How important is speech in transmitting coronavirus?

from article

Normal speech by individuals who are asymptomatic but infected with coronavirus may produce enough aerosolized particles to transmit the infection, according to aerosol scientists. Although it’s not yet known how important this is to the spread of COVID-19, it underscores the need for strict social distancing measures — and for virologists, epidemiologists and engineers who study aerosols and droplets to work together on this and other respiratory diseases.

These respiratory particles are about one micron, or one micrometer, in diameter. That’s too small to see with the naked eye, but large enough to carry viruses such as influenza or SARS-CoV-2.

Last year, Ristenpart, graduate student Sima Asadi and colleagues published a paper showing that the louder one speaks, the more particles are emitted and that some individuals are “superemitters” who give off up to 10 times as many particles as others.

As kids used to say to each other in my childhood, “Say it, don’t spray it. I want the news, not the weather.”

maybe they’re forgetting the major impact of speech — to convey semantic information between people

in such cases, speech is critically important in transmitting coronavirus

where speech leads to positive action, as in Asia, transmission has been interrupted

where it does not, as in America, transmission has been … fucking astounding

note we have not distinguished “free” or “true” speech from the alternative, in the above

I can name a few recent speeches that have done a great job in increasing the transmission of coronavirus.

dv said:

I can name a few recent speeches that have done a great job in increasing the transmission of coronavirus.

ROFL

Another way to look at is is over one million people have the virus because they breathed in sometimes breathe that they….never mind.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Another way to look at is is over one million people have the virus because they breathed in sometimes breathe that they….never mind.

Ill try that again.

Another way to look at it is over one million people have the virus because they breathed in someone’s breathe that they breathed out.

Mabe some of them licked something.

That could happen.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Another way to look at is is over one million people have the virus because they breathed in sometimes breathe that they….never mind.

Ill try that again.

Another way to look at it is over one million people have the virus because they breathed in someone’s breathe that they breathed out.

Well some of them got it from touching something someone else had touched.

the English alphabet is contagious, is part of an encoding a decoding system, and replicates

transition said:

the English alphabet is contagious, is part of an encoding a decoding system, and replicates

The word we seems to bother you. It replicates a lot.

Do synonyms of we also bother you?

They?

Tau.Neutrino said:

transition said:

the English alphabet is contagious, is part of an encoding a decoding system, and replicates

The word we seems to bother you. It replicates a lot.

Do synonyms of we also bother you?

They?

In which Context does we bother you the most?

Used to express everyone being addressed, including the speaker?

The group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject?

Us?

List of Synonyms for “We”

a group of people
all and sundry
all of us
all of you
altogether
each and every one
each one
each person
every last one
every person
everybody
everyone
individually
one and all
our own selves
ours
ourselves
personally
privately
some people
the whole world
them
they
us
without help
you
you all
you and i
you and me
you guys
you lot

Tau.Neutrino said:

transition said:

the English alphabet is contagious, is part of an encoding a decoding system, and replicates

The word we seems to bother you. It replicates a lot.

Do synonyms of we also bother you?

They?

it was a neutral comment, perhaps somewhat diversional, not meaning to seriously challenge anybody’s corona-centric universe though

but while we’re at it, I was driving the other day, which I try to add some excitement by variously indulging theatrics, theatrics of speech, anyway i’m like derrrrr crosseyed contorted face, a look of simultaneous pain and wonder, the thought emerged that sometimes we secretly means I

Language is a virus from outer space.
       — William S. Burroughs