That the end to coronavirus hysteria
Can now only be achieved by vaccinating everyone
As quickly as possible
Because until that occurs
We will continue to have bedwetting politicians
Plunging society into a never ending cycle of destructive lockdowns

So from a pragmatic point of view
Why the hell people would not get vaccinated
Would seem to me a reflection
Of the fact that they quite enjoy
Staying at home on the couch watching Netflix and having Scott Morrison male them a cheque

You may think that is the correct way to run a country
And that we can dig up some iron ore and sell it to China and all live high on the hog
If you think that you're a bigger braindead numpty than I thought


The Superior Man, he who walks the "narrow path to success", would never stoop to such vaccines, produced on mass for the lazy Beta chodes, the Ikea of genetic engineering.

Viruses have been going since year zero, your Alpha thinks, a mere case of the sniffles to one such as he. Think Rhodes in Africa, Cook in the Pacific, Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Can you imagine them queuing up for a vaccine?

Never! The Superior Man trusts his genetics. He knows he is a superior breed. Millenia of human evolution has been invested in those genes, not one cell wasted. Your Superior Man is no savage, oh no. There is no room for ineptitude in his DNA. Godspeed, genes, he thinks, do your superior work. Fight this virus and I shall reward you with superior offspring.

By Jove, he says, I shall inseminate into a hot babe filly as every Alpha should, and she shall breed me up some top-shelf human specimens. Every "noble righty" has made such a pledge, from Alexander the Great to the big fella.

Think: the noble Donald, Rudy, Roger Stone, the great Mike Flynn. All fought the virus, all overcame. Did they ever cower? Never! Think what such genes might be capable of - not so much men, but Gods.

Eat lots of raw vegetables, pray, take your hydroxychloraquine, and remember, only a butthurt beta softcock plays identity politics with science. The big fella would never submit his superior genes to a vaccine, and if he did, he would never virtue-signal the chodes about it.

You?

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Reply #12 - May 11th, 2021 at 6:40pm
 
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 10:53am:

You may think that is the correct way to run a country
And that we can dig up some iron ore and sell it to China and all live high on the hog
Thats actually precisely what this country is doing and that is not going to change regardless of the corona virus.  What sort of idiot would advocate cutting our main export earner in a global crisis?
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Reply #13 - May 11th, 2021 at 7:26pm
 
rhino wrote on May 11th, 2021 at 6:40pm:
aquascoot wrote on May 10th, 2021 at 10:53am:

You may think that is the correct way to run a country
And that we can dig up some iron ore and sell it to China and all live high on the hog
Thats actually precisely what this country is doing and that is not going to change regardless of the corona virus.  What sort of idiot would advocate cutting our main export earner in a global crisis?


Someone who dropped out of school in year 10 and now shovels horseshit for a living?   Undecided
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