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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So… both places are hot, but Sturgis in August is really dry hot and Daytona Beach in October is jungle-humid hot. Sturgis is very dry and dusty, whereas Daytona Beach is more soggy and mildewey. spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The dust part might be a distraction (it isn’t clear to me why the presence or absence of a dust particle would matter.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A water-mist behaves very differently in humid conditions than it does in dry conditions. If you take one of those Mr. Mister spray bottles, that is kinda analogous to a sneeze, ja? If you spray one of those into the air in Florida in October, the mist will kinda hang there, slowly disperse. If you repeat in August in Sturgis, the mist cloud evaporates within seconds.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So if the virus is riding on a water droplet from a sneeze, would the virus care at all if its water droplet evaporated in seconds? Wouldn’t it still be hanging there waiting to be inhaled? Does covid care if it is dried and re-moisturized? Or do we need to treat mucous droplets different from water droplets, and somehow theorize that perhaps the virus rides on droplets of mucus, sneeze, water evaporates, now finds itself stuck to a revolting nano-booger? How the hell does that work? Anyone? Keith?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>