Is transmission through eyes that odd?
The common cold already is. You rub your eyes, the virus enters your tears, which drain to your nose.
The common cold already is. You rub your eyes, the virus enters your tears, which drain to your nose.
It reminds me how much of the "panic!" signal I've been really starting to see explode in the last ~24h, which humans are highly sympathetically attuned to when they suddenly see it spreading everywhere around them, is just from a sheer mass of other idiots who actually don't know anything either coming online on the issue, and reflects internet meme virality, and only very indirectly the uptick in actual danger (ie, from having been loosely following the outbreak, prior to this latest popularization).
Still looks pretty fucking bad, though.
If you're using a face mask, you should be washing your hands anyway, because if you think it's working, the moment you touch it you've come in contact with virus.
Hard to do, I know, but it eliminates a major source of transmission.