Amante

Omg even at the National Quarantine Unit where the hantavirus contacts are, they’re still only using surgical masks when people in quarantine interact with the medical staff. If one of them gets infected, you’ll know why.

If Hantavirus mutated into a global threat, it would unleash AI + biotech unlike anything we've ever seen. > genome sequenced and public in 4 hours > AlphaFold maps every protein target > AI screens 10,000 drugs in 24 hrs > 50 vaccine candidates designed simultaneously > AI designed antibodies in days > risk of death computed instantly > decentralized trials launch globally > enroll from home > 20 countries manufacturing at once > first doses in three weeks > real-time dose characterization > your genome + biomarkers determine your protocol > variant map updates every hour No one would wait for governments.

This is the correct protocol for 2 reasons: 1) N95’s are optimized to filter *incoming* air. Surgical masks are optimized to prevent contaminating the environment when exhaling. 2) The hantavirus 80–120 nm in body diameter. By comparison, COVID was 60-80 nm in body diameter (excluding spike proteins) While that may not seem dramatic it means a very large difference in actual mass of the pathogen. The larger and heavier pathogen size means it needs droplet vapor to carry, not just air. So the person you think is infected, wearing a surgical mask is effective as it traps droplets on exhalation. The staff wear n95s. The patients don’t. If someone is already infected there would be no statistical difference between them wearing an n95 and a surgical mask, so you do not need to waste the better equipment. In a quarantine facility the staff change over PPE and sterilize equipment between patient rooms, so there is zero risk of cross patient exposure. So only the staff need an n95.