More Tricks of the Covid-19 Virus

The following is a list of common substances and the charges they are likely to have. "Tribo" means to rub, as in rubbing a glass rod on rabbit fur and then picking up pieces of paper with the glass rod.
The list comes from this website

The covid-19 virus is probably neutral or negative because it needs to land on human flesh and, if it were positive, it would be repelled by the positive charge more likely to be found on skin or hair. Early on, it came out that women were less likely than men to get infected; what if it were due to their longer hair acting like a magnet? If it is found that men who wear a mask over a beard are no more likely to get infected as beardless men, this may mean the beard is actually protective against covid-19.

As far as mask materials are concerned, polyester and other manmade fibers may be more protective because they tend to be negative thereby repelling the, presumably, negative virus. If you build them out of more positive materials, they, like human hair, would attract the virus and keep it sequestered on the mask; however, the risk here is that you increase the possibility that the accumulated virions might be shaken loose into the air where they might be inhaled. If I had a beard, I would spray alcohol on it after removing the mask. Btw, I've taken to habitually spraying my mask--inside and out--with alcohol after I take it off.

I was using UV-C to disinfect but I have no data on how long the article needs to be under that particular UV unit for full disinfection; I suspect that an hour might be ample because I was able to leave green bananas in the bag they came in, shine UV-C on it for an hour, and the image of the bag was transferred to the banana. However, a spritz of alcohol is much faster and you don't have to fiddle with having the light shine on all parts of the mask.



Media Notes:
The President was touting disinfectants taken internally to combat coronavirus; the media had a field day but there is a therapy involving disinfectants taken internally. Doctors have used and researchers have documented the safety of OZONE injected intravenously. Although you could inject it i.v., it's too toxic to inhale. I know of no data on its use in corvid-19 cases, however.

Erin Burnett asked the Tyson spokesman why, if they were all taking precautions, their number of cases was so high. If you follow my blogs, you'd know. A packing plant is kept as cold as a refrigerator and coronavirus love the cold and dry. My guess is that they probably don't humidify because they fear encouraging the growth of mold; and, besides, it's kind of hard to humidify a cold space. The solution for all workers who are asked to work in cold environments during the crisis, is to have them wear a plastic bubble on their heads (the plastic is treated so as to not encourage condensation or a facial mask can be worn whose exhaust is channeled to the outside. The bubble is only removed in the car or at home.) An alternative high-tech solution is to install a "laminar airflow system."  This is a means of layering the air so that, if an air stream encounters an object, the flow of air is around the object and continues along the path it was on before the encounter. Only a worker downstream of an infected person would encounter the virus, so, the object is to setup the employees so that no one employee is downstream of another.

So Governor Cuomo was surprised as anyone when he said that the virus can remain active for hours suspended in air! Yahoo! Keep the masks on when you're outside su casa, thank you. Of course, he could have ridiculed the 6 foot rule by asking if the virus also obeyed the rule, but, I guess he thought the subsequent necessary discussion on insisting that masks be worn everywhere in public was a matter for someone else to ponder. I ask the Governor to consider the "canyons" of New York and how that wind doth blow ever so constantly--at least every time I've agreed to fill the MTA's coffers at the Lincoln Tunnel. Add that to coronavirus "floating" around for hours and you can imagine NYC's problem.

[digression] Hey, Governor, why does a trip across the Hudson River cost more than traversing the entire length of Manhattan? Huh, huh? Why not open up one tunnel to pedestrian traffic? Those buses under the helix can go park at the terminal and free up space for bus passengers that then disembark at the helix. Passengers would then take an electric shuttle to New York. That rail that cops once used can be used to steer and power the shuttle.

It's a thing, you know, women are wearing clothing that mimic the structure of the virus. I hereby award Tamron Hall for the most coronavirus-like designs on an outfit: