why soap works so well
2020-Mar-23, Monday 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerPerhaps the most essential knowledge during this viral pandemic is understanding how soap destroys virus and why scrubbing for at least 20 seconds is so effective.
Please, watch this video. It's less than 7 minutes of your time, but it could make a difference in your life and the lives of people around you. Understanding why it's important is good motivation for maintaining our safe behaviors.
Meanwhile, many sites are creating graphics to try visually representing the effect of physical separation to help slow the spread of infection. They range from still images to animations to simulations.
I've seen articles that describe infection taking as many as 27 days to incubate after exposure. And I've seen articles that describe viral shedding which makes people contagious to others up to 2.85 days (a reference I cannot locate now, sorry) before someone first notices their own symptoms, assuming they aren't among the 1.2% of cases who never notice any symptoms. That's a hard combination to contain.
For now, keep washing your hands. Gently encourage others to maintain distance. At least for a while. There is some discussion that high environmental temperatures and humidity will help reduce spread of airborne coronavirus, so the approaching summer in the northern hemisphere will help us.
Here's a photo of the marquee sign at the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis. I got this copy via a Slack discussion. I think the original came from Reddit or Tumblr.
Stay safe out there. And that means maintaining physical distance to protect others too. Consider it your patriotic duty (Randy Rainbow song parody) during this emergency.
Please, watch this video. It's less than 7 minutes of your time, but it could make a difference in your life and the lives of people around you. Understanding why it's important is good motivation for maintaining our safe behaviors.
Meanwhile, many sites are creating graphics to try visually representing the effect of physical separation to help slow the spread of infection. They range from still images to animations to simulations.
I've seen articles that describe infection taking as many as 27 days to incubate after exposure. And I've seen articles that describe viral shedding which makes people contagious to others up to 2.85 days (a reference I cannot locate now, sorry) before someone first notices their own symptoms, assuming they aren't among the 1.2% of cases who never notice any symptoms. That's a hard combination to contain.
For now, keep washing your hands. Gently encourage others to maintain distance. At least for a while. There is some discussion that high environmental temperatures and humidity will help reduce spread of airborne coronavirus, so the approaching summer in the northern hemisphere will help us.
Here's a photo of the marquee sign at the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis. I got this copy via a Slack discussion. I think the original came from Reddit or Tumblr.
Stay safe out there. And that means maintaining physical distance to protect others too. Consider it your patriotic duty (Randy Rainbow song parody) during this emergency.