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From the source of your quote:

"Human-to-human transmission occurs through close proximity or direct physical contact (e.g., face-to-face, skin-to-skin, mouth-to-mouth, mouth-to-skin contact including during sex) with skin or mucous membranes that may have recognized or unrecognized infectious lesions such as mucocutaneous ulcers, respiratory droplets (and possibly short-range aerosols), or contact with contaminated materials (e.g., linens, bedding, electronics, clothing)."[1]

"Intubation and extubation, and any procedures likely to spread oral secretions should be performed in an airborne infection isolation room."[2]

[1]: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/infection-...

Nowhere does it says that it is airborne.



> respiratory droplets (and possibly short-range aerosols)

Maybe I'm missing something here, but is the above not the definition of airborne?


Yes, it is, but IIRC the term "airborne" can also refer to disease particles that can survive in the air unencapsulated (such as certain fungi), and can therefore travel quite some distance, and can remain hanging in the air for hours.

Aerosols are heavier than air, and therefore have a very limited range and duration in which the virus can remain "airborne" in common parlance.

(edit: expanded the definition to include more than just viruses as I couldn't find an example of a virus that can survive unencapsulated)


Cool, thank you for the clarfication!


Its pretty disappointing that your comment was dead and I had to vouch for it.


NeutronStar was banned in 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553252


So you're saying all their comments are automatically dead until someone vouches for them? Or just he was downvoted on reputation?


> automatically dead

a technique known as 'shadowbanning'


"Shadowbanning" is if you do that without telling the user that they are banned, with the goal of them not realizing they are banned for a while so they waste time instead of trying to circumvent the ban.




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