StringJunky

Pollution down 28% in China. There will probably be more interesting coincidental data gleaned from this crisis.

The virus particles are effectively disassembled, as CharonY said, so how likely will there be any immunologically-recognizable remnants after that process?

Yeah, social kissing is customary there.

It's not intuitive. Another one not intuitive to me is cold bleach, it seems, bleaches better than warm or hot bleach. Edit: Lower concentration increases contact time so that the surface of the microorganisms protein coat is not denatured too quickly such that it prevents more of the alcohol penetrating deeper into them. Superficial denaturing may just initiate dormancy.

Japan seems to be having a relatively low infection rate. An author in Japan Times speculated this might be down to being generally more reserved in social contact behaviour and people who are ill customarily wear face masks, which long predates this issue. They hold their sneezes as well if they can IIRC. They have a high elderly population as well. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-still-coronavirus-outlier/

I hope you are using it topically and not as a throat spray.

Gilead is trialling remdesivir amongst covd patients. ETA oops...It's not a vaccine, it's an attempt to cure an infection.

A pass on how it refers to other countries but probably that's countries with functioning health systems. CharonY might have an idea of the effect of variables. Demographics seems to be one, with Italy having a large elderly population and higher than is common elsewhere death rate..

Just read the UK medical top brass think it will settle around 1%.

I think herd immunity is the endgame but politically it's a bit of an insensitive/unethical strategy because of the likely unnecessary fatalities entailed in going all out on this approach... it needs to happen in a more graduated way, hence the increasing social distancing, with, hopefully, as minimal serious casualties as possible.

Directly in an equivalent common English phrase, it probably means "It is what is and we can't change it"... C'est ce que c'est et on ne peut pas le changer (from Google Translate). Ours is an expression of resignation. We usually just say "It is what it is"

I only occasionally use it to disinfect when I want fast drying. I mostly use it on clear glass/plastic or removing marks as it leaves no smears.. The stuff I got was 99.9%. Normal disinfection is with good old bleach solution.

At £32/L? That's a cheap one now. According to a chemical retailer the wholesale price has gone up 12x . It looks like I've been ripped off elsewhere on a litre atm which was £8... no show. Not a safe thing to try and buy at this point. I always have it in for glass cleaning etc.

Brass and silver inhibit microorganisms too. Stainless steel and aluminium are the opposite.

OK.

Even if this development phase is too late, the donkey work will be done and it can be modified more straightforwardly if/when it mutates, won't it?

Yep. Gun sales have spiked there as well. It seems they need to protect themselves from their fellow Americans as things get in short supply from panic buying.

Yes, it might be worth splitting off and seeing if it goes anywhere.

I think they lose control of it rather than actually lose it. You might find this interesting: https://slate.com/technology/2016/03/schizophrenia-and-subvocal-speech-why-people-with-schizophrenia-hear-the-voices-of-god-spies-and-supernatural-entities.html

Yes. It would seem in that situation, since the ability to have internal dialogue is taken away, such a person may not have much freewill.

From what I've read, the external voice is a consequence of the brain rejecting the inner voice as alien.

I've read before that the hep c virus can outcompete the hep b virus in a host and put it into dormancy.

Rumour and the internet = match + petrol.

I don't think Sensei is and | was responding to your interpretation of his post. I was speculating as to why he might have the approach on this subject that he has, given that he's normally a measured poster.

We all live in different countries, with varied degrees of truth disseminated in each. Some people in more oppressive regimes don't have the luxury of unfettered access to unbiased news sources and may also be exposed to state-sponsored propaganda campaigns. One can only know what one can see.