vaping... and one theory on the corona virus....
aleshanee > 08-14-2020, 07:10 PM
recently there has been a lot of talk about bars being hot beds for corona virus transmission.... and here in honolulu several bars have been shut down after multiple cases of community spread covid19 were tracked to certain bars.... .... then.... today... several news articles appeared talking about the dangers of virus transmission in a bar...... ....
all the articles i saw mentioned a number of things that makes bars more likely to be a hot bed more transmission.... ...people crowed together in close proximity.... alcohol..... and the relaxing of a persons sense of self protection that consumption of alcohol causes.... . meaning... people in the bars are many times more likely to not wear a mask... or to take it off more frequently.... .. and get up into other peoples faces when they do...... ..
but the one thing they did not mention.... which i believe could be a potential transmitter of all respiratory ailments..... is vaping... .... most bars have banned cigarette smoking.... but many of them continue to allow vaping... because they don;t see vaping as much of a danger.... .. and they may be right where the health hazards associated with tobacco smoke are concerned..... .. but what they ave not considered.... ..and which i have yet to see a single national health advisor mention.... is the fact that vaping produces a steam.... a moist aerial vapor that enters and fills the lungs of the user... ... which is then expelled along with whatever is in the vaping persons lungs into the outside air... ... the air everyone else around the vaping person is breathing.... ....
while it does carry carcinogens ..... tobacco smoke is not known to carry biological pathogens... ..but vaporized liquids do... ..this is why anytime a person with an infectious respiratory disease..(such as tuberculosis)... is treated with nebulized... (or vaporized).... medications in a hospital.. .. the treatment in done in a well ventilated isolation room... .. and anyone entering to administer to them is required to wear full protection including complete gowning and both n-95 masks and a facial shield or goggles..... ....it has been recognized since the late 1800s that the quickest way to catch a respiratory illness is to be unprotected in the close proximity of someone who has it... and is being treated with vaporized medicines..... ...or even simple non-medicated steam.....
my contention is that vaping produces the same kind of exhalation risk to others that nebulization does.... ....the vapor carries whatever is in the lungs of the person vaping right out to the rest of us where we breathe it in..... ... and if you can smell the aroma of what the vaping person is partaking of then you are definitely breathing it in... .... pathogens that might be in the mist and all.....
so...... ....back when i first joined the fff i learned that fundamental baptists preached constantly against smoking.... claiming it was a potential sin against the body and also a sin against others who have to breathe in the second hand smoke.... ... ..well.... ...maybe i could give them one more thing to preach against ...(which i believe is also a potential sin against others... .if not oneself as well)...... ...vaping .... the establishments where vaping is rampant are now being declared hot beds for corona virus transmission..... ....i think it should be further studied by medical researchers at the very least....... ..