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#1 Keep your mask clean and be careful to keep the outside of the mask outside if your mask is reversible. On today's The View, Whoopi was quick to condemn a Texan congressman who said he could have gotten his infection from wearing a mask. Even if  you don't wear the mask inside-out, you can still breathe in virus by handling the mask incorrectly. I know of no substance that will bind with those spikes on the virus and never let go. Be safe; clean your mask if washable or use a new one everyday if you can afford it OR get yourself a UV disinfecting light that you can use to keep your mask free of viable virus with the added benefit that you might just vaccinate yourself with the, now, inactivated virus. You've heard that being in an enclosed space is particularly dangerous but if that space is heavily air-conditioned, you incur additional risk because the virus was made to float better in dense cold air. Is it little wonder that we in the U.S. have such high numbers when y...

[repeated post] OK, so explain to me why government doesn't demand that everyone wear masks when leaving the home. I'm not an epidemiologist but it seems to me that would stop the virus or rewrite the book on contact tracing. Perhaps we may need to employ many into street maintenance to sanitize common surfaces like handrails, but that also sounds like a win-win. Another plus is that it may doom Corvid-19 to just weeks of mischief instead of months or years. What's the problem here, World? Money? (2T$?) Government overreach? They now tell us we have to wear clothes in public. Sharia law look-alike? Oh, please; but if you must, it's only temporary! The only problem I see with wearing masks in public is two-fold: law enforcement would probably hate the idea (though tech can come to the rescue--yes, even if it means universal ID), and mating rituals (do some Muslims fall in love through just the eyes?) but think of the new cottage industry which will be created to pl...

In considering the numbers associated with Coronavirus infections across the globe, it occured to me that perhaps it was the humidity in Africa and S. America that held the virus in relative check. I then had to consider temperature--why does the virus prefer colder environs. This blog hopes to make sense of the two physical parameters. First, consider a tiny, etsy, bitsy virus released into the air. It is smaller than most particles in the air. All airborne particles undergo Brownian motion and the motion is directly dependent on temperature--the higher the temperature, the more motion. Picture now the crown on the coronavirus. Can it not be seen that those stalks might be subject to breakage when crashing against those other bigger particles? That, I believe, is the main reason for the virus preferring cold--it, and other microscopic objects in the air, don't vibrate as much. (CDC should investigate efficacy of IR radiation) The humidity angle was a quick attempt to explain E...

He's verbose but after listening to him, you are left with many fewer unanswered questions and you feel a little better about humanity and it's governments. Too bad he can't be on the national stage. I applaud his order to have healthcare workers tested ASAP for antibody titres. This would save enormously on PPE's because those who test positive for antibodies to covid-19 can treat patients without extensive PPE. Governor, this relates to your concern over the lack of social distancing you've observed in the youth: There is a message which is not being promulgated to the youth. In a previous post, I told how the virus infects and how it damages ALL lungs. Here it is in a nutshell: the virus attaches to ACE-2 receptors in the lung. Both virus and ACE-2 receptors get sucked into the cell. Because you've lowered the ACE-2 receptors on the cell surface, events are set in motion that result in less lung surfactant and greater lung fibrosis. Lung surfactant can retu...

Bernie Sanders gave an empathic speech that was truly presidential. Joe Biden gave a speech no better than Trump's in terms of empathy. There was no substance in Biden's speech; whereas, Bernie went right to all the specifics that will get us out of our present crisis. Sure, Bernie touched upon his signature policy but under a Biden administration, you'd get pretty much what we're getting now under Obamacare. Will he offer an exception, saying that IF a pandemic were to be declared, you'd get free healthcare? Under BernieCare, you may not even need that because citizens would be getting healthcare throughout their lives and they'd be advised to take, i.e., prophylactic Vitamin D which is essential for our immunity. There would be no need for a bureaucracy to declare a pandemic--we'd go to the doctor at the first sign of a viral infection. I saw empathy in Bernie Sander's response; I saw an orchestrated angry response in Biden's. Uncle Joe would h...