Sunday, 17 May 2020

Billions of Viruses Fall From The Sky Every Day Right Around You.. Social Distancing Kabuki Wont Help.

A 2018 study by at observatory in Spain found millions of bacteria and billions of viruses falling daily out of the sky onto a single square metre.  You read that correctly.  They fell out of the sky, mostly linked to specks of dirt and organics carried on low pressure Atlantic systems and dust storms out of the Sahara.    Saharan dust also lands in the Americas.  Some would not have been viable.  Out of three billion viruses per day per square metre, I expect a few were good to go.

Social distancing kabuki won't help you here.
This is just life.  Viruses are everywhere, even in our genome.

The paper cited at WUWT:
Reche, I., D’Orta, G., Mladenov, N. et al. Deposition rates of viruses and bacteria above the atmospheric boundary layerISME J 12, 1154–1162 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-017-0042-4    (If you click through to read the abstract, there are details of the range of deposition.  For viruses they had results varying between a low of 260 million and a high of 7 billion in one day on one square metre.)
"You can see a massive plume of Sarahan dust acdross the
tropical North Atlantic Ocean.  June 27 2018 NOAA"

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