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Climate change helped coronavirus spread — and your AC means it probably won't die in summer
The Independent via Yahoo ^ | 3/18/2020 | Manolya Adan, Basil Mahfouz

Posted on 03/18/2020 5:23:40 PM PDT by qam1

Environmental factors play a critical role in enabling the spread of infectious diseases like Covid-19. President Trump, amongst others, claim warmer summer months may slow down the pandemic. However, though preliminary findings suggest the outbreak may be seasonal, the World Health Organisation argues there is “no reason to believe that this virus would behave differently in different temperatures”. Studies from previous outbreaks speculate that the prolific use of air conditioning would permit pathogens to spread throughout the summer months.....

The impact of climate change on ecosystems will affect the behaviour of viruses, augmenting their capability to infect communities worldwide.........

On a local level, flooding caused by sea-level rise or heavy rains will facilitate the spread of water-borne illnesses, while hurricanes and other extreme weather events could help enable the spread of airborne pathogens such as new strains of the flu. On a global level, melting sea ice and glaciers are thawing and releasing ancient, frozen viruses and bacteria, as well as helping arctic pathogens contaminate new areas........

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News
KEYWORDS: acisdeath; basilmahfouz; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; manolyaadan
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To: qam1

I posted a few days ago that the use of the word “science” made me think climate change activists will want to impose restrictions all the time.

CNN Touts the Climate Benefits of Chinese Coronavirus

The climate alarmist community is repeatedly praising the alleged “benefits” of the deadly Covid-19 outbreak.

The CNN article is not an isolated anomaly.

Other MSM outlets such as the LA Times and the New York Times have praised the climate benefits of Coronavirus, or cited the positive climate lessons we can learn from the economic damage caused by Coronavirus shutdowns – they appear to want the hardship caused by Coronavirus economic shutdowns to become a template for how we live all the time.

The Times took this disgusting trope a step further, and explored the positive side of Coronavirus killing off old climate skeptics.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/17/cnn-touts-the-climate-benefits-of-chinese-coronavirus/


21 posted on 03/18/2020 5:46:57 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: qam1
Complete BS. The survival of most viruses and this virus decreases with increased temperature and humidity.
22 posted on 03/18/2020 5:48:22 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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To: qam1

Why wouldn’t the PRC use the “Climate Change” hoax and hysteria to promote their goals? They have taken advantage of the idiotic ideology of “Identity Politics” to divide the U.S. politically, why not continue the contagion with more “woke” piffel?


23 posted on 03/18/2020 5:50:15 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (I am at a loss, how much lower will they go before all hell breaks loose?)
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To: qam1

Balderdash.

If the Green New Deal or the like was in place many more people would be dying from the virus.


24 posted on 03/18/2020 6:03:56 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: metmom
You can have my AC, when you pry it from my.....well, you know. 😁
25 posted on 03/18/2020 6:06:23 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks.)
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To: qam1

I hope the writers experiment by turning off their air conditioning this summer! (Hope it’s a hot one!). They could save all of us. /S


26 posted on 03/18/2020 6:14:43 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: qam1
President Trump, amongst others, claim

President Trump is now plural. MULTIPLY
27 posted on 03/18/2020 6:16:02 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: qam1

My system should kill it. I just had my entire HVAC replaced and included the state of the art hospital grade air filtration system with UV disinfection.


28 posted on 03/18/2020 6:16:40 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: qam1
New business plan if I can get funding...

UV disinfecting lights inside the Home HVAC Systems.

Or go submarine and disinfect through heated elements.

29 posted on 03/18/2020 6:18:41 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: qam1

Got news for the Climate goons....the AC isn’t being turned off.


30 posted on 03/18/2020 6:33:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: metmom

My AC consists of a K-Mart fan.


31 posted on 03/18/2020 6:48:11 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: qam1

Took longer than I thought it would.


32 posted on 03/18/2020 6:50:26 PM PDT by moovova ("Socially responsible yet socially distance.")
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The reason the pandemic will "slow down" during the summer months is that human skin produces vitamin D when exposed to UV. The UV index is lower in the winter and most people are covered up at that time of year. A number of studies have shown that a high blood level of vitamin D is effective in warding off colds and the flu. There is every reason to believe that the seasonal improvement in the immune system will also be effective against the CCP virus.

Of course, people with old skin or with limited exposure to sunlight (e.g., nursing home residents or cubicle dwellers) might need to take a supplement (e.g. 5000 IU per day).
33 posted on 03/18/2020 6:51:44 PM PDT by Ragnar54 (Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
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To: Ragnar54

Well, with that slow down in the spread of the virus, it will allow people to prep better.

I will use the time to stock up and make sure we are set to shelter in place for a LONG time.


34 posted on 03/18/2020 6:53:43 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Mark17

How are you doing?

I haven’t seen you around for a while and was beginning to get worried.


35 posted on 03/18/2020 6:54:32 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: VanDeKoik

That’s a little below ours. Ours is ceiling fans.


36 posted on 03/18/2020 6:55:56 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
I haven’t seen you around for a while and was beginning to get worried.

I have been posting somewhere, about every day. 😀 Since it is summer, 365 days a year, they won’t take my AC. 👍 They have locked down the city. I can’t even take a 5 minute boat ride across the Gulf, to a beach paradise. There is a curfew, 8 PM. The grocery stores seem to have everything, except alcohol sanitizer. No panic buying.
In THIS subdivision, most people are giving the authorities the middle finger. They may not go outside the subdivision, after curfew, but they are out and about, at all hours.

37 posted on 03/18/2020 7:15:45 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go faster than Army tanks.)
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To: qam1
".... Climate change helped coronavirus spread — and your AC means it probably won't die in summer..."

..... Well .... All you would have to do is to go a day or two in hot weather without AC and .... Dead Virus .....

38 posted on 03/18/2020 7:18:58 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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I don’t see why they are complaining. The ‘Warmists’ WANT a mass die off, especially the older folks who know that the warmists are full of ‘hooey’


39 posted on 03/18/2020 7:37:28 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: qam1

We should be rooting for global warming because the corona virus thrives in cold weather.


40 posted on 03/18/2020 8:10:40 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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