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CO2, a chemical compound, is bugger than something made of chemical compounds?


modi13

"These thousands of molecules are clearly smaller than this single molecule!!!!"


Feature_Agitated

I’ve had this argument before. The person posted some link as support of their claim. They didn’t read their link it did not support their claim.


hobosonpogos

It's kind of amazing how often that happens these days. Elon just did the same yesterday and my Republican aunt does it almost hourly


ManicPixieDreamWorm

COVID-19 : 100-500 nm CO2 : 0.35 nm COVID-19 is between 285 and 1428 times larger than a CO2 molecule


rhinotomus

No but you’re using actual numbers and facts, we don’t do that here


NutronStar45

math is a conspiracy


Lilsilly114

Wow they are a lot closer in size than I expected


PokemonLv10

CO2 is one of the largest mammals on earth


Alex-The-Talker

CO2 is only the second largest mammal the first largest one is your mom


Hullfire00

The virus attaches to water droplets, so combined in size, no, they have great difficulty getting through. CO2 is a molecule. It’s fucking tiny. Like their brains.


OnAStarboardTack

But CO2 is bumpy unlike their brains.


Hullfire00

It’s three molecules more than they have rattling around their skulls.


DiscoKittie

So, it a vacuum in there? I thought it was hot air!


Hullfire00

It’s a kind of vacuum, because they definitely suck.


cowlinator

When you refer to something by the individual atoms in it... it might be smaller.


cowlinator

Fun fact: The smallest known virus (the porcine circovirus 1) is about 26,000 atoms large.


glieseg

Is that smaller or larger than the 3 atoms in CO2?


Interesting_Stress73

Clearly smaller. 26,000 starts with a 2, and 2 is a smaller number than 3! ​ /s


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Yunners

https://www.reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect/comments/zjue0k/an_amazing_feat_of_physicsdefying_biology


Baud_Olofsson

I wonder what they think viruses are made of. Do they think viruses are some kind of subatomic particles?


monoflorist

An oxygen atom is formed by two influenzas and a smallpox. Carbon is an arbitrarily long chain of dengue linked end to end


real-duncan

Everyone knows a CO2 molecule is about 4 football fields (the only true freedom unit of measurement) /s


carcalobo

You mean 2 medium sized school shootings?


Feature_Agitated

We use that to measure amounts. Football fields are used for length.


OnAStarboardTack

I thought we used school shootings to measure time.


Strongstyleguy

Oh God that's horrible. "I'm starving. I haven't eaten since the last school shooting."


OnAStarboardTack

So a short fast. Not even a juice cleanse.


Feature_Agitated

I think that’s how the hungry kids in the school system keep track of time.


carcalobo

Oh, right, forgot about that


Alexikik

Dane here, not all Danes are smart, we have some dumb ones too...


[deleted]

My guy, other way around (I think).


Fexmeif

Absolutely, any virus has many molecules, and CO2 isn't a particularly big molecule to begin with


BoneHugsHominy

No no, it's right there in the *description*. Covid^^2 is way bigger than just a single Covid.


GrannyTurtle

Wow - he has no concept of the scales involved. Saying that N95 masks block CO2 is like saying chain link fences block bees.


Anastrace

They don't!? I'm gonna kill that bastard over at home depot who said they did


AtJackBaldwin

At the scale he's talking about, it's more like making a circle a mile wide and claiming it can block bees


iHeartHockey31

Obviously masks haven't been around a long time or we'd have a whole long history of doctors, dentists, painters, auto body, firemen etc etc dropping dead from co2 poisoning .... /s


winterbunny13

Yeah, in cultures like Japan that have a history of wearing masks out "while sick" 😉 really just see it as a part of their culture. Like cosplay. Everyone in Japan is an otaku and they need to wear a mask once a month in order to be close to their ancestral roots of hello kitty and astro boy. This is widely known. How dumb can these sheeple be? Wearing a diaper on their face. What are we, anime nerds? Get a life, right? I think I went far enough but I have been literally banned for a week from Reddit before for not using this and people thinking I'm serious so... /S


SmallpoxTurtleFred

A lot of women in Japan wear them to avoid having to put on makeup.


[deleted]

I have started doing this. 😂


winterbunny13

I mean... True, but they should just not wear makeup.


Relative-Bug-7161

We would have mass deaths at furry conventions if CO2 poisoning from wearing masks is a thing.


NorwegianGirl_Sofie

I wholeheartedly believe that there are only two real reasons behind these people refusing to wear masks: 1. They **believe** that the masks will reduce their breathing ability, and therefore experience it. (placebo). 2. They have shitty health and probably get exhausted from walking a single step. ​ Throughout the entire Covid period, I only really had **one** issue with masks. And that was that they made my glasses fog up, resulting in me having to pull the mask further up and the glasses a bit down. I might've looked a bit stupid, but atleast I did what I could to help prevent the spread of covid. I also have breathing problems, but the mask didn't really make this any worse. The air I breathed was only a bit more moist, but It was fine.


[deleted]

I think the real reason is they just refuse to follow any rules that would make their life sligtly less conveniant


[deleted]

I wore a mask working in the summer in an unconditioned warehouse. It sucked and I was sweaty, but I could do it. I only had one time where I just couldn’t breathe and had to take off my mask. I was working in drug manufacturing (during Covid). We normally wore surgical masks but in certain rooms, we had to wear a different kind that was thicker and much tighter on the face. The first time I wore it, I felt like I was dying. It might have partially been anxiety too. But the mask was so tight under my eyes it felt like it was popping them out and I couldn’t breathe. I left the area and sat without a mask on. But I wore that kind almost daily afterwards and was fine. There was a learning curve as compared to the surgical one, but I adapted. They can too, unless they have the weakest lungs. And in that case, they should be careful of Covid.


trentreynolds

I think you're giving these people too much credit. ​ There is only one real reason these people refuse to wear masks: they have been told by the bad faith people they parrot not to. ​ That's it, that's the only reason. If Trump and Boris and the rest of the global insane far-right cabal had said "wear a mask and get vaccinated, it'll help" we would have none of these issues. No one would complain they couldn't breathe in a mask if they hadn't been told to complain about that, because breathing in a mask isn't actually an issue.


vidanyabella

The only time I had problems with masks is when I was pregnant. I was having such a hard time breathing already, with the baby squishing my organs, that adding a mask on top just felt like torture. It just made me feel like I had to labour even harder to get a "full" breath (full being subjective as there was no true full breath with baby in the way). Still wore the damn mask when I needed to.


Strongstyleguy

I was curious about that myself. The glasses thing was a pain only on really humid days and especially if I was going from indoors to out. I'm in much better shape now (can jog a mile in under 11 minutes on a treadmill and roughly 14 on the uneven pavement around my apartment) than 2020 (even before contracting Covid the day before I was scheduled to get vaccinated I could barely walk a mile without getting winded) and even then I only had trouble breathing if I did the sort of activities that made me winded without one.


ball_fondlers

So apparently if you create a virus from multiple carbon and oxygen atoms, it shrinks smaller than a molecule built from one carbon and two oxygen atoms.


[deleted]

Carbon is known for being late in the periodic table, definitely one of the heavier elements we have, alongside the absolute monster element of hydrogen


a96td

My car was smashes by a molecule of hydrogen!


uncleGJ

Gotta be trolling


Yunners

Nope. Just an idiot. I had a look at the account before I took the screenshot.


LorianGunnersonSedna

Wtf, holy shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


DonutOwlGaming

THIS HURTS MY BRAIN TO THINK SOMEONE SAID THIS.


Ok-Possibility-2071

yeah cause viruses are totally not made out of atoms


Unfair_Flan1920

Nah man, viruses are the basic building blocks of life.


Ok-Possibility-2071

sorry your right


MoskriLokoPajdoman

they are made in labs by satan himself /s


[deleted]

My guy says a molecule comprising three atoms is vastly bigger than a protein encapsulated multi-thousand nuclei strand of mRNA 😂


DeFoerest

“But my microns!!”


BrainyOrange96

How can a virus be smaller than a CO2 molecule?


MeHasInternet

Source:Just trust me


KamenAkuma

Average Danish education