The “recipe’s” I’ve seen say the 70% is what you want. I bought three bottles though there was 91% on the shelves. I’d like to find some Aloe moisturizer though that shouldn’t be is as short supply. And New Mexico still has not seen a case yet. Anyway, I’ll do some searching later - got to patch my RV roof before the next storm hits tomorrow.
MA
Coronavirus in Boston: 60 head to Brigham and Women’s Hospital for testing
Site the scene of large-scale COVID-19 scanning site
By SEAN COTTER | sean.cotter@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald UPDATED: March 7, 2020 at 1:02 p.m.
Sixty people who attended a recent biotech conference in Boston were rushed to Brigham and Women’s Hospital late Friday for testing for the coronavirus just hours after it was announced new suspected cases of COVID-19 originated from the gathering.
“This is a rapidly evolving situation,” Mayor Martin Walsh said at a crowded news conference in City Hall, joined by Gov. Charlie Baker and a phalanx of other local and state officials and first-responders.
The officials said a conference by Biogen at the Marriott Long Wharf downtown last week resulted in five new “presumptive positive” cases of the coronavirus. Three of those are in Boston and two in Norfolk County.
reposting the alcohol sanitizer ‘recipes’, to the weekend thread for those that didn’t see it Thurs. If you only find 91% rubbing alcohol it’s ok. (p.s., alcohol will etch some plastics). Here’s how to stretch 91% out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3821921/posts?page=790#790
(edited to put recipes at top of post and the why add water below)
RECIPE - reducing 91% to 70%
In cups, from eHOW.co.uk
Measure out one cup of 91 per cent rubbing alcohol, and pour it into the plastic container.
Add one-third of a cup of water and stir to mix the solution. The solution is now 70 per cent rubbing alcohol.
In grams (from answers.com)
measure 77 g of 91% alcohol and add 23 g of water.
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91% straight is going to dry your skin out like a long day at the beach. Add a little bottled water to it to take the % down a tad and decrease flammability. (might add some aloe gel too, if you’re going to use it as a hand sanitizer)
The CDC website recommends 70-91%.
Why not use 95 or 99%?
When you sear a roast, you’re protecting the juices inside the meat. The higher percentage alcohol you use, the faster you’re going to sear or seal the outside of a cell and the alcohol isn’t going to get inside that cell. Water prevents searing and acts as a tool for the alcohol to enter the cell. The pressure difference between the water on the outside and pressure inside of the cell sucks that alcohol right in. Water also has a static charge that will help Velcro onto both the virus and the alcohol, reducing evaporation time and giving the alcohol more time to do its thing.