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Precautions that should be taken when there is no way to escape from covid +ve people

Q: What precautions should we take when there is no way to escape from covid +ve people?

Krishna: I can understand your situation because I myself faced it recently. And ordinary people don't even have PPEs when they visit highly contaminated places.

To be frank I got bored with so many similar-looking videos people made about masks, physical distancing, hand-washing and sanitizers and posted on the social media. And if I say these are not enough when you visit a highly contaminated area?

I will tell you what more precautions I took in such situations. But you should also have some knowledge to have the whole picture of covid contamination in your mind to avoid it completely.

I took my first dose of covid vaccine in a private hospital. I didn't face any problems then. But when the time came for me to take my second dose, almost all private hospitals stopped giving covishield vaccines. So the doctor who gave me my first dose advised me to take it in a government hospital. I was reluctant but she and other doctors I consulted told me it would become more difficult to get it even in government hospitals or any hospital as time goes by. As seven weeks had already passed since I took my first dose, I had no other choice but to go to a government hospital for my second dose.

I wore a three layered tight fitting mask and took a hand sanitizer with me. I also wore big goggles to protect my eyes. When I went to a UPHC here, to my horror, about 150 patients were waiting to get tested for covid. The vaccine Q was very close to these patients, no distance was maintained. The air was full of viruses! There was no space to move too. So I told the person who stood in front of me about my position, moved away and stood in the hot sun (because sunlight degrades the virus quickly). That 's bad for me, because my nose started bleeding and I fainted too after two hours of this torture in the hot sun of mid May. The covid patients helped me get up and recover there! There was no other go!

I also noticed which direction the wind was moving. Increasing evidence suggests that understanding airflows is important for estimation of the risk of contracting COVID-19. The data available so far indicate that indoor transmission of the virus far outstrips outdoor transmission, possibly due to longer exposure times and the decreased turbulence levels (and therefore dispersion) found indoors.

So I chose a place where the wind moved away from me and towards the patients. I also saw to it that nobody and nothing stood between the patient Q and me.

And when the Q moved into a room, I refused to go inside. I stood outside in the SUN . Indoors are very dangerous.

Consequently, the air flow patterns within a space are crucial for determining the distribution, transport and fate of any airborne contaminants. Predicting these flow patterns is extremely challenging since they depend critically on both the boundary conditions (e.g. the location of inlet and outlet vents) and on the internal dynamics of the fluid, particularly buoyancy forces associated with temperature differences. This should be contrasted to, say, aerospace where flow round an aerofoil does not depend on the dynamics of the air, and geophysical fluid dynamics where boundary conditions are often unimportant. Further, flows in buildings and other enclosed or semi-enclosed spaces often take place in very complex geometries, making computation of these turbulent flows particularly challenging.

Poor ventilation is one thing that bothered me there. It was crowded too.

I went inside only when my turn came, took the jab and came out immediately.

While coming out , I fainted because I stood for two hours in the hot sun. People offered me water but I refused to drink it because I would have to remove my protective mask to do that. I literally ran out and came home. I took a head bath immediately, washed my clothes and went into self-isolation for 14 days. I refused to meet anybody during that period despite getting a days fever due to vaccination. I Did not seek help from anybody.

I always take good healthy food and maintain my circadian rhythms correctly to have a healthy immune system.

And I already took one dose of vaccine and had partial immunity.

So I was confident, I would avoid catching covid even when I came into contact with so many patients.

In the end I think my scientific knowledge helped me avoid catching covid despite coming into contact with several covid patients. I felt bad about the others because they didn't do what I did despite me telling them to move away from the covid patients. I wonder how many of them caught covid.

If you don't have full knowledge about something , we call that situation "Partial Picture Paralysis", you can't fully follow the precautionary measures and avoid the harm when you are in a dangerous situation.

Just wearing a mask doesn't help you fully. Does it?

Just using a hand sanitizer doesn't help you fully. Does it?

Science helps you. But only when you follow it fully!

When several factors decide outcomes, they follow the interplay of scientific rules and routes and exactly fit into the reaction realities. How a person survives a health condition or a catastrophe or a bad situation depends on the sum total outcomes of scientific factors occurring simultaneously. Other outside things have no effect whatsoever on it. Any connections you make between rituals/superstitions and the outcomes depend on your perceptions and experiences. A positive outcome either to you or others makes you stick with them. A negative result will make you attack them. But the net result doesn't depend on anything that is not related to it! And these unrelated factors are your beliefs, rituals, superstitions and myths.

These are life and death situations. Scientific illiteracy can kill you sometimes because you leave everything to chance as you don't have faith in your own abilities. That is when you take emotional support from irrational beliefs!

Precautions that should be taken when there is no way to escape from covid +ve people

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