I could leave my smartphone at the house and be perfectly happy. They need us more than we need them.
Turn it off and take it with you just in case
Take out the battery or wrap it in a bunch of aluminum foil if you want to be more paranoid
What will the Chicken Little āSecond Waversā scare the world with now?
(Iām sure, absolutely sureā¦, that all the people out there wearing masks are using them correctlyā¦)
From consumerlab.com: Hong Kong researchers noted above also placed a small amount of the SARS-CoV-2 on a variety of surfaces at room temperature (at 65% relative humidity) to see how long the virus would last before becoming undetectable. On tissue and regular paper it became undetectable within just 3 hours. On cloth and on paper money, it lasted 2 days. Surprisingly and disturbingly, it lasted longest on the outer layer of a surgical mask : Virus was detectable on the mask at day 7 (although at only 0.1% of its original level), which was also how long it lasted on plastic and stainless steel.
The Wuhan wet markets have reopened and thereās around a hundred more viruses indigenous to bats?
Ok, Iām never leaving my humble abode w/o my all-saving surgical face mask again.
Full disclosure: I actually consider the āanti-Covidā personal hygiene ārecommendationsā standard personal hygiene practices. Imagine that.
I donāt think thatās out of left field, dude. I think, were society to only consist of people with some semblance of common sense, that we wouldnāt have needed anything except one warning on TV/radio to mind our distance, limit group interactions, and be extra careful with hygiene, and weād have experienced about the numbers of cases/deaths that we are now. Unfortunately, there are enough people that donāt fall into that category to make things pretty silly for a bit.
Things seem to be going in the right direction, though. Now the problem is the lag time between us reopening things and the people on unemployment deciding that they actually want to work again. Some will obviously get right on it, but I have a feeling enough people will sit back and collect all they can to dig a bit deeper into this hole weāre in.
Plus, weāll probably find out that using lysol and other cleaning aerosols every 10 seconds all day causes cancer at alarming rates.
And THAT is how you Chicken Little 2nd Wave.
There could be more than one of you.
Maybe Iām not sure what all they are. Iām not a germaphobe by any means but Iāve always been a religious hand washer. Honestly never really think about it just how I was brought up.
But 6 feet away and donāt shake hands isnāt something I was doing for sure. I couldnāt even begin to think of the amount of hands Iāve shaken in say the past ten years of my career. Traveled to a lot of places and did a lot of meeting people and public speaking.
Itās definitely time to give some of that stuff up and be more mindful once we return to far more interactions.
Good luck if you work with kids.
Yeah that aināt happening. Hell for me social distancing aināt even happening. Probably had 30 hours last week transporting kids to houses and doctors. Luckily if we arenāt having emergency situations we can work from home. But my rotation for first on call supervisor is over for a bit.
This is the 3rd environmental test that Iām aware of (Iām sure Iām missing some). Values rather different from the original study reported in the media. As I said before, it will take some time before the values converge to a more precise range.
RE: the vaccine races-- @Legalsteel do you have any ideas what your mates current biggest obstacles are to viability?
Oh my hellā¦
Trump and his Minions are pushing back at Fauci for contradicting things Trump has saidā¦(and some of it online is brutalā¦)
ā¦5, 4, 3, 2, 1ā¦
I currently donāt.I can certainly ask him for you,
I have asked him. He says the strategy is a total crapshoot, and they donāt know what the immune response will be like.
They know what the response is like for MERS, which is what theyāve adapted it from. They also picked the viral spike protein, which may not be the most useful antigen, but they donāt know for sure right now.
The other barrier is that it may need a booster, and thereās potential for production bottlenecks. Those were the key difficulties he identified anyway.
What has the immune response been in rats?
Promising. But I donāt know nearly enough to comment further. I know I have some very smart friends who are hopeful.