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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Derek Thompson

      If you've played Plague, Inc. you know that it's a general principle that, for the most part, bacteria like fomites and viruses don't Sweeping generalizations are dangerous, of course, but in general staying alive on a surface is hard and requires a bigger germ with more partshttps://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1381945949996650498 …

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      Derek ThompsonVerified account @DKThomp
      It's quite possible that ALMOST ALL respiratory viruses mostly spread through the air—including rhinovirus (lots of common colds) and the flu. That means the best way to avoid getting sick isn't power-washing strategies, but ventilation strategies. Think windows over Windex. pic.twitter.com/rT5lxIeHuU
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      Bacteria with cell walls and shit that can form spores can live a long time on a metal surface Viruses are just these little oily bubbles of shit, they're delicate, they come apart real easy from various kinds of physical stress

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      (The main famous disease you get from sharing clothes and bedsheets, the bubonic plague, which is one of the diseases that inspired the invention of the term "fomite", is a bacterium And moreover it's a bacterium that lives inside a multicellular parasite, fleas)

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      Anyway the tradeoff when you're playing the bad guy in Plague Inc. is that viruses grow faster and they're much harder to treat, but they're very delicate outside a host and rely a lot on flying under the radar

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      Bacteria are much hardier and more flexible, it's just that a bacterial infection takes more time to take root and humans have a lot more ways to fight back (antibiotics) -- bigger and more complex organism means it has more weaknesses as well as abilities

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      But this is why the "bioweapon" theory for COVID-19 was always obnoxious I mean there are some advantages to making your bioweapon a virus but tons of disadvantages -- the fact that the only way to keep the virus "alive" and spread it around in large numbers is in human hosts

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      Whenever people really seriously talked about using biological agents for terrorism etc. it was bacteria for the most part, talking about anthrax or botulinum or whatnot The stuff about weaponized Ebola etc is way more speculative

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

      (And yes, it is well documented the British *intended* to use fomite transmission to give Native tribes smallpox by giving them blankets used by smallpox victims But they didn't know much about disease back then, and it's questionable if this actually worked)

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 14

          (It had a higher chance of working, because smallpox is a skin disease and infected skin cells get shed a lot more and last a lot longer than a virus that mostly sticks to the respiratory tract)

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        1. a catherine scorned‏ @georgetakesajob Apr 14
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          Also poxviruses are basically the largest most structurally elaborate viruses there are.

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