Of Masks and Spreading Germs
Warning/Note: Parts of this info-graphic were prepared based on the following study :Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions.And comments from Dr. John Campbell ( whose youtube channel has been tracking covid-19 for a while):To mask or not to maskThere are still many unknowns about how covid-19 actually spreads which I cover later and this is just one study, I do believe it is interesting and helpful especially in the moment.
According to the above sources normal breathing and talking can disperse your saliva and whatever germs ( pathogens technically) it carries about 2 meters or 6 1/2 feet, which as you can see is a really big distance.
Things don’t get better once our bodies unwittingly become dispersion agents trough coughing.
Sneezing ( the atchoo type ) is particularly effective as a weapon of mass pathogen dispersal.
