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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And even that is WAY down from where they were a week ago. People were saying stainless and plastics for a week or longer.
Additionally, there's a big distinction between 'detectable' and 'viable'. From what I've read, the viability of the virus on any surface diminishes exponentially with every passing hour.
So while a swab and a test may show it's on there, it could be extremely weak. You touch something someone sneezed on 24 hours later and you may come in contact with the virus, but it may not 'transmit' to you. And even if it transmits to you, it may not get into your system because it's weakened. And if it gets into your system it may just get barred at the gate and wiped out before you notice as much as a tickle in your throat.
There are often silver linings in all this information. I mean lord, 3 weeks ago this was an airborne virus w/ a 2 week incubation period and a week long viability timeline with an 8% mortality rate.
Compare that with where we are now - incubation is a fraction of what we believed. Viability is almost certainly as well. It isn't airborn unless aerosolized (so far less likely to be spread by the asymptomatic). It's overall mortality rate is far lower than we thought it would be and more critically it focuses on a specific demographic that we can more thoroughly protect.
All anyone wants to talk about is how awful this thing is when every single bit of news we've seen on it for a week or more is that it isn't nearly the monster it initially surfaced as. So we don't have to scorch the ****ing earth here, fellas.
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Yes, it's in the OP. Nine days on door knobs. Here's the summary:
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news...hours-surfaces
The aerosol figure gives me pause.