On wearing glasses: Do you think contacts would also be helpful?
I’ve noticed, for example, that my eyes aren’t nearly as affected by chopping onions when I’m wearing contacts. That seems vaguely similar to COVID transmission by aerosols.
Isn’t the exposure route drainage ducts that feed into the nose and lungs? The cornea isn’t living in itself, it has no cells for the virus to afflict. The contact is only covering the cornea, while glasses are acting as a “shadow shield” to reduce the number of droplets that hit the eyes.
In light of this likely mechanism I would not assign “almost certainty nonzero helpful”
On wearing glasses: Do you think contacts would also be helpful?
I’ve noticed, for example, that my eyes aren’t nearly as affected by chopping onions when I’m wearing contacts. That seems vaguely similar to COVID transmission by aerosols.
Nonzero helpful almost certainly, also almost certainly much less effective than glasses.
Isn’t the exposure route drainage ducts that feed into the nose and lungs? The cornea isn’t living in itself, it has no cells for the virus to afflict. The contact is only covering the cornea, while glasses are acting as a “shadow shield” to reduce the number of droplets that hit the eyes.
In light of this likely mechanism I would not assign “almost certainty nonzero helpful”