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I don’t know the answer to that. Thinking logically, I suspect it would be difficult to so perfectly align two fabrics such that the weave orientations could allow a faster flow, so thinking that way, I imagine it wouldn’t make much difference..... but honestly unless some-one tested the...

WOW..... that word “therefore” in the conclusion carries a lot of weight. How about instead trying to explain their condition, and in that way reducing their psychological distress?

Thinking of objective measures: When I’m starting to struggle I notice my coordination becomes clunky, and my reaction times increase. Perhaps these features might be measureable? Eg Coordination affects my ability to negotiate obstacles when walking - at home we have a step down followed by...

I’m not sure it was ever a “designed” questionnaire!! The questionnaire seems like something written late one night because it was going to be needed first thing next morning. Then once it had been used and achieved the desired results, so it was used again and again. Each time it performed...

Excellent! :)

As it looks like face coverings - cloth masks - will be used in the future, so I’ll bump this thread again. This meme however seemed to me to be VERY pertinent, and because it is delivered with humour, I imagine it will also help folk to get their head around mask use. Enjoy!!!

Yes - and especially if there are objective measures explored that could help quantify those symptom reactions to activity. I find it very hard to explain the smaller symptom indicators, that I KNOW from experience can lead to greater symptom exacerbations. On their own these small symptoms...

LOL... wouldn’t be the first time. It is always worth talking ideas through and working out which of the many ideas might fit best with what we know. However, I did think further on the idea of a doubling time for the virus being important, and so I realised that the first cycles of doubling...

So if my understanding is correct, it goes like this. 1 virus particle will have a doubling time, before it becomes 2 particles. Then another doubling time elapses before there are 4 particles. Potentially this will carry on like this: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048 etc...

A friend of a friend shared this on Facebook. I thought it a good read about the relative risks of different types of transmission. Basically it explains how increasing time in an area with airborne viral particles increases the risk of reaching infection threshold. Makes sense. It ends...

Well said that man!

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Ah well, the thinking amused me for a moment. Thanks for taking the time to explain @Jonathan Edwards - any immunology modules I took at Uni were a long time ago. :P

I wonder.... if severity is all to do with the amount of viral inoculation received, then could many of us have had tiny inoculations of viral particles that subsequently help our resistance to the virus without us ever developing COVID-19? I’m not talking about the type of immunity gained...

I agree it is better that the affected individual wears the mask, but this should apply to everyone meeting others because we have no way of knowing whether or not we are actually infected. However as an individual I cannot control what the people I might meet do (not that I’m meeting anyone...

Cloth masks are still better for the wearer than no mask. Cloth masks work best when worn by the infected individual. That was the point of the graphic I shared. N95 masks are different. Their purpose is to protect the wearer. However it seems because of the valve the N95 will not protect...

Looks like the home straight now :)

I think this was aimed at cloth masks. Presumably the valves are for exhaled air which should mean any airborne droplets are unable to enter the mask against the flow??

Saw this over on Facebook

This seems very sensible. However, the word “mask” should not, in English at least, mean anything other than something that covers the face. Think of Halloween masks, and the old masked balls! Yet I can also see the logic of dropping the word mask (in reference to what the general public...