The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

If a virus could learn the trick of transmitting without a mask, what sort of gain of function research could yield that new ability?

I still think it's best to avoid mask-wearing every possible time.

[Brian Peacock]

If a virus could learn the trick of transmitting without a mask, what sort of gain of function research could yield that new ability?

Aerosol infection through the mucus membrane of the eyeball?

[Cunt]

If a virus could learn the trick of transmitting without a mask, what sort of gain of function research could yield that new ability?

Aerosol infection through the mucus membrane of the eyeball?

Doesn't matter. The way 'gain of function' research works, the researchers don't have to know how a trick is learned, they just note that the trick has been learned.

They usually give it a nudge, by mixing types of animal cells, or such, in a lab setting.

What concerns me, is that it is a giant lab experiment, where the tricks the virus learns won't be simply noted. They'll spread.

If it learns your eyeball trick, for example, then learns to drift on a breeze safely for a few hours, well, things would be different in a hurry.

[Tero]

Finns come out of hibernation. Increase from previous week.
Source: Our World in Data

[JimC]

Spending on a box of masks is getting old. It probably would've been cheaper just to succumb to the crazy completely and walk around in a space suit.

Now they're talking about wearing them into 2022 and beyond...

Get a good, 3-layered cloth one, and wash it in hot soapy water every evening and hang out to dry by morning. That's what we do...

[Tero]

And what does this washing do? If you did not get infected, there is nothing you can catch from the mask the next day. They don't live or multiply on masks. If you blew snot into it, once a week should keep it sanitary.

[NineBerry]

Do you also only charge your underwear once a week?

[Cunt]

Tero's underwear is an ongoing gain-of-function research site. As are everyone's.

[Tero]

Underwear is in good shape. Not like the bachelor underwear that is worn to the end. According to Dave Barry "guys" do not throw out underwear as long as there is one underwear molecule left.

My mask, even though somewhat like underwear, is never washed as it is made of Chinese face mask molecules that easily disintegrate with water. I do have to wear a cloth mask over one model, as it does not qualify according to Trader Joe strict rules, even though surgical face masks falling off the nose do. It's a small grocery store. I buy coffee there. The toucan one or the Joe one:



Sometimes the fair trade one if I feel rich. It is three dollars more

[JimC]

And what does this washing do? If you did not get infected, there is nothing you can catch from the mask the next day. They don't live or multiply on masks. If you blew snot into it, once a week should keep it sanitary.

They get smelly otherwise...

[Cunt]

Fairy data?
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1211092725158096896

Not a single case of the flu has been detected in England so far in 2021 according to public health officials, despite thousands of swabs being tested each week.

[JimC]

Coronavirus has been eating the flu virus!

[Brian Peacock]

Comparing the coronavirus to the flu is understandable, but it's probably more sensible/practical/informative to compare it to something like measles.

[Tero]

Well it's much like the Spanish flu. 20 000 died of it Finland, compared to 700 for this one, and with a couple of million people more. My grandmother was 13 when Spanish flu hit Finland. Never asked her about it.

[Brian Peacock]

Indeed, it's predominantly a respiratory illness. But its infectiousness and lethality put it closer to measles in terms of the public health response.