Posted on 02/09/2020 10:13:13 AM PST by weston
PSA for non-science folks: Wonder why everyone is emphasizing hand washing? Sounds banal, but soap really IS an amazing weapon that we all have in our homes. This is because coronavirus is an "enveloped" virus, which means that it has an outer lipid membrane layer.
1/3— Karen Fleming (@KarenFlemingPhD) February 28, 2020
Basically, it's surrounded by a fat layer. Washing your hands with soap and water has the ability to "dissolve" this greasy fatty layer and kill the virus. I'm told singing "Happy Birthday" twice is approximately how long we should all be scrubbing our hands with soap.
2/3— Karen Fleming (@KarenFlemingPhD) February 28, 2020
Plus, just imagine how much we will all laugh by singing happy birthday in the loo while we kill this bug!
3/3— Karen Fleming (@KarenFlemingPhD) February 28, 2020
Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a release. “Congratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough,” Akunis said. “I am confident there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat,” Akunis said, referring to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
For the past four years, a team of MIGAL scientists has been developing a vaccine against infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), which causes a bronchial disease affecting poultry. The effectiveness of the vaccine has been proven in preclinical trials carried out at the Veterinary Institute. MIGAL is located in the Galilee. “Our basic concept was to develop the technology and not specifically a vaccine for this kind or that kind of virus,” said Dr. Chen Katz, MIGAL’s biotechnology group leader. “The scientific framework for the vaccine is based on a new protein expression vector, which forms and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues by self-activated endocytosis, causing the body to form antibodies against the virus.”
Wow, please pass the ketchup.
Thanks lysie, looking delicious!
Muslim munitions researchers are still struggling to develop a belt bomb that will not unexpectedly blow up in the face of the technician assembling the explosives and detonators.
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Good morning Gran, thanks for prayers,
I have the whole outline of my seatbelt on my body, was only 2 inches wide the other day , now bruise has expanded to about 4 inches.
Quite colorful.
Anti inflammatory pills seem to be helping pup, still hurting though.
Hubby’s shoulders and neck very bad.
He never admits pain, but does now. We hit that truck at 45 miles an hour and he turned the wheel so he could take the brunt of the impact.
Think I will keep him around another 55 years.
My hero.
He hadn’t even been to a doctor in 20 years.
Thank you lysie.
Go out and make snow angels.
You just continue to take it easy and heal.
The world will just have to carry on without you for a few weeks. lol
I shudder to think what might have happened.
Bawhahahaha!!!!
Chris Wallace: “Mr. Vice President, thank you. Thanks for your time. Please come back in less than 13 years, sir.” Biden: “All right, Chuck. Thank you.”— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) March 1, 2020
The food is GREAT at Sammy’s Mexican Grill in Phoenix, Arizona. Congratulations to Betty & Jorge Rivas on doing such a wonderful job. I will try hard to stop by the next time I am in Phoenix. Support Sammy’s! @foxandfriends— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2020
“I can hardly wait to debate him on stage. We’ll see see who’s sleepy,” Biden says of Trump on Fox News Sunday, before mistakenly calling Chris Wallace ‘Chuck’.
“No, this is Chris,” Wallace says
“I just did these back to back,” Biden explains apologetically (he also taped MTP)— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) March 1, 2020
"The Democrat presidential race is now down to two pushing-80 white guys: Jurassic Marxist and Joe Biden, the guy who just spent two weeks lying about how he was arrested in South Africa."
https://t.co/7gJMOoDdPA via @BreitbartNews— John Ocasio-Nolte (@NolteNC) March 1, 2020
"Jorge is from El Salvador and Betty is from Sonora, Mexico."
Tucson, Arizona restaurant owners face backlash for supporting @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/9yegB9ZsYh pic.twitter.com/CbDA9KUVOQ— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) March 1, 2020
Biden has a bird brain, if that.
I shudder to think of it also.
God is good.
Sent you an email the other day.
March 1 - Urmia, NW #Iran
Locals say a man fell to the ground with symptoms similar to #coronavirus.
Mid-level regime officials say 43 deaths/~600 cases of COVID-19 are far from the truth
Iranian opposition MEK: over 500 deaths
Canadian experts: over 18,000 possibly infected pic.twitter.com/2OWUDUFZRB— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) March 1, 2020
Mashhad, NE #Iran
Man seen after falling to the ground possibly of #coronavirus.
With such incidents increasing across the country, it is for certain that the statistics provided by regime officials are far from the truth, to say the least.
Reports indicate over 500 deaths. pic.twitter.com/I4CVBfId4e— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) March 1, 2020
#NEW @YouGovUS/@CBSNewsPoll:
#California:
Sanders 31%
Biden 19%
Warren 18%
Bloomberg 12%
Buttigieg 9%
Klobuchar 4%
#Texas:
Sanders 30%
Biden 26%
Warren 17%
Bloomberg 13%
Klobuchar/Buttigieg 6%
(Poll Conducted Feb 27-29)
#Texas General Election NBC/@maristpoll:
Trump 49% (+4)
Sanders 45%
Trump 49% (+4)
Biden 45%
#TXSen General Election
John Cornyn (R-inc) 49% (+8)
M.J. Hegar (D) 41%
Kids bought us tickets to see Cher, a few years back.
Yuk.
You have to wait 10 to 15 minutes in between some songs while she changes her costume.
I sure hope they all get better soon, how can we go on without them ?
Sorry, I am terrible at checking my e-mails.
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