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Nursing homes have been a mass incubator for Covid-19 among the elderly. Maybe attention should be given to ventilation. Perhaps it would be better to have exhaust vents near the floor and fresh air is introduced into the room through the ceiling? Clearly ventilation systems are suspect. Just increasing the air flow would replace the virus air with cleaned air in about a minute. Theaters, restaurants, and offices can boast of having an accelerated air replacement system to reduce chance for virus to hang around too long. Then in your opinion it would be more efficient to exhaust bad air through vents near the floor and introduce UV treated/filtered air into the room from the ceiling?

Here is the idea. If an air conditioner was powerful enough, with intake and exhaust designed properly, you can remove Coronavirus (or any virus) from the air by the A/C moving the air faster than normal in an upward direction. You want the air to circulate so fast that if someone sneezes the water droplets will remain inside the room only a few seconds before it is sucked out the ceiling vent. For cooling the room, the idea is cool air enters the room near the floor and the warmer air exits through a ceiling vent, the "return." For heating the room you would also introduce warm air through low floor-vents, then the exhaust exits through the return in the ceiling. The exhaust air is either expelled to the exterior, or recirculated through an ANTI-VIRUS filter with maybe UV light to kill ANY virus before the air enters the room through the floor intake. The next pandemic could be an even nastier virus than Coronavirus.

On a popular science program, "infinitely" small is just a figure of speech, not to be taken literally. I should have known. As to the idea that the universe began from a "point" that was "infinitely small"...well it seems to me it could just as well started with a diameter of a googol light years, and was shaped like Crusty the Clown.

Right, so when a number of scientists on the show "How the Universe Works" say that the universe started "infinitely" small POINT, from a singularity, that is WRONG. Nobody knows anything about "infinitely small." All anyone knows is the universe, that we can see, started from a hotter, denser state. We have no clue how large, or what shape, the big bang was at the earliest moments. It could have started from a huge, irregular shape from the very beginning. Nothing can be infinitely small.

The latest I heard about Coronavirus is that this can keep coming back until there is a vaccine. Is it correct to say it is 3x as contagious as the flu and 10x as deadly? Remember Rush Limbaugh saying "The democrats will weaponize Coronavirus!" I hope so, since Trump weaponizes everything, all day, every day. The Dems need to fight back by weaponizing things the way Trump does, or lose the election. Just heard in the news, Trump bragged about the high ratings of his daily "mini-rallys" for Coronavirus updates. He makes his pitch, hard and heavy, then turns it over to Pense, who tells us what a great job the pes is doing, and then lastly the doctors who give some facts. Trump is pushing his daily briefing pep talks later and later into prime time. How can ANY Democrat beat someone so clever and so devious? Here is Trump's tweet, weaponizing Coronavirus. "Because the “Ratings” of my News Conferences etc. are so high, “Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers” according to the @nytimes, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY. “Trump is reaching too many people, we must stop him.” said one lunatic. See you at 5:00 P.M.!"

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Is there anything to fear walking one's dog if you keep a good distance from other people and dogs? Dogs are attracted to the scent of urine of other dogs. Can dogs get Covid9-19 from another dog by smelling where the other dog urinated? The other question is can dogs get Coronavirus from people, and vice versa?

"State of emergency.....state of emergency I've never seen such urgency Forever we will strive....forever we will strive.... Never seen anything like this before How long can this go on?"

Thanks for posting that zapatos! That is a nice version I had never heard before. In the 1982 movie "Countryman," during the fight scene, where Countryman defends himself against the corrupt cops that were ambushing him, using his staff martial arts, they played this song, Bam Bam, by Toots.

The following song "Tropic Vibe" by Rankin Scroo and Ginger has a long history for me. I first discovered reggae music the year after Bob Marley died in 1981. Spinning the radio dial, on a Sunday afternoon, I stumbled upon Roger Steffens and Hank Holmes show the Reggae Beat. Every Sunday afternoon my spiritual retreat was tuning into their show and eventually recording their entire 4-hour, then 2-hour show and later selecting out my few favorite songs on cassettes that I listened to on my Walkman while I commuted to and from work on the bus, through downtown LA. This song, Tropic Vibe, was a favorite that I played over and over again, never tiring of it. Hank Holmes played it on his show in 1985, but he misidentified it as a song by Sahra Indio, who once did a version of this song. After I lost my cassette tape with Tropic Vibe I searched Sahra Indio and found her web site. She even had the lyrics to Tropic Vibe, which I copied and saved. But the song was not there. I contacted her asking about her song Tropic Vibe but she didn't know where I could find it. She suggested that it was actually Rankin Scroo and Ginger. I later searched YouTube but could not find this song. EIGHT years later I was trashing old emails, saving certain ones. I found Sahra Indio's email to me suggesting the song was Rankin Scroo and Ginger. Again I searched YouTube and FOUND IT!! I notified Sahra Indio that I found the song and she expressed joy at this discovery, thanking me. She asked it I knew of a "dub" version of it (instrumental version) that she could record her voice over. Anyhow here is the song I was chasing for 3 decades. I had a dream of the ocean blue Sweet and warm always there for you She's so happy, She's so lovely, She's so free And in my traveling I find I need Her WAVES just to sooth my mind Cuz I'm neva, no not ever, never at ease This country is very, very nice, but it's not the place for I Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say Good to know I have a resting place in the sun Yeah in the sun And everywhere is so very bright Shining clear it's no ordinary light Majesty and power, give it to She And in the night I would sit on Her shore Trying to give but I'm always taking more Of Her magic and Her beauty, all Her mystery These mountains are very very fine But I could neva be satisfied Till I am barefoot once again Laughing in the sun with you my friend In the sun....yeah in the sun Instrumental These mountains are very very fine But I could neva be satisfied Till I am barefoot once again Laughing in the sun with you my friend In the sun.....yeah in the sun....where I and I from Tropic vibe, don't you be scared, where I and I from Let me take you there Tropic vibe, don't you be scared, where I and I from Let me take you there Juice from the mango, milk from the coconut Tropic vibe is the vibe I really love Juice from the mango, milk from the coconut Tropic vibe is the vibe I really love Love I love I love....de tropic vibe Love I love I love yeah Love I love I love....de tropic vibe Love I love I love it yeah

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When you listen to "Tropic Vibe" read the lyrics below. It is a Hawaiian-reggae record from 1985. Ginger is singing for Rankin Scroo. I had a dream of the ocean blue Sweet and warm always there for you She's so happy, She's so lovely, She's so free And in my traveling I find I need Her waves just to sooth my mind Cuz I'm neva, no not ever, never at ease This country is very, very nice, but it's not the place for I Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say Good to know I have a resting place in the sun Yeah in the sun And everywhere is so very bright Shining clear it's no ordinary light Majesty and power, give it to She And in the night I would sit on Her shore Trying to give but I'm always taking more Of Her magic and Her beauty, all Her mystery These mountains are very very fine But I could neva be satisfied Till I am barefoot once again Laughing in the sun with you my friend In the sun....yeah in the sun Instrumental These mountains are very very fine But I could neva be satisfied Till I am barefoot once again Laughing in the sun with you my friend In the sun.....yeah in the sun....where I and I from Let me take you there Tropic vibe, don't you be scared, where I and I from Let me take you there Juice from the mango, milk from the coconut Tropic vibe is the vibe I really love Juice from the mango, milk from the coconut Tropic vibe is the vibe I really love Love I love I love....de tropic vibe Love I love I love yeah Love I love I love....de tropic vibe Love I love I love it yeah

Life can spread only to suitable habitats. Life cannot avoid extinction, when extinction is an outside force. The dinosaurs could not avoid that asteroid. Life will evolve to adapt and survive. Humans evolved dramatically. But sharks, cockroaches, and many microbes never needed to evolve hardly at all.

Not all food is medicine. Some is poison, and other not helpful. Not all "foods" are good fuel or even have medicinal properties (e.g. sugar, salt, fat). In fact, if life eats the wrong food that life may either die or be weakened. That will interfere with life's ability to continue to live. How many of us are life that is weakened? Which brings us back to my signature, "Tax Junk Foods."

Yes "Just try and not die," but also try to avoid injury, and eat healthy food, while you're at it. We are how we eat. Food is medicine.

Just try your best. Only you know what your best is. I have made wrong choices many, many times in my life. Trump would call me a "loser" because of it. To lose is not to be a loser. Each time, I do my best to recover and get better, somehow, in some way. That is all any form of life can do is live and try their best at survival.

Exactly. The purpose of life is to live. Then, suppose that life can get a little better at living, that will enhance it's ability to continue living and leave behind progeny. To get better is to live, supercharged. Sorry that "purpose" is a meaningless term in science, but many people think in simple terms, such as myself.

I have a correction to make. I suggested that evolution is an example of life changing, through mutation, in effect to adapt better to a changing environment. "Getting better" as evolution is only half the story of life. Life endeavors to survive and reproduce. Sharks and cockroaches have not evolved much but they survived over 100 million years almost unchanged. Life does not always need to evolve to survive. Right?

The question is what is the purpose of life in general, not what the human purpose for life is. I don't know, but it looks to me like life endeavors to survive by respiration, eating and drinking, and avoiding being eaten or injured, and staying at a comfortable temperature, and eventually procreate to leave genetic replicas. If life can adapt to more environments it can be more successful at leaving progeny.

Improvement, in itself, is enough success and happiness. So you get better, why not try to get even better? Or better at something else? If you don't get better, big deal, just try some other way to get better. What's not to relax about a job well done? If you become the best then just try to beat your best. But don't worry if you can't. It's no big deal. When I jog my neighborhood 4 km almost every morning, the same route, I time myself. Sometimes my time is better than others. Depends on how much effort I try. I don't care how much I try, but I like to try. My best time was under 24 minutes, and usually I do it in 25 to 27 minutes.

This is a serious question. I'd like to know how you would answer this in a few words. My answer to the question is the purpose of life is to get better, in a few words. "To get better" is evolution, adaption, and survival. If you get sick, your purpose is to get better. If you do well in anything, the purpose is to get better.

Game of Thrones. Some argue the ending was wrong, but I disagree. The ending was as unpredictable as I could imagine. Arya Stark was the hero, saving the world of the living from the world of the dead.