Josh Clark

They call it sheets of fluids.

And, you know, you've got these big –

big hunks of mucus and saliva that just sort of come out together and then break apart little by little until you get to the fine mist that sort of can hang in the air.

Yeah, it starts as a clump and then turns into ropey filaments and then into increasingly smaller particles.

And those really small particles, the aerosolized stuff.

That's the scary stuff.

I saw a Bristol study that said, and this wasn't necessarily coronavirus, but that contagious germs can stay in the air, suspended in the air for weeks possibly.

Yeah.

That would have to be a very hardy, contagious virus or bacteria.

Yeah, with like no airflow.

Right.

Yeah, to just sit there.

But the 27 feet, which is kind of common knowledge these days in the era of coronavirus, that your sneeze can project those particles up to like 27 feet.

there's little pockets of gas and turbulence that are in a room, even a room that seems still, but certainly one that has like the AC on or air flowing through it.

And those little particles can hitch rides on those pockets and travel, I saw, 200 times further than you expel them with just your sneeze.

Yeah.

So you know what prevents that?

Covering yourself, your mouth and your nose when you sneeze and or wearing a mask.

Yeah, I mean, they teach, I mean, this has nothing to do with coronavirus, but it's especially important.

But they teach little kids from the moment they can even understand things in preschool to always sneeze into your elbow and cough into your elbow because that's something that kids can, you know, you can't always get to a tissue, which is what they say is sort of the best thing to do.