?Virus in air

[Jaybird19]

If someone infected breathes out there are droplets in moisture in breath , if my neighbour on adjoining house smokes the smoke rises with the heat and smoke enters my house. I smell this because i am sensitive to smoke. I live in South facing room with wall to wall glass so windows often open to cool air as in the recent weather. So they walk out of their back door smoking and smoke rises up and along wall to my open window . ( our houses have garage at ground level and we live on first floor) so is there the potential to have virus particles in that smoke, and thus in my living room? I have to stay there now

I have had this problem now for years and have had to ignore it but now it is different. What do i do.?

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[Jaybird19 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks for ref interesting about dilution but if the smoke is strong enough to make me cough it is not diluted much .In shutting the windows i can still smell smoke then potential virus particles are still there.

Option for a scientific study ?

I think i had better close my mind to this !

[SORRELHIPPO]

I am hoping that when someone said these droplets are not small enough to be airborne, only a cough/sneeze distance away, that they are too heavy to rise with the smoke.

[Lynneypin in reply to SORRELHIPPO]

We aren’t experts but I think I read the droplets fall to the ground fairly quickly. I’m also hoping this is the case, as I’m going into my very narrow garden very close to my neighbours.

[Jaybird19 in reply to Lynneypin]

My thought was smokers are more susceptible to virus, the smoke has been in lungs and hot air rises like a hot air balloon . So smoke rises to my level then goes along outside/ inside my windows .

Too much time to think !

Enjoy your garden but keep away , medical advice about gardening was 2 metres away from edge. i have a front garden 12 x12 ft lawn continuous with others 1970's style. So I cannot go on it at all Any excuse not to mow lawn is welcome news.!

[Jaybird19 in reply to SORRELHIPPO]

Good thought ,!

Thanks

[knitter]

I think there is a debate about the virus and aerosol transmission, rather than just big droplets .

One of my neighbours has decided to do a bit of DIY , cutting trees etc, and building bonfires that billow smoke over my garden and in through my windows .

I wonder if the dry weather conditions are better for stopping transmission of the virus than damp moist air? Just a thought, I don't know.

[Jaybird19 in reply to knitter]

Thanks Its the cigarette smoke that i react to but suddenly thought a bout virus. Obviously I think too much,!

[Jaybird19 in reply to knitter]

You would think so but too much unknown. Lets hope so. Sorry to hear about your neighbour and bonfires . I think bonfires are in our DNA going back to cave men.