How a 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Fueled Arson and Harassment in Britain - The New York Times
Fear of the virus appears to effect one's intelligence...
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How a 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Fueled Arson and Harassment in Britain - The New York Times
Fear of the virus appears to effect one's intelligence...
For those that like data with minimal spin... please forgive me if this was posted before.
COVID-19 estimation updates | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
I might have missed this earlier in the thread, but while I was initially not worried about riding through somebody's miasma while out on the trail or something, I am now hearing conflicting reports about how safe running or biking in someone's wake may or may not be.
What's the latest/best info you're hearing? While I probably wouldn't go full mask, I was considering like a stretchy buff or something I could pull over my mug when other riders are up on the trail. Could sew in extra protection or something.
Just don't Zam. Just don't
Now for something completely different.
I have never met a pangolin
I never thought I see one.
If I ever met a pangolin
I would rather see than be one
*If Rudyard Kipling were alive today.
Too soon?
I have a question for everyone. My wife has had pneumonia and severe bronchitis 2 years in a row and I worry more about her than me. We have an opportunity to go to the daughters and son in laws cabin in Waynesville, NC. We would be the only ones there. We are in the middle of the I-4 corridor 1/2 way between TAMPA and Orlando. Cases aren’t high here yet , 242 in the county, but there is a steady climb.
Question 1. Would it be a good idea to drive 10hours to a mountain side retreat?
Question 2. Would it be fair to the people of Waynesville where they have had only a few cases?
Torn on both questions.
MIKE
You missed the part where I said we would be the only ones there, or maybe I was unclear.
Mike
You will still need to go out to buy groceries and the like. It feels like you are doing good by bringing them business, but you may be a silent carrier, so it isn't such a good deal. No as crazy making as it is, the best answer is to shelter in place and use the best hygiene you can to keep your wife, yourself and your whole local community safe and the folks in Waynesville who will not be put at further risk.
You have to make the decision you think is best. There are people where I live who came up from NYC weeks ago, and some who are coming now. I saw a group with masks on taking boxes of food out of the local co-op the other day. My wife told me later that someone working there had tested positive, so I am not sure that leaving the city means you won't get sick. But I can walk around for hours here and not see a soul and my friends in NYC are cooped in their apartments. I have friends in Italy who have been confined to their apartments for five weeks and are looking at several more indoors. That would suck completely. I'd go nuts. So make a considered decision and be as careful as you can be. Figure it out.
FWIW the USA is officially in the lead in total deaths as of today, overtaking Italy.
On the other side of the ledger the daily toll is significantly lower than yesterday's, hopefully that's the start of a downward trend. There has been an anomolously low count every Sunday for the last few weeks so it might be a statistical glitch.
Yes, the scales are used in medicine, but the animals are also eaten for meat. The live animal markets in cultures that eat a wide variety of wild animals are (as you know) hotbeds for viral transfers between animals and people. But cultural identity and food traditions are very difficult to separate, even when they put the animals and the people at risk.
Tonight I cut two varmints (rabbits) into six pieces each, which are marinating in red wine with parsnips, carrots, and fennel. Stock (with the other parts) is simmering with celery, onion, and rosemary, for gravy with mushrooms foraged from the bush.
Walk a mile in somebody else’s shoes, even if they’re plastic crocs, right? There’s another saying about casting stones but it escapes me.
Recent study from U. Eindhoven: http://www.urbanphysics.net/Social%2...hite_Paper.pdf.
A rough algorithm from their data is a safe distance is a minimum of 2 metres + 2 seconds, eg for a person moving at 36 kmh (10ms-1) that distance would be 22 metres
when a person is smoking, think how easily one smells their exhaust and the distances involved. In late Feb / early March, I was at a gas station and smelled cigarette smoke. Looked up and the person had to be at least 50 feet away. It might not be an exact match in terms of particulate Vs droplet movement in the air, but the idea that an aerosol is limited to 6 feet seems like a joke. Maybe the dose at 5m isn't enough to get most people sick, but surely we've all been exposed to a droplet in the air. Advising people to stay 5m apart will make opening society extremely difficult. Even if that is good advise, I highly doubt any government is going to sign-off on that. True, most people aren't breathing hard but if a person is breathing for 15 mins in one place, surely they are impacting the air in a wide area ...
The mechanisms involved are completely different. You can smell odorants from a long distance because they diffuse.
Diffusion is a probabalistic function of the concentration difference and temperature: there's a higher concentration near the source so the chance of a molecule moving away from the source is much higher than that of one moving towards it. This creates a net movement down the concentration gradient. The higher the temperature, the faster the molecules move (that being what temperature is).
A droplet containing a virus is far too large to move very far this way as the thermal motions of the molecules largely cancel out. The remnant is what causes Brownian motion.