It's the water droplets from people sneezing and coughing around you that the masks are supposed to stop. The virus does not migrate in air by itself.
--Doug On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone calculated the size of the virus and the size of the holes in > those face masks everyone seems to be wearing in MEX? I suspect those are > more of a psychological balm than a true prophylactic. > > -tj > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&source=embed&ll=17.14079,-45.175781&spn=114.994624,178.59375&z=3 >> >> -- >> Doug Roberts >> [email protected] >> [email protected] >> 505-455-7333 - Office >> 505-670-8195 - Cell >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ========================================== > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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