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2020-02-28 at 8:30 PM UTCto prepare for the possibility of COVID-19 coming to your hometown?
I’m thinking maybe I should. It’s easy to say “it’s hundreds of miles away from me, I’ll be ok”. But am I fooling myself?
I was reading about the H1N1 virus. I didn’t realize it affected 59,000,000 people. Thankfully only a little over 12,000 died, could have been much worse. Sure I’d think differently if one of my family members were one of the 12,000.
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2020-02-28 at 8:33 PM UTCno, i'm fucking not.
i don't give a shit if it kills 4,477,800,560 people. still do not give a fuck.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-02-28 at 8:35 PM UTCi give a fuck, the more people it kills the happier i will be
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2020-02-28 at 8:36 PM UTC
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2020-02-28 at 8:39 PM UTCI have good quality respirators, but I feel too self conscious to wear them in public. So far in Dublin I've only seen one person mask up.
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2020-02-28 at 8:43 PM UTCim going to get high on meth and benzos today and get a respirator and wear it around with a shirt that says "corona chan has blessed me with the kiss of death" and creep people the fuck out
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2020-02-28 at 8:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country I have good quality respirators, but I feel too self conscious to wear them in public. So far in Dublin I've only seen one person mask up.
Half mask is silly anyway, because of how contagious it is, it'll easily go in through your eyes and mucous membranes, so your whole face should be covered.
More expensive that way but if you're worried, half isn't going to cut it.
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph240/park2/
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2020-02-28 at 8:49 PM UTC
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2020-02-28 at 8:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country I have good quality respirators, but I feel too self conscious to wear them in public. So far in Dublin I've only seen one person mask up.
Well, I ordered enough respirator masks for my family this morning. I was told the corona has small enough droplets to get through the masks, but I’m sure it can’t hurt. -
2020-02-28 at 9:03 PM UTCI ordered hand sanitizer and picked up some Lysol spray. I saw a doctor on the news this morning say the only people who should wear a mask are the people who are sick.
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2020-02-28 at 9:10 PM UTCWe should all scrub ops ass daily for her
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2020-02-28 at 9:12 PM UTCSee...didn’t have to worry about climate change
We all gonna die now.
Smoke em if ya got em bitches 😎The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-02-28 at 9:13 PM UTCThe area I’m working in right now is on the front line, where people come seeking care for the flu. I’m doing more than just xray now.
With the flu season in full swing here, it’ll be hard to know. I’ll bet people who have this think it’s the flu at first. We do ask if they’ve been out of the country in the last 30 days; but, by the time it gets here it’ll probably come from within the US. Don’t know. Here’s hoping it stays somewhat contained. -
2020-02-28 at 9:15 PM UTC
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2020-02-28 at 9:18 PM UTCCorana-chan just landed in my neck of the woods. I'll take her blessings in stride.
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2020-02-28 at 9:21 PM UTC
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2020-02-28 at 9:34 PM UTChttps://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/copper-kills-viruses-on-contact/3147962.html
Keevil points to studies that compare infection rates at U.S. hospitals that use copper surfaces and those that do not.
"They found that copper alloys gave a 58 percent reduction in infection rate. So that showed, you know, that in the real world of a hospital environment, copper alloys do a great job (in preventing infection)."
In a study published in the journal mBio, Keevil and his team found that copper surfaces can quickly kill the coronavirus 229E.
You may not know coronavirus 229E by name.
But if you ever have had the common cold or the more serious pneumonia, you have been in contact with it.
The coronavirus 229E is also closely related to the pathogen that causes SARS and MERS.
Keevil explains that copper ions – electrically charged molecules – kill dangerous viruses by destroying their genetic material. Copper ions do this by interacting with oxygen and changing the oxygen molecules. As a result, the virus cells cannot mutate.
Most hospitals are not really designed with this in mind. They're more of a death trap. With this new coronavirus, it replicates and sheds duplicate cells so fast, even before the person notices much in the way of symptoms, that you're probably more likely to die going to the hospital. They're basically going to become death camps if this thing mutates and increases its kill rate significantly.
Electrostatic precipitator cleaners with copper or copper alloy collection plates would probably prevent a lot of this stuff spreading, but people are generally dumb -
2020-02-28 at 9:35 PM UTC
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2020-02-28 at 9:36 PM UTC
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2020-02-28 at 9:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by snab_snib and that's a good thing.
There's too many people in the world, so in that sense it may be. Hospitals also have "do not resuscitate" lists, meaning, rather than helping people, they're more concerned with the fact they get to decide whether you live or die if you're on a certain list and dumb enough to think they're going to help you.
Their main purpose is selling drugs and convincing people they're there to help when they're really just there to sell drugs and play god with people's lives.
