Posted on 04/12/2020 10:52:54 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Mr Streeck is a professor for virology and the director of the Institute of virology and HIV Research at the University Bonn. He explained the methodology of his new study in Heinsberg, the “epicentre” of Germany’s COVID-19 outbreak, and talked about potential plans for a country to move forward gradually in getting back to a “normal” life.
These research findings have already provided some indication on how the virus works, as Streeck clarified:
“There is no significant risk of catching the disease when you go shopping. Severe outbreaks of the infection were always a result of people being closer together over a longer period of time, for example the après- ski parties in Ischgl, Austria.” He could also not find any evidence of ‘living’ viruses on surfaces. “When we took samples from door handles, phones or toilets it has not been possible to cultivate the virus in the laboratory on the basis of these swabs….”
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Exactly !
“When we took samples from door handles, phones or toilets it has not been possible to cultivate the virus in the laboratory on the basis of these swabs….”
Guess it’s safe for those fools to go back to licking toilet seats, too. /s
I like your name for him the best
cruise ships?
“Severe outbreaks of the infection were always a result of people being closer together over a longer period of time”
Proven false, it’s been found on environmental surfaces.
But I heard on the news it lives 2.2 million years on fabric, especially the exterior of surgical masks.
You can find the virus on a surface but it doesn’t mean that it can infect you. He is saying that it can’t.
If this is true, why is COVID still spreading in places where (for 4 weeks) the only allowable, transferring activity is in the grocery store?
Can we start saying that “lockdowns have failed’?
My mom is freaked out because someone told her that someone they knew “caught it” after sitting on a church pew an infected person had sat on “hours before”.
That seems highly unlikely.
A stripper pole wiper, that could be a plum job
The virus was inactivated at the time those samples were taken.
The guy who likes to lick doorknobs should have been licking *those* doorknobs on the ship.
> Some White House reporter should ask Dr. Falsi about this. <
The weasel will just say that he told Trump about it a month ago, but Trump didn’t listen.
Except the Germans have been testing. Their mortality rate is less than .1
"However, there are different findings on how the coronavirus spreads. Experts from the US Institute of Health CDC and NIH had come to the conclusion that the virus can survive 24 hours on paper, three hours in aerosols and up to three days on plastics and stainless steel. As the Robert Koch Institute states on their website, however, scientific studies like this are realised under experimental conditions, which is why they are not very representative for the risk of transmission in daily life. (emphasis added)"
I think the research on virus "survival" / infectivity is useful, as it can provide people a guideline to potentially use to minimize exposure to COVID-19. But this makes an excellent point - the research is conducted under experimental conditions - which are often not real-world conditions.
And then some people may take minimizing exposure to COVID-19 to one end of the spectrum - such as letting mail sit for days / putting mail in microwave or oven, etc.
Point taken, inactive and not viable means no threat.
Yeah, I’m going to wait for several other people to confirm that...
The Germans will also follow orders to stay home and socially distance a lot more than we do.
My son-in-law’s construction and home remodeling business has been shut down because Tommie the Commie Wolf deemed it to be non-essential.
So it’s too risky for him to work in an empty house alone. But he’s free to take a job at Wal-Mart which is jammed with people.
In my city building construction (private firms) and road construction are still going on. I’ve seen numerous buildings raising several floors during the lockdown.
Japanese, too.
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