marina and the diamonds and naruto were both born on october 10th… i knew that lana and sasuke are both cancers and are also literally the same person.. so i was like.. i wonder if lady gaga and sakura are the same sign and they were actually both born on march 28th…. what on earth
The reason we don’t wear masks universally during flu season is because influenza has an incubation period of one to four days.
This means that the period where you are infectious without knowing you are sick is very short. At most, you can pass the disease for a day and you aren’t VERY contagious until you show symptoms.
So, we can significantly slow influenza just by staying home when sick and masking up when sick if you have to go outside.
COVID-19 has an incubation period of 5 to 14 days and an extended presymptomatic infectious period. Not to mention the estimated 40% of people who never experience noticeable symptoms, which is much higher than with influenza.
You’re contagious with COVID-19 for several days before you know you have it, and even then it might just be the sniffles.
The norm in the future for cold and flu season should be masks any time you feel under the weather, just in case it’s flu or one of the flulike viruses that are worse than just a cold.
Healthcare workers are a specific case. They need that extra bit of protection because they get so much exposure.
One of the reasons mask wearing during COVID-19 is so important is that it reduces the inocolum, which is the amount of virus you are infected by. The higher that is, the more likely you are to be sick.
Exposure to one person with the flu is obviously going to cause you fewer problems than exposure to ten.
I’m hoping that a lasting effect of the pandemic involves *actually enforcing the thing* where they ask you to put a mask on if you’re coughing all over the place at the doctor’s office, instead of just having a sign saying you should have one.
