Comments on: Study: Almost impossible to contract COVID-19 on an airplane https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/ Sat, 17 Oct 2020 03:23:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: F16 Guy https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1091059 Sat, 17 Oct 2020 03:23:52 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1091059 Cotour

Excellent link. Thanks

]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1091014 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:59:41 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1091014 @Slatey Cleavage
I gave an easily accessible example of how extremely numerous virus are. But if you and Tom here want to be wrong by a factor of a hundred per sneeze, and think that 4,000 virus is relevant to “model”, then you are welcome to remain wrong and keep on failing! (It’s just that reality doesn’t like people who are wrong and fail and tends to get rid of them in its selection process).

]]> By: Cotour https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1091004 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:06:50 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1091004 I thought this was interesting:

https://youtu.be/4G0o0qYLQhs

]]> By: Slatey Cleavage https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1090995 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:08:05 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1090995 Wikipedia is biased.. It never should be used as a reference. Means nothing.

https://onlinelearningtips.com/2018/12/why-you-cannot-use-wikipedia-as-an-academic-source/

]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1090975 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:23:11 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1090975 Just look at Wikipedia to get a sense of the numbers involved:
“When an infected person sneezes or coughs more than half a million virus particles can be spread to those close by.”
Half a million in one sneeze is more than a thousand times the virus particles that model seems to assume per hour. That is for someone who shows symptoms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza

The number of virus particles in the biosphere is estimated to be 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s why the word virus doesn’t have a plural form, like air, it is everywhere. (“virii” is false Latin).

This is a technical paper, but they estimate that hundreds of millions of virus fall from the sky on each square meter of Earth EVERY DAY! That’s still less than 10^20 globally per year, so only one in a trillion of all virus in the biosphere. 4,000 virus is nothing.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-017-0042-4

]]> By: Tom https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1090957 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:33:13 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1090957 “…4,000 virus per hour? Where do they get that miniscule number from? During the first week with flu symptoms, one produces more like 500,000,000 virus per hour…”

So says “LocalFluff” without any sourcing or evidence that others can reference and use to make an informed decision.

LocalFluff??!! Really?

]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1090950 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 03:01:41 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1090950 4,000 virus per hour? Where do they get that miniscule number from? During the first week with flu symptoms, one produces more like 500,000,000 virus per hour.

]]> By: John https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1090944 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:24:59 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1090944 What!? No way.

Aircraft are disgusting petri dishes filled with cooties, and that was before the panicdemic. Flight attendants must have better immune systems than school teachers.

Can’t help but notice United and Boeing in the acknowledgements. It would be interesting to see if a peer review could tear the study apart.

But, at least the methods, equipment, and data are right there. Unlike the “science is settled” crowd.

]]> By: Phill O https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-almost-impossible-to-contract-covid-19-on-an-airplane/#comment-1090938 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:45:20 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=69985#comment-1090938 Great. However, we have never been on these planes.

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