USA-S Issues Guidelines for Reopening Swimming Facilities

I would honestly expect taht, given the size of the virus, which will be HUGE compared to the molecules of CO2, N2, H2O )vapor phase), and O2 we exhale, it may actually stay in the water for a VERY long time, if not forever. I've seen 120nm, which is probably a good number. The molecules of the components in air are going to be Angstroms in size, meaning 1/1000th as large. So that stuff will rise to the surface, while the virus stays submerged. I would expect it would "stick" to the water through van der waals forces, too. Think about it, the fear of it being airborn is that it is attached to droplets. Iâ€m 104.5% sure that just got really chemically technical. Question is, do those pesky Cl- ions floating around in the H2O (liquid phase) render the virus inactive or dead in short order? for instance: hand washing beats out hand sanitizer for Coronavirus because coronaviruses have a lipid shell that protects the viral RNA. Soap does to the virus shell what it does to fats and grease on your dirty dishes: dissolves it. Poof! Virus dead in a matter of seconds! Not sure how Chlorine interacts with it though.

I would honestly expect taht, given the size of the virus, which will be HUGE compared to the molecules of CO2, N2, H2O )vapor phase), and O2 we exhale, it may actually stay in the water for a VERY long time, if not forever. I've seen 120nm, which is probably a good number. The molecules of the components in air are going to be Angstroms in size, meaning 1/1000th as large. So that stuff will rise to the surface, while the virus stays submerged. I would expect it would "stick" to the water through van der waals forces, too. Think about it, the fear of it being airborn is that it is attached to droplets. Iâ€m 104.5% sure that just got really chemically technical. Question is, do those pesky Cl- ions floating around in the H2O (liquid phase) render the virus inactive or dead in short order? for instance: hand washing beats out hand sanitizer for Coronavirus because coronaviruses have a lipid shell that protects the viral RNA. Soap does to the virus shell what it does to fats and grease on your dirty dishes: dissolves it. Poof! Virus dead in a matter of seconds! Not sure how Chlorine interacts with it though.