StringJunky

Yeah because that administration aren't relaying verbatim what their experts are telling them, unlike Boris who is clearly just a mouthpiece for them, which is as it should be.

Yeah, a quick wiki tot up suggests that out of 3000 tribes only 19 are nomadic.

It's incredible that people listen to Trump to that extent.

Here you are: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

It would be so much nicer for people and water life if the water was unpolluted and unmolested by outboard motors. I would just allow the gondolas.

I take it there wasn't any significant numbers before?

Pollution down 28% in China. There will probably be more interesting coincidental data gleaned from this crisis.

The virus particles are effectively disassembled, as CharonY said, so how likely will there be any immunologically-recognizable remnants after that process?

Yeah, social kissing is customary there.

It's not intuitive. Another one not intuitive to me is cold bleach, it seems, bleaches better than warm or hot bleach. Edit: Lower concentration increases contact time so that the surface of the microorganisms protein coat is not denatured too quickly such that it prevents more of the alcohol penetrating deeper into them. Superficial denaturing may just initiate dormancy.

Japan seems to be having a relatively low infection rate. An author in Japan Times speculated this might be down to being generally more reserved in social contact behaviour and people who are ill customarily wear face masks, which long predates this issue. They hold their sneezes as well if they can IIRC. They have a high elderly population as well. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/21/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-still-coronavirus-outlier/

I hope you are using it topically and not as a throat spray.

Gilead is trialling remdesivir amongst covd patients. ETA oops...It's not a vaccine, it's an attempt to cure an infection.

A pass on how it refers to other countries but probably that's countries with functioning health systems. CharonY might have an idea of the effect of variables. Demographics seems to be one, with Italy having a large elderly population and higher than is common elsewhere death rate..

Just read the UK medical top brass think it will settle around 1%.

I think herd immunity is the endgame but politically it's a bit of an insensitive/unethical strategy because of the likely unnecessary fatalities entailed in going all out on this approach... it needs to happen in a more graduated way, hence the increasing social distancing, with, hopefully, as minimal serious casualties as possible.

Directly in an equivalent common English phrase, it probably means "It is what is and we can't change it"... C'est ce que c'est et on ne peut pas le changer (from Google Translate). Ours is an expression of resignation. We usually just say "It is what it is"

I only occasionally use it to disinfect when I want fast drying. I mostly use it on clear glass/plastic or removing marks as it leaves no smears.. The stuff I got was 99.9%. Normal disinfection is with good old bleach solution.

At £32/L? That's a cheap one now. According to a chemical retailer the wholesale price has gone up 12x . It looks like I've been ripped off elsewhere on a litre atm which was £8... no show. Not a safe thing to try and buy at this point. I always have it in for glass cleaning etc.

Brass and silver inhibit microorganisms too. Stainless steel and aluminium are the opposite.

OK.

Even if this development phase is too late, the donkey work will be done and it can be modified more straightforwardly if/when it mutates, won't it?

Yep. Gun sales have spiked there as well. It seems they need to protect themselves from their fellow Americans as things get in short supply from panic buying.

Yes, it might be worth splitting off and seeing if it goes anywhere.

I think they lose control of it rather than actually lose it. You might find this interesting: https://slate.com/technology/2016/03/schizophrenia-and-subvocal-speech-why-people-with-schizophrenia-hear-the-voices-of-god-spies-and-supernatural-entities.html