International Covid-19 Breaking News v17: Russian PM infected

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King in the North said:
Why would I do that? This one is close enough.


Take your Ls man.
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No. This used to be a half decent thread. It could turn around if you and the spaz patrol take the TDS to the proper place.

Make This Thread Bearable Again
 
French Canadian said:
Triggered republican. Trump owned us with FACTS and LOGIC tonight, showing us how easy the solution to this crisis was. Just inject some desinfectant

I also have a question about your use of the expression "TDS". Dont you think it's an easy way to deflect valid criticism towards the president, which, in a democracy, should be constantly scrutinized ?
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We all got a good laugh from him today. But a dozen bots spamming out Orange Man tells people to inject Lysol sorta takes the fun out of it
 
SBJJ said:
No. This used to be a half decent thread. It could turn around if you and the spaz patrol take the TDS to the proper place.

Make This Thread Bearable Again
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I made a post about the President suggesting we inject disinfectant to fight the virus in a thread with that exact language in the title and then you threw a temper tantrum.
 
SBJJ said:
*This serves as a good example of how smart you are.
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You’re on here defending Daddy when he tells people to inject disinfectant while correcting the grammar of other posters. This serves as a good example of how smart you are.
 
SBJJ said:
We all got a good laugh from him today. But a dozen bots spamming out Orange Man tells people to inject Lysol sorta takes the fun out of it
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I bet they keep the sharp objects away from you don't they,? I mean your neck must be damn near broken off from all the spinning.

I almost feel bad for you


Almost.
 
Holy fuckin lol.

<JagsKiddingMe>

They resurrected Leslie Nielsen and made him leader of free world.
 
King in the North said:
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You’re on here defending Daddy when he tells people to inject disinfectant while correcting the grammar of other posters. This serves as a good example of how smart you are.
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I literally left out the word “of” during a typing error and he thinks he’s won some hard fought victory or something.

There is no winning with these psychotics if you notice. These are the same people who say things like “why don’t you just try to reach out and hear what the other side(they) has to say. I say you try first because talking to these people is near impossible.

These people are not here in good faith, they’re here to troll and deny the things you’re watching in real time. We have Canadian posters defending the presidents statements about disinfectant and Shining light inside of your body lol.
 
Sir Punchalot said:
I'll grant you that Donald Trump doesn't exactly have the deepest thoughts, even compared to someone like Karl Pilkington, but it's hard to think of any politician that was anywhere close to as funny as this guy. He's not even joking when he says these things. He actually thinks he's being clever.

No one can say that Donald Trump is completely useless. He has become the world's comic relief guy during this crisis, and we needed someone like that.
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We need a leader more than we need a joker.
 
Sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly, say US scientists

The new coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.

William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer.

"Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air," he said.

"We've seen a similar effect with both temperature and humidity as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favorable to the virus."

But the paper itself has not yet been released for review, making it difficult for independent experts to comment on how robust its methodology was.

It has long been known that ultraviolet light has a sterilizing effect, because the radiation damages the virus's genetic material and their ability to replicate.

A key question, however, will be what the intensity and wavelength of the UV light used in the experiment was and whether this accurately mimics natural light conditions in summer.

"It would be good to know how the test was done, and how the results were measured," Benjamin Neuman, chair of biological sciences at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, told AFP.

"Not that it would be done badly, just that there are several different ways to count viruses, depending on what aspect you are interested in studying."

Virus inactivated

Bryan shared a slide summarizing major findings of the experiment that was carried out at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center in Maryland.

It showed that the virus's half-life—the time taken for it to reduce to half its amount—was 18 hours when the temperature was 70 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit (21 to 24 degrees Celsius) with 20 percent humidity on a non-porous surface.

This includes things like door handles and stainless steel.

But the half-life dropped to six hours when humidity rose to 80 percent—and to just two minutes when sunlight was added to the equation.

When the virus was aerosolized—meaning suspended in the air—the half-life was one hour when the temperature was 70 to 75 degrees with 20 percent humidity.

In the presence of sunlight, this dropped to just one and a half minutes.

Bryan concluded that summer-like conditions "will create an environment (where) transmission can be decreased."

He added, though, that reduced spread did not mean the pathogen would be eliminated entirely and social distancing guidelines cannot be fully lifted.

"It would be irresponsible for us to say that we feel that the summer is just going to totally kill the virus and then if it's a free-for-all and that people ignore those guides," he said.

Previous work has also agreed that the virus fares better in cold and dry weather than it does in hot and humid conditions, and the lower rate of spread in southern hemisphere countries where it is early fall and still warm bear this out.

Australia, for example, has had just under 7,000 confirmed cases and 77 deaths—well below many northern hemisphere nations.

The reasons are thought to include that respiratory droplets remain airborne for longer in colder weather, and that viruses degrade more quickly on hotter surfaces, because a protective layer of fat that envelops them dries out faster.

US health authorities believe that even if COVID-19 cases slow over summer, the rate of infection is likely to increase again in fall and winter, in line with other seasonal viruses like the flu.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-sunlight-coronavirus-quickly-scientists.html
 
Sir Punchalot said:
Sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly, say US scientists

The new coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.

William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer.

"Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air," he said.

"We've seen a similar effect with both temperature and humidity as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favorable to the virus."

But the paper itself has not yet been released for review, making it difficult for independent experts to comment on how robust its methodology was.

It has long been known that ultraviolet light has a sterilizing effect, because the radiation damages the virus's genetic material and their ability to replicate.

A key question, however, will be what the intensity and wavelength of the UV light used in the experiment was and whether this accurately mimics natural light conditions in summer.

"It would be good to know how the test was done, and how the results were measured," Benjamin Neuman, chair of biological sciences at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, told AFP.

"Not that it would be done badly, just that there are several different ways to count viruses, depending on what aspect you are interested in studying."

Virus inactivated

Bryan shared a slide summarizing major findings of the experiment that was carried out at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center in Maryland.

It showed that the virus's half-life—the time taken for it to reduce to half its amount—was 18 hours when the temperature was 70 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit (21 to 24 degrees Celsius) with 20 percent humidity on a non-porous surface.

This includes things like door handles and stainless steel.

But the half-life dropped to six hours when humidity rose to 80 percent—and to just two minutes when sunlight was added to the equation.

When the virus was aerosolized—meaning suspended in the air—the half-life was one hour when the temperature was 70 to 75 degrees with 20 percent humidity.

In the presence of sunlight, this dropped to just one and a half minutes.

Bryan concluded that summer-like conditions "will create an environment (where) transmission can be decreased."

He added, though, that reduced spread did not mean the pathogen would be eliminated entirely and social distancing guidelines cannot be fully lifted.

"It would be irresponsible for us to say that we feel that the summer is just going to totally kill the virus and then if it's a free-for-all and that people ignore those guides," he said.

Previous work has also agreed that the virus fares better in cold and dry weather than it does in hot and humid conditions, and the lower rate of spread in southern hemisphere countries where it is early fall and still warm bear this out.

Australia, for example, has had just under 7,000 confirmed cases and 77 deaths—well below many northern hemisphere nations.

The reasons are thought to include that respiratory droplets remain airborne for longer in colder weather, and that viruses degrade more quickly on hotter surfaces, because a protective layer of fat that envelops them dries out faster.

US health authorities believe that even if COVID-19 cases slow over summer, the rate of infection is likely to increase again in fall and winter, in line with other seasonal viruses like the flu.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-sunlight-coronavirus-quickly-scientists.html
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Climate Change deniers have found that Ace they’ve been looking for.
 
Sir Punchalot said:
Sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly, say US scientists

The new coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.

William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer.

"Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air," he said.

"We've seen a similar effect with both temperature and humidity as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favorable to the virus."

But the paper itself has not yet been released for review, making it difficult for independent experts to comment on how robust its methodology was.

It has long been known that ultraviolet light has a sterilizing effect, because the radiation damages the virus's genetic material and their ability to replicate.

A key question, however, will be what the intensity and wavelength of the UV light used in the experiment was and whether this accurately mimics natural light conditions in summer.

"It would be good to know how the test was done, and how the results were measured," Benjamin Neuman, chair of biological sciences at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, told AFP.

"Not that it would be done badly, just that there are several different ways to count viruses, depending on what aspect you are interested in studying."

Virus inactivated

Bryan shared a slide summarizing major findings of the experiment that was carried out at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center in Maryland.

It showed that the virus's half-life—the time taken for it to reduce to half its amount—was 18 hours when the temperature was 70 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit (21 to 24 degrees Celsius) with 20 percent humidity on a non-porous surface.

This includes things like door handles and stainless steel.

But the half-life dropped to six hours when humidity rose to 80 percent—and to just two minutes when sunlight was added to the equation.

When the virus was aerosolized—meaning suspended in the air—the half-life was one hour when the temperature was 70 to 75 degrees with 20 percent humidity.

In the presence of sunlight, this dropped to just one and a half minutes.

Bryan concluded that summer-like conditions "will create an environment (where) transmission can be decreased."

He added, though, that reduced spread did not mean the pathogen would be eliminated entirely and social distancing guidelines cannot be fully lifted.

"It would be irresponsible for us to say that we feel that the summer is just going to totally kill the virus and then if it's a free-for-all and that people ignore those guides," he said.

Previous work has also agreed that the virus fares better in cold and dry weather than it does in hot and humid conditions, and the lower rate of spread in southern hemisphere countries where it is early fall and still warm bear this out.

Australia, for example, has had just under 7,000 confirmed cases and 77 deaths—well below many northern hemisphere nations.

The reasons are thought to include that respiratory droplets remain airborne for longer in colder weather, and that viruses degrade more quickly on hotter surfaces, because a protective layer of fat that envelops them dries out faster.

US health authorities believe that even if COVID-19 cases slow over summer, the rate of infection is likely to increase again in fall and winter, in line with other seasonal viruses like the flu.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-sunlight-coronavirus-quickly-scientists.html
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Get ready for the skin cancer pandemic
 
San Marino said:
That is for the current strand of COVID-19. When winter comes, the virus will have changed into a new strand. You will need different antibodies. Plus, New York city population is in constant flux. They will never achieve herd immunity. Hence the vaccine problem. It needs to be updated every year just like the flu vaccine for the year's flu virus. So, scientists are currently playing a catch up game with COVID-19. The virus is about two steps ahead. It could morph into a weaker virus or a stronger virus. It is an RNA sequence, not DNA.

RNA viruses generally have very high mutation rates compared to DNA viruses, because viral RNA polymerases lack the proofreading ability of DNA polymerases. This is one reason why it is difficult to make effective vaccines to prevent diseases caused by RNA viruses - diversity is their strength. The flu virus is also RNA.
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Wow if you hadn't labeled COVID19 as a virus instead of SARS-CoV-2 you might have been able to succeed in creating the false impression you have the slightest clue what's going on, the reason why CoVs are hard to vaccinate is cross-reactionary effects of CoV antibodies which is also the cause of false positive tests, and no vaccines have been developed for CoVs during their past two decades of research and development that have even a short term effectiviness or there would be a common cold vaccine

Please stop sharing misinformation
 
trac209 said:
So according to you looking for a vaccine is useless...
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No. I did not say a vaccine was useless. Vaccines work, but not always 100%. You can see that with the flu vaccine that comes out every year. It is a guessing game by the scientists on which strain of the flu will hit during the winter. Sometimes the vaccine is good and other times it is not. Like I mentioned before, it is a guess and percentages game. RNA mutations in many ways are unpredictable.
 
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