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nctnico:
I've caught that too. Seems suspicious to me. The trains looked like New York subway carts to me. A quick Google confirms it:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21265221/nyc-mta-ultraviolet-light-uvc-coronavirus-disinfect-puro-pictures

If you read the article more carefully it doesn't make much sense. It sounds like a good money sink to me to cash in on the hype. The effect hasn't been scientifically proved and it won't help to prevent human-to-human transmission of virusses much.
Electro Detective:
 :-+  It smells like a money sinker for sure,
someone spray some Glen20 on that **** before disease spreading flies and mosquitoes rock up  :scared:

If it was a true pathogen that had specific frequencies to target and pulse without too much damage to everything else,
that may be a potential to research and trial further.
Been done already last century, many reports of the technique/s apparently working
and dumped, or made illegal by the money shifters of that period, who are now trading in hot stocks in hell,
as will this current lot, and their helpers who are 'doing ok looking out for Number #1' 

But because it's a 6 months (and counting...) obvious 'trial scam' being flogged to the clueless public,
and a good one  :clap:  well worth beating down on any skeptics, deniers, proof seekers, and troll calling them with forum ban requests  >:(  :rant:
there's no real point in such a time and R+D resource wasting exercise,
except to keep stringing the billions of masked IPA sniffing suckers along, who will soon have the usual winter sniffles
and old age ailments and mortality thing,
so the deceivers will give corona even more cred

Talk to any vintage human being with serious health issues, constant pain, inconvenience and loneliness,
and they'll tell you that cashing out 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year earlier just isn't a problem,
whatever brings it on

cdev:
UV light does kill pathogens. Its one of the ways that municipalities disinfect water. So if it didnt work many of us would probably have cholera or something like that. We use it every day. Also, the Sun is why we aren't buried in germs. Exposure to sunlight kills a lot of germs.

Hanging your laundry out to dry in bright sunlight (if you live somewhere thats sunny and dry) effectively disinfects it too. And it saves energy.

Some places are so dry that you can wash your clothes, hang them out to dry, take a shower and your clothes are dry before you are done.


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So anyway, I just read this distressing article on the US's pandemic response.  WTF?

https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2020/05/how-could-cdc-make-mistake/165565/
cdev:
Yup, I think you are right, and it seems the experts are hedging their bets whenever this is discussed now.

They dont seem to be at all sure how long immunity from coronavirus lasts - after somebodty recovers from infection. If it only lasts a short time, making vaccines may not be the right approach. I'd certainly be surprised if immunity from any vaccine lasted longer than immunity from actually surviving infection by the pathogen itself.

The wrong vaccine may even make subsequent infections worse. 


--- Quote from: paulca on May 19, 2020, 04:32:21 pm ---On immunity from CovId after infection.  Will that stop you getting infected, forever, in all circumstances?  I'd doubt it.  It's not a playground shield, "But I have shield!"  Nahnahnahnah!".   If you have a measles vaccine are you completely immune to measles?  No.  If you have been infected, recovered and now show as having antibodies, then you're not immortal, and possibly not even completely immune, but you certainly have much more than the rest of us do in real terms.

The number of coronavirus infections we receive each year is very probably extremely high.  Considering most of them are common colds.  It's the three deadlier ones we need to watch out for now.

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Some people seem to get sick from those bugs a lot, other people rarely get them. i wonder why?
nctnico:

--- Quote from: cdev on May 21, 2020, 09:17:33 pm ---UV light does kill pathogens. Its one of the ways that municipalities disinfect water. So if it didnt work many of us would probably have cholera or something like that. We use it every day. Also, the Sun is why we aren't buried in germs. Exposure to sunlight kills a lot of germs.

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I guess you didn't read the article. It clearly says the method of using UV to clean subway cars has not been scientifically proven. What else is there to say? You also have to realise that they intend to use the UV light during cleaning. Not during driving around so while the car is in service it will get dirty and people will transfer virusses. So in the end it is just a different way of disinfecting a subway car.
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