There are various stories that you come across each day over the Coronavirus, and some of them having you shake your head.
Focus carried a 6-line piece today....over a region in Spain (Galicia, extreme far NW of Spain). The regional medical commission picked up this idea and made it a mandatory ban-rule.
If you tend to smoke....especially outdoors around street cafes/pubs....you will be banned if you can't keep the ban distance of 1.5 meters (they mean in terms of 'smoke-control').
They say this is to prevent the spread of Covid-19....suggesting in some way that the smoke carries the virus into the air.
True or not? Hard to say....I've not seen this mentioned in Italy or Germany. It is true that if you coughed....the virus could go a meter or so....up into the air. Yesterday, some medical folks were looking at the idea that it could go further than a meter up above a person (like a aerosol).
A conspiracy story? Maybe.....maybe not. But if you start playing around with smoke 'rules' and talking about how far smoke might go.....it wouldn't shock me if a puff of smoke was active and going three or four meters up into the air. Sounds like a good PhD project though. I suspect the PhD guy would just say a a good strong sneeze would project at the same rate as a guy smoking unfiltered cigarettes.
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