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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.

...or "the militia".

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.

Is the smell of HDPE or the choline?

You need to be philosophical and not let statistically spurious things like this immobilize you.

Radon gas, which leaks up from the ground and concentrates in enclosed buildings, causes 3% of lung cancers... do you worry about that, and that is a measurable risk. Incidence in mobile phone use is not measurable, so why worry about it. It's "possible" but why worry about that particular possibility when there are countless possibilities of equal worth? Why not worry about all of them and totally consume yourself with anxiety. Something is going to kill you eventually... prioritise risk to the most likely.

I would think if the risk was significant, there would, by now, be a clearer correlation of an increase in carcinogenic incidence since the advent of the mobile phone.

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.

In order to conceptualize and realize nothing, one must first put it in a container and then we can say : "There is nothing in the container!"

Are you dealing with infectious particles when you wear a mask?

It all depends on: the size/type of molecule; whether it can breach a membrane; ability to be neutralised and excreted or stored and accumulates.

I thought so too. We shouldn't be surprised anymore with this administration though.

People are working on models and have possible working parts of the puzzle but nothing concrete as yet. You can search the internet for 'abiogenesis' if you want to have a look around for the models.

That sounds like conspiracy-talk. The operative words are "properly used" and they have a service life and they need to be put on and taken off properly with cleaned hands after touching them. How many people can do all this intuitively? In the hands of most people they provide nothing more than a feelgood factor and are misdirecting limited supplies where they really are useful

Yes and basically not doing stuff or performing hygiene actions in the right order.

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