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Pattern Release 4.24

Hellloooo! 

We’re still here! We just needed to recombobulate for a bit. This week we’re posting a throwback pattern we had not yet released as well as the previous one. As per usual they are donation/pay what you want/pay what you can. 

This week we have:

Fomites

Which can be found here.

Human Combustion

Vintage! It can be found here.

Stay safe, and happy stitching!

[kramlabs]

Face masks have no significant effect: Danish study | Spectator USA

The evidence from a new Danish study shows that wearing masks in the community does not significantly reduce the rates of infection

https://spectator.us/landmark-danish-study-shows-face-masks-significant-effect/

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LINK:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

Note: study brings up important points on how it’s spread, aerosol vs droplets vs fomites

[myownprivatecinema]

Contagion (2011), dir. Steven Soderbergh

[wayfaringmd]

Can vaccinated individuals still carry/spread disease? Say they come into contact with someone who has measles. Even if the individual is vaccinated and doesn't get sick, is it still possible to spread it to other unvaccinated people?

Yes and no.

There are 2 basic ways diseases are spread: direct contact and fomites. Direct contact would be like a person sneezing in your face or a cut coming in contact with someone else’s body fluids. Fomites are objects that a virus or bacteria will live on for a certain period of time (anywhere from minutes to days) that when we touch them we pick up the big and then ingest it and become infected. Fomites are why you should clean your cell phone (I see you texting on the toilet) and doorknobs.

If a person has been vaccinated against a disease and has an adequate immune response to the vaccine, the chance of them carrying the disease (aka being infected but not showing signs of illness) and spreading it to someone directly is extremely low. Now a vaccinated person CAN act as a fomite though. So say a vaccinated person shakes the snotty hand (not usually visibly snotty- microscopically) of a person with a virus and then shakes another person’s hand. The vaccinated person can pass that virus on from the sick person if the well person, say, eats an apple with that snotty hand.

There are many diseases that can be spread by people who aren’t showing any symptoms. For example, the flu is still contagious for several days after symptoms have resolved. People pass on HIV and hepatitis all the time without knowing they’re infected. Some bacterial infections—salmonella and typhoid come to mind—are also still shed by the carrier long after they get well. Remember Typhoid Mary?

[shitpostsampler]

The tweet where we grabbed these fantastic words. 

On the SPS Discord we love Seanan McGuire. She has a huge bibliography, so whittle away some social distancing hours with some fantastic prose. 

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[mongrelmutt]

If you stop and think about it, fomites and apostolic succession are pretty much the same thing - the only real difference is what they are transmitting 😆

LOL YES

[winnie-the-imaginary-pooh]

Seeing as how scientists have not yet found cases where people catch it from fomites, but the virus HAS been confirmed to stay active in aerosol, here’s some unsolicited advice.

It’s okay to be overly cautious about surfaces which you think might be “contaminated” but don’t let that less-important caution keep you from being aware of the real way that it spreads. Air!

Paul has the virus, he coughs in the grocery store and Kate walks through his nasty cough air (or within 6 feet of Paul in the direction that he coughed) and Kate breathes in the virus. Kate now has the virus. That’s how aerosolized virus spreads.

Basically I’m saying an abundance of caution over fomites (surfaces) is all fine and good, but stop thinking that is the way this thing is spreading. It’s not.