To confirm the social-distance rule: If cough droplets are 0.1 mm and ejected at 10 m/s, a quick Stokes law calculation shows that they travel about 2m laterally and settle in about 1s. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUTjWTdWkAIQ73D?format=jpg … (chart courtesy of @DrPascalMeier).
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Also, Stokes's law assumes rigid spheres. Larger droplets may assume a more aerodynamic shape. Smaller ones may be carried further on air currents. I'd want to know more about both before relying heavily on the simple calculation if my life is on the line! (It may be—so I do!)
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Hameroff is working on a paper that documents how the Coronavirus uses non local waveform collapse to infest the microtubuli of lung cells from within
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