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| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: Simon on March 13, 2020, 01:25:16 pm --- --- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 13, 2020, 11:57:20 am --- This raises another question: Would having a nip of grappa or whisky (both very high in ethanol content) be a good backup as well as washing hands with hand sanitiser after eating take-away food or restaurant food prepared by someone with corona virus? It is known ethanol kills this virus in its tracks. Could a glass of wine after each meal sanitise the mouth, the gullet and maybe even the stomach contents? --- End quote --- Err, no. It does not work like that. If the virus enters a mucus part of your body it's in your body, not your gut. Your gut is also one of the harshest chemical environments known to man. --- End quote --- Hydrochloric acid... If you ever tried working with that stuff, you get impressed with how the body manages to keep it contained without burning holes in your body! |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: donotdespisethesnake on March 13, 2020, 12:53:45 pm --- --- Quote from: not1xor1 on March 12, 2020, 07:04:53 pm ---By May the virus should be weaker, as shown in studies regarding the SARS virus, --- End quote --- So "should be weaker" according to studies of a different virus. You can play semantics all you like, doesn't change anything. --- End quote --- I hate to bring fact rather than rhetoric into things, but you do realise that SARS and Covid-19 are caused by the same species of virus, don't you. A different strain, but the same species. In the ~30,000 base pairs of their genome over 99% is identical (which is much more significant than 99% similarity in a animal where there are billions of base pairs). So drawing parallels from what is know about the long term behaviour of SARS is quite valid. It's about the same as making predictions on the biology of Dobermann Pinschers based on the biology of German Shepherds, both different but closely related strains of the same species. Between 28th Feb and today 350 separately produced genome sequences have been published for variants of the SARS virus SARS-CoV-2 (aka Covid-19). It seems to be acquiring about 1-2 observed mutations a month. Some of these mutations will make it more virulent and pathogenic, some will make it less, some will not change it's virulence or pathogenicity. More pathogenic variants kill their hosts faster, so are less successful in evolutionary terms and as a consequence die out faster. The pattern of viruses mutating and less pathogenic, more likely to spread variants arising and gradually dominating the infection spread is well known. |
| DrG:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 13, 2020, 01:40:22 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on March 13, 2020, 01:25:16 pm --- --- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 13, 2020, 11:57:20 am --- This raises another question: Would having a nip of grappa or whisky (both very high in ethanol content) be a good backup as well as washing hands with hand sanitiser after eating take-away food or restaurant food prepared by someone with corona virus? It is known ethanol kills this virus in its tracks. Could a glass of wine after each meal sanitise the mouth, the gullet and maybe even the stomach contents? --- End quote --- Err, no. It does not work like that. If the virus enters a mucus part of your body it's in your body, not your gut. Your gut is also one of the harshest chemical environments known to man. --- End quote --- Hydrochloric acid... If you ever tried working with that stuff, you get impressed with how the body manages to keep it contained without burning holes in your body! --- End quote --- Yep and one can also be impressed when something like H. pylori comes around, destroys that containment lining and *poof* an ulcer...not because you worried about the mortgage but because the marvelous engineering can, on occasion, be defeated by other marvelous engineering. |
| whalphen:
--- Quote ---A few days ago I brought a couple of large toilet roll packs and could have easily been labelled a hoarder, how dare I buy two right? --- End quote --- Ignore the noise. Just prepare. If you have to be isolated for weeks, you won't need to go out to buy toilet paper. If you stay home and out of the chain of transmission, you'll be helping save lives. Those calling others hoarders are just people who didn't have the foresight to plan and prepare as well as you :scared:. |
| vodka:
Ode to toilet paper (spanish version) Pa, pa, pa, pa, paper, paper, paper, paper, paper, paper, paper, paper paper, paper, paper, paper, paper, paper paper, paper, sweet satin, you'll give us pleasure paper, paper, without end. Paper, paper Of color gray, loud red white and blue, lemon green is your essential purpose to caress with softness. You always alert serving the people without distinguising analphabet or intellectual, Private or general, proletariat or capital. just at time of evacuating the classes to fight just at time of evacuating the classes to fight to... fight... Is your cruel destiny, is your disgraceful fate when they used you to violate your punishment of sending you to the sewer by flushing. And is your wise rebelliosness to block the pipe as a final revenge. Humble, delicated, and selfless paper, you have always been despised and mistreated mercilessly. Loved paper, fellow of the toilet you must be defended and presented in society. And recieve the award of some... decoration. Paper, paper, faithful friend. Because with your exemplary help we don't have to splash the fingers, and as proof of good faith I swear I'll never use the rough leaves of the ABC. Only you, Only you, Only you, Solo tĂș! And may my yell reach heaven because you are and you'll be our best friend, loyal immortal toilet paper paper, per, per, per... Glory to the paper. Glory to the paper, paper, per, per, per... https://lyricstranslate.com https://youtu.be/UNh9RPwUJGg |
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