Posted on 02/14/2020 4:45:21 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Happy Valentines Day.
There are currently 67,100 confirmed cases worldwide, including 1,526 fatalities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper
how about, a ‘new and improved Lysol with copper’ maybe? Copper film like clear contact paper so it goes on counters? I wonder if that fancy copper workout gear would be any help for med staff? Wouldn’t want to ingest it tho - copper toxicity? (it’s fatal in camelids).
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That you can be infected and spread the virus for more than two weeks before showing any symptoms at all makes this the holy grail of biological weapons. Oops. Wasn’t supposed to get utilized yet, and certainly not on the home-field.
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my first reaction is, that took long enough. But then I asked myself, self, why hasn’t buddy ole pal Japan taken them off for us? Long trip to Hawaii if there are infected and it’s not like we don’t have bases within Japan? It’s not like they’re short on islands either.
My high school back in the 70's had copper and its alloys all over. It's been "improved" for energy efficiency with stainless and aluminum.
Silver is good too. Not talking about colloidal silver. Silver coins and foil made from hammered silver coins work as a wound dressing. Copper applied that way could be toxic.
You can just add some to Lysol and mist things down. Should help.
It’s criminal that hospitals don’t do that with the rate of infections they have. It’s been proven it works.
“Flights from China into Hawaii have been stopped for a few days now.”
Wasn’t sure. I guess they have to transfer through LA or SF now.
I think a better question and a realistic, not racist one...Have ANY non-asians been diagnosed and if so, have any died?
Just one more...
Barricaded district in China.
https://twitter.com/VOAJiangHe/status/1228294034420117504
I don’t think traffic is a good indicator of economic activity. Beijing has ordered private companies to find a way for their employees to work from home. Telecomuting/videoconferencing. So anything that’s not hands-on human production lines will still happen.
We may see a tremendous ramping up of automation on a much larger scale worldwide so that one or a dozen people can run a factory. Probably wont get any madi-gras beads this year but computers can sew masks and PPE suits and make widgets and electronic chips and cheap 99centstore plastics. Other robots can accept, log in, transport and prepare for shipping. You might have one man putting on all the car doors on an assembly line, instead of one on each door. Slower, but still moving.
China is already using electric delivery vehicles similar to Amazon carts to deliver whatever, and talking electric carts inside isolation units to deliver food and drink to patients under observation, minimizing patient contact.
In the US, we’re guiding multiple aircraft from one control aircraft. Boats the same way. So there’s your international shipping. What’s that new satellite grid Starlink? Skynet?
If this was 50 years ago, I’d be way apprehensive. But look at the leaps in tech and robotics in just the past 5 years. How much more developed will that field be 5 years from now when the need turns from hobby to critical and all the geeks and nerds in the world get busy with some serious level tinkering?
“If anyone wants or needs a new phone, now, this weekend is the time to get one. Even if the phone is made elsewhere, there are components made in China. Many things like that.”
Thanks, I just bought one, along with a computer. Pretty much anything thinking they may need something electronic within the next 12 months might as well get to it now, because in a week or so, that will be it, for months (if not longer).
“Singapore population is so concentrated in some places that it’s like the cruise ship.
So it might not be a good place to test the ‘heat and humidity’ angle.”
I heard Joe Biden talking about this. He said it was summer in Singapore this time of the year, down there.
I suspect the same. They well know it is an uncontrollable disease. I would think we have eyes and ears on the ground all over China with this disease. Cell phones and computers are easily eavesdropped on by those in the know.
Attempting to prevent COVID-19 from going pandemic may be like trying to block a tsunami with a sandcastle.
“Have ANY non-asians been diagnosed and if so, have any died?”
The British Super-spreader was clearly non-Asian...and so were at least some of his ‘recipients’.
“If this was 50 years ago, I’d be way apprehensive. But look at the leaps in tech and robotics in just the past 5 years. How much more developed will that field be 5 years from now when the need turns from hobby to critical and all the geeks and nerds in the world get busy with some serious level tinkering?”
The problem is trying to accelerate these changes, under these conditions. They may well get there...but in 5 years or so.
Those air-conditioned high rises everybody lives in probably mitigates any effect heat and humidity will have on the virus. Can’t be a whole lot different than a cruise ship, imo.
Well, we all suspect a lot of things. Let’s perhaps focus on what we can know and how to help people with no clue.
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