Hi, Lee Lofaso!
I read your message from 27.04.2020 22:52

 ak>>>> Big cough drops drop down quickly. In the air there are only
 ak>>>> micro disperse drops (similar to vapour) and medicine masks are
 ak>>>> useless against them.

 LL>>> The novel coronavirus is not thought to be airborne (aerosol).
 LL>>> But nothing is certain. Wearing a cloth mask is thought to offer
 LL>>> some limited protection to those who are not sick, if those who
 LL>>> are sick are wearing such a mask. The idea being that any large
 LL>>> droplets would be caught by those wearing a mask, rather than
 LL>>> infecting those who are not.

 LL>>> Problem is nobody knows who is and is not sick. In which case
 LL>>> everybody (except for Trump) should wear a mask. Or so we have
 LL>>> been told here in the USA.

 ak>> A funny story was shown in the news. In some hospital the medics
 ak>> keep a habit to applaud to the patient when he had recovered from
 ak>> covid19 and he is leaving the hospital. But all the medics and
 ak>> that recovered patient were wearing masks during that applause. It
 ak>> shows well how much we can believe them. ;=)

 LL> There is so much uncertainty about this virus that nobody seems to
 LL> know what they are talking about.

In many countries there is a tradition -- after having built a bridge
they test it with loaded trucks, and the chief bridge designer stands
under the bridge at that moment. ;-) So if the medics are sure that they
have cured the patient they could demonstrate it by speaking with the
patient without masks. But they are not sure probably.

 ak>> PS: But anyway it is well known that medical masks save only from
 ak>> snotty and coughing people... if they wear them.

 LL> That is what the CDC and health professionals have been telling
 LL> everybody. But since so few in this country have been tested, the
 LL> recommendation is for everybody to wear a mask in public. Better to
 LL> be safe than sorry approach.

 LL> So what do politicians do? Open the beaches and let everybody play
 LL> outside. Even with a stay at home lockdown order in place.

They have reason not to believe that covid19 is so dangerous.

 LL> Now somebody tell me that makes sense.

The tests have showed that it is very likely more than 50% of population
have already recovered from covid19 and have antibodies in their blood.
 It means that the epidemic has been going on in its own, hidden way and
pay little attention on the official statistics that tells us about
people who "became ill with covid19" every day.

So, when, after the epidemic, we count the final number of all people
with covid19 anitibodies we will realize that the mortality from this
virus is very low, as it was during a usual seasonal epidemic.

This outrages status of the epidemic (psychosis) was created my
journalist, mass media, social networks. I told it in some echo.

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Look here:
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/united-states-influenza-pneumonia

The death toll from influenza and pneumonia in 2017 is 80.5 thousand
people per season. I.e. 220 people per day. But every epidemic as we
know from history lasts... let it be 3 months. It means that during the
days of the epidemic the death toll is 4 times higher than average death
toll! I.E around 900 person per day (some days more, some day less).

Now suppose the American media, in 2017 cold season, would have
announced that the US has an awful epidemic, and every day the country
is going to lose 900 people per day during three months!!! (again - some
days more some days less). Will it be hysteria and panic? No doubt about
that.
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Bye, Lee!
Alexander Koryagin
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