StringJunky

Yes. I said: "You can choose not to act on it". You don't have to physically freak out, following with some random action that may be more dangerous than the threat. I like bats but that one was initially just a shadow with no apparent cause... like a ghost.

You can choose not to act on it. I had a bat in my living room once. It was flying around so fast I couldn't focus on what the issue was... just pure fear. I pulled a coat or something my head, sat on the floor and waited to calm down. I eventually saw it and realized it was more spooked than I was. I watched it for a bit until it went into the fold of a curtain. I coaxed it into a bucket with a book then let it fly off from the window.

They can keep other insects down in ones property. All I see is spiders and something must be around in the house to keep them going... wood lice, earwigs, flies and stuff like that

For the current disease it's uncertain: Yes, that idea is interesting concerning filtering.

But doesn't have to be a secondary infection.

But what has always been "over there" has never been, to the extent it is now, in our respective Western world backyards. If anything, this virus should inform us that no country is an island.

Load at exposure.

On the subject of dose, I saw this recent paper that suggests the severity of the outcome may be tied to initial viral load:

OK cheers.

Could it be East Germans are more likely to snitch on their neighbours and so there's more paranoia there?? Your post reminded of this Reuters article I read today: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-denunciati/germans-snitch-on-neighbours-flouting-virus-rules-in-echo-of-the-stasi-past-idUSKBN21K2PB It's a WAG on my part but it seems plausible in a casual way.

Because he wants to know. People ask stuff because they want to know.

This is a discussion forum.

Covid-19 is the disease and sars-cov-2 is the virus.

It sounds like a creationist argument.

As does any person that understands the current science. Spermatozoa and ova are not 'individuals' in the commonly used sense.

You are endowing entities with a property which don't have the equipment to support it. Their behaviour will be wholly biochemically predetermined.

Ancient air pollution, trapped in ice, reveals new details about life and death in 12th Century Britain. In a study, scientists have found traces of lead, transported on the winds from British mines that operated in the late 1100s. Air pollution from lead in this time period was as bad as during the industrial revolution centuries later. The pollution also sheds light on a notorious murder of the medieval era; the killing of Thomas Becket. Becket, though, had other plans. Henry's growing irritation with his Archbishop led the King to reportedly utter the infamous phrase: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Unfortunately for Becket, a group of knights loyal to the King decided to make Henry's wish come true. Becket was beheaded in a brutal attack at Canterbury cathedral on 29 December 1170. Now scientists have found physical evidence of the impact of the dispute between Henry and Becket in a 72-metre-long ice core, retrieved from the Colle Gnifetti glacier in the Swiss-Italian Alps. In the same way that trees detail their growth in annual rings, so glaciers compact a record of the chemical composition of the air, trapped in bubbles in the yearly build-up of ice...... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52095694

Practice and let neuroplasticity do the rest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity

The trick is not to buy one too big. I'm not freezing stuff for when Armageddon comes.

Besides pro astronomers on the case, I'm sure there's plenty of keen amateurs interested in them as well. It would be impossible to put a plug on it. Not that I think NASA or ESA would suppress anything. They are scientists, not politicians.

I think it's human nature to blame something about oneself that can't be changed for ones lack of progress in some aspect. I gave my deafness more weight than it deserved, in hindsight.

Yes, evolution will do its thing.

No, they knew what they were getting into and don't ignore the problem.

Yes, it's the same mentality that builds on eroding coastlines.

As I'm sure you've read on here many times: "That which has no evidence can be dismissed without evidence". This is the problem when one holds an arbitrary belief in the existence of something: it causes one to selectively avoid facts in order to support it.