Again, Governor Cuomo Falls Victim to Falsehoods
Governor Andrew Cuomo who by now we've come to see has trouble putting two and two together, again tries to tell the public (Oh poor, poor, misguided NY public) that population density at the meat packing plants is the reason for the high infectivity here.
You couldn't be more wrong, Gov. The workers are wearing masks and they are not that on top of each other because, for God's sake, they are wielding the sharpest knives around. Also, from what I've seen, the workers are in an assembly line. Wherever an infected worker is, he can only spread to the person immediately upstream or downstream of him/her. He can't infect the whole fucking line--if the Governor is right and we put our trust solely on population density. However, if I'm right and cold temperatures are the real reason for the spread, then you can expect that one worker ANYWHERE could infect the entire plant. This theory can be proven by having Tyson and the others report the physical location of all workers that came down with the virus (assuming they kept this data). If those who got infected were more than 6 feet apart, it proves my theory that it's not fucking density so much as an environment that enables the virion to float for extended periods of time.
Now, I guess is a good time as any to have more of my pearls falling on deaf porcine ears. I predict that we--barring the best contact tracing in the world which we don't have just yet--will discover that the air conditioned venues and shops of NYC will continue the spread of coronavirus by virtue of the higher air density that keeps the virus afloat to its next victim. Even hospitals may share blame if they are keeping the temperature down for the comfort of the staff. The PPE's get burdensome and the staff has to run around and lift heavily--I don't blame them but someone should address more the density of AIR and less the density of people in the epidemiology of this contagion.
Here are some numbers obtained from a previously referenced website (virus' density: 1.225):
Relative Humidity/ Temperature ⁰F/ density in Kg/m³
0% / 70/ 1.1999
0% / 85/ 1.1669
50% / 85/ 1.1579
100%/ 85/ 1.1489
As you can see, the top figures come very close to coronavirus density. Here the virus is only 2% denser than air. Any colder and the virus will float happily like it's doing at the meat packing plants. I don't know the temperature of the meat packers but if we assume it's around 50 degrees F., that air density would be 1.24697 and that is a whopping 17.6% greater air than virus density and I'll put my money on greater infectivity due to floating.
You couldn't be more wrong, Gov. The workers are wearing masks and they are not that on top of each other because, for God's sake, they are wielding the sharpest knives around. Also, from what I've seen, the workers are in an assembly line. Wherever an infected worker is, he can only spread to the person immediately upstream or downstream of him/her. He can't infect the whole fucking line--if the Governor is right and we put our trust solely on population density. However, if I'm right and cold temperatures are the real reason for the spread, then you can expect that one worker ANYWHERE could infect the entire plant. This theory can be proven by having Tyson and the others report the physical location of all workers that came down with the virus (assuming they kept this data). If those who got infected were more than 6 feet apart, it proves my theory that it's not fucking density so much as an environment that enables the virion to float for extended periods of time.
Now, I guess is a good time as any to have more of my pearls falling on deaf porcine ears. I predict that we--barring the best contact tracing in the world which we don't have just yet--will discover that the air conditioned venues and shops of NYC will continue the spread of coronavirus by virtue of the higher air density that keeps the virus afloat to its next victim. Even hospitals may share blame if they are keeping the temperature down for the comfort of the staff. The PPE's get burdensome and the staff has to run around and lift heavily--I don't blame them but someone should address more the density of AIR and less the density of people in the epidemiology of this contagion.
Here are some numbers obtained from a previously referenced website (virus' density: 1.225):
Relative Humidity/ Temperature ⁰F/ density in Kg/m³
0% / 70/ 1.1999
0% / 85/ 1.1669
50% / 85/ 1.1579
100%/ 85/ 1.1489
As you can see, the top figures come very close to coronavirus density. Here the virus is only 2% denser than air. Any colder and the virus will float happily like it's doing at the meat packing plants. I don't know the temperature of the meat packers but if we assume it's around 50 degrees F., that air density would be 1.24697 and that is a whopping 17.6% greater air than virus density and I'll put my money on greater infectivity due to floating.
Btw, ever wonder why the coronavirus has so many spikes sticking out of its bilipid membrane? Sure, the more sites to bind with the ACE-2 receptor; but there's an added benefit: those spikes increase the volume of the virus thereby decreasing it's density and allowing it to float in air longer.
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