StringJunky

You can choose not to act on it. I had a bat in my living room once. It was flying around so fast I couldn't focus on what the issue was... just pure fear. I pulled a coat or something my head, sat on the floor and waited to calm down. I eventually saw it and realized it was more spooked than I was. I watched it for a bit until it went into the fold of a curtain. I coaxed it into a bucket with a book then let it fly off from the window.

They can keep other insects down in ones property. All I see is spiders and something must be around in the house to keep them going... wood lice, earwigs, flies and stuff like that

For the current disease it's uncertain: Yes, that idea is interesting concerning filtering.

But doesn't have to be a secondary infection.

Load at exposure.

On the subject of dose, I saw this recent paper that suggests the severity of the outcome may be tied to initial viral load:

OK cheers.

Could it be East Germans are more likely to snitch on their neighbours and so there's more paranoia there?? Your post reminded of this Reuters article I read today: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-denunciati/germans-snitch-on-neighbours-flouting-virus-rules-in-echo-of-the-stasi-past-idUSKBN21K2PB It's a WAG on my part but it seems plausible in a casual way.

Because he wants to know. People ask stuff because they want to know.

This is a discussion forum.

Covid-19 is the disease and sars-cov-2 is the virus.

As does any person that understands the current science. Spermatozoa and ova are not 'individuals' in the commonly used sense.

You are endowing entities with a property which don't have the equipment to support it. Their behaviour will be wholly biochemically predetermined.

Yes, evolution will do its thing.

No, they knew what they were getting into and don't ignore the problem.

Yes, it's the same mentality that builds on eroding coastlines.

Considering how China was, it is a lot more transparent now and needs to progress at its own rate. I'm sure that regime will change it, if it's feasible to them, in time.

You can't make absolute statements like this. It only takes one counterexample to show it's wrong. It's like saying "All swans are white"

Here's a link to the pdf: http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/research_articles/2020/covid_paper_MEDRXIV-2020-043752v1-Murray.pdf The prediction doesn't tally well with Trump saying that things will be easier at Easter and they all can start going back to work.

Distribution of age groups will be one. Healthcare availability.

I'm thinking of an ultimate, average, projected mortality rate of 1%. The time it takes for each national epidemic to finish may be determined by the transmission rate. Point being that the actual mortality rate is fluid until it's over... you can't say whether one country's death rate is higher than another because that's down to how data is collected in each area. What you are seeing is apparent rates in the moment. A bit like reviewing a football match before it's finished.

Part of it will be timing as they will be on different parts of the transmission trajectory. Another might be the customary level of social contact.

OK. Cheers.

You are not too bad then.

Would prepping rooms with an ozonator be any good for disinfecting rooms before admitting vulnerable people? I know it's not safe whilst in use.