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Originally Posted by Bearcat
If there was 100% chance or even 50% chance that someone's breath could pass it on to you, then sure.
But, maybe it's 5% (just throwing an number out there), so coming in close contact with one person probably wouldn't matter, but being crammed inside public transportation with another few thousand people would increase your odds (perhaps not a crazy amount given the number of people who have it vs. those who don't, but still).
If I had to completely guess, I'd think there would be a higher chance of catching it than surface and then face contact, but still relatively low in the grand scheme of things on a per-contact basis.
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Then you would be wrong. 80%+ of new infections are from air droplets.
I can't find the link anymore with the plethora of Coronavirus crap out there. But I read that directly from the CDC site at one time.
I'm not saying you are one of them, but there is a certain cohort of individuals who think that if you just cover your mouth and wash your hands that you won't pass along the virus. Touching a door knob or a surface is actually a rare way you catch the virus.