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Pall Thordarson is a Professor in Chemistry at the University of New South Wales, Sydney

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So why does soap work so well on the Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? The short story: because the virus is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. Soap dissolves the fat membrane and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and dies – or rather, we should say it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive.

Washing the virus off with water alone might work. But water is not good at competing with the strong, glue-like interactions between the skin and the virus. Water isn’t enough.

Soapy water is totally different. Soap contains fat-like substances known as amphiphiles, some of which are structurally very similar to the lipids in the virus membrane. The soap molecules “compete” with the lipids in the virus membrane. This is more or less how soap also removes normal dirt from the skin.

The soap not only loosens the “glue” between the virus and the skin but also the Velcro-like interactions that hold the proteins, lipids and RNA in the virus together.


Alcohol-based products, which pretty much includes all “disinfectant” products, contain a high-percentage alcohol solution (typically 60-80% ethanol) and kill viruses in a similar fashion. But soap is better because you only need a fairly small amount of soapy water, which, with rubbing, covers your entire hand easily. Whereas you need to literally soak the virus in ethanol for a brief moment, and wipes or rubbing a gel on the hands does not guarantee that you soak every corner of the skin on your hands effectively enough.

So, soap is the best, but do please use alcohol-based sanitizer when soap is not handy or practical.

• Pall Thordarson is a professor of chemistry at the University of New South Wales, Sydney

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... infectants

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One of the best articles so far ....

How the Virus got out

The New York Times .... by tracing cell phone movements .... shows how the virus spread rapidly before china or anybody knew it was a pandemic

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... e=Homepage

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WHY IS ITALY HIT SO BAD ??

(Second highest outbreak next to China)

Media says ....

Blah blah blah Italians are old.

Blah blah blah Italians are sick.

Blah blah blah Italians have dirty air.

Blah blah blah Italians are bad at numbers.

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NEVER MENTIONED IS :

Prato, the historical capital of Italy’s textile business, has attracted the largest concentration of Chinese-run industry in Europe within less than 20 years.

As many as 50,000 Chinese live and work in the area, making clothes bearing the prized “Made in Italy” label which sets them apart from garments produced in China itself, even at the lower end of the fashion business.

In some ways, the Chinese community of Prato has succeeded where Italian companies have failed. Italy’s economy has barely grown over the past decade and is only just emerging from recession, partly due to the inability of many small manufacturers to keep up with global competition.

And then there’s the fact that their hospitals are so overwhelmed that the elderly are turned away.

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Make of that what you will.

Guessing that Italy represents the way the United States is going to go is not nearly as good a bet, though; we're on average younger, fewer of us smoke, and our population is more spread out.

source ..... https://pjmedia.com/trending/italy-numb ... CgSJVe8d_g

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Speaking of Italy ....

Police helicopter stalks people who violate the stay-at-home order

VIDEO ... https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9ajRw_1584904248

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Compare that to USA ..... Military & National Guard triggered to distribute (military) stockpiles of medical necessities .... and help critical food and supplies transport to where needed ..... Navy positioning it's hospital ships nears hardest hit Oceanside cities .... talk about good leadership ....

GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!! .... I think the strong measures by Trump will greatly slow the spread .... thus the sooner we get back to normal

Strange how the numbers for the sealed/non indictments and processing equal the projected numbers of covid 19 cases here in the US.


98% tested for covid are coming up flu and not the bug.

2009
the numbers for N1H1 were 275,000+ affected
60,000+ hospitalized
16,000+ dead

No stay at home, no Nasty Guard, No lines for food.

Something is going on behind the smoke screen.

Resigning CEOs 8,000+ from the first of the year, Arrests of celebs and DNC players on going.

celeb with test positives are 2400 times higher then the 'normal' population. Tom Hanks in Federal lockup...

celebs acting crazy on social media....

Boom Q

BOOM! WWG1WGA

this simply had to happen

as for the virus,
in the French University of medicine of Aix/Marseille we have a doctor : Didier RAOULT who has tested the Chloroquine molecule, this is a medicine used by one trillion people to cure malaria with no sides effects
he tested it on 24 people infected by the virus and it worked for 90% on his patients, and he is backed by his researchers an has been working on viruses for 30 years
it is a cheap molecule , and it was used since 1949 ..
the French government said " let's wait" we don't know if there won't be sides effects...
the reality is that all the big companies are trying to invent their own molecule to sell it for trillions of people making trillions dollars .. and 1300 people are dying everyday in the world..
fucking bastards ..
it is interesting to add that 3 months before the crises the Chloroquine molecule can available in France in any pharmacies without any prescription !
the husband of the french minister of health being an enemy of the doctor didier raoult she changed the law and imposed a prescription to get the medicine ... all of this is more then bizarre ...

That's because this virus is a bio weapon. It's all a plan to weaken and or collapse the world economies by the globalists. Too many pieces of the puzzle fit

Hey Muz, there was another utube based on the 'I was only 19' (about Vietnam vets) but has been removed.
I have not seen it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-19/ ... y/12065962

Yeah this pretty much sucks, Everyone at the Big "D" has been put on part time 30 hrs per week. On the bright side it will be 3 10 hour days I will have nice long weekends that I cant go anywhere on.....I guess I will be doing lots of yard maintenance and hangar cleaning, I am not going to start any projects that cost money, but hopefully I can get some good flying in while Gas is cheap.

I was put on layoff today so I am free to do shit tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my biggest concern ... what will happen to the economy .... friends and family unable to work .... bills coming due .... what if all the health care workers either get sick or decide to stay home and save themselves instead of saving everybody else .... things could get scarry.

And for guys like you associated with the airline industry are in an especially difficult position ..... lack of travel has shut down most flights .... airlines had a tough time making a profit as it was and even if the flu issues are solved quickly I doubt world travel will ever fully recover.

Speaking of cheap gas ..... it will likely go much lower .... oil companies are within days of reaching maximum oil storage and if they have to start shutting down the oil wells is scary stuff ..... another huge gut-punch to the economy.

My prediction is the Alberta Canada tar sands will be the first to go .... higher cost of production than sweet crude sources like Bakken in North Dakota.

Hahahahahahahheheheheheh Try not to laugh....

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I expect we will see a lot more of this ...

... WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — More than a fifth of Detroit’s police force is quarantined; two officers have died from coronavirus and at least 39 have tested positive, including the chief of police.

.....Nearly 690 officers and civilian employees at police departments and sheriff’s offices around the country have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an Associated Press survey this week of over 40 law enforcement agencies, mostly in major cities. The number of those in isolation as they await test results is far higher in many places.

....This crisis is unlike any American police forces have dealt with before, said former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.

......“We’re in unprecedented territory here,” said Davis, who led the police department when the Boston Marathon bombing happened in 2013.

......Streets are less crowded as people hunker in their homes. But police must prepare for the possibility of civil unrest among people who become anxious or unhappy about government orders or hospitals that get overrun with patients, he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/officers ... us-police/

I think there is two things at play here. One, they have given the worlds normal flu for this year a name and got the media to run with it... and two, someone is using/testing a biolojical (misspelled on purpose) weapin.... It is not right that many good people like your LEO's and others are falling to it, when other countries are having very few deaths. We have only lost over 75 year olds, no one young and healthy...

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Encouraging news IF we can trust China reports .... total cases so far 81439 ... with 75448 who have recovered ... and "only" 3300 fatal ... which is "only" about 4% .... (The 2003 SARS outbreak was 15% fatal)

TRIVIA ..... SARS was much more deadly but not easily transmitted (had to be droplets - sneezing , coughing etc) ... and the virus itself was not very "hardy" ... did not live very long on surfaces ... and anyone who caught it was sick right away

Difference is Coronavirus is very contagious , spreads easily , and virus can live on surfaces for a long time and has already killed a lot more people than SARS ... another big problem with recent Coronavirus is people can be infected for a long time without showing symptoms and keep spreading it.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ ... -outbreaks

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Below is a Screen capture of latest numbers .... USA now has most cases .... looks scary but the "best" way to compare is ratio of deaths per million population eg:

ITALY ..........166 ...deaths per million (so far)
SPAIN .........128 ...deaths per million (so far)
IRAN ............30 ....deaths per million (so far)
UK ...............15 ....deaths per million (so far)
USA .............. 7 ....deaths per million (so far)
CHINA ........... 2 ....deaths per million (so far)
CANADA ........ 2 ....deaths per million (so far)
Australia ..... .06 ....deaths per million (so far)

Denmark (rcflier) .... total cases 2201 .... recovered 1 ...... deaths 65 ..... rate of 11 deaths per million


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Guam (Henry Bowman's Island) only showed 3 cases back on March 15 but now is up to about 45 .... some of those numbers may be from a USA Navy ship which docked there March 26 to test 5000 sailors and has up to 12 cases onboard

If Corona knew Henry was on the Island that Virus would not dare set foot there .... HAAA .... stay safe Benry

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MadMuz .... love those parody-music videos ... perfect !!!!

When you think of it takes a lot of music talent ..... plus they make them almost overnight ..... no big record producers required.

Breaking Bad...Walter Wipe


https://youtu.be/xyIzhRvtIJ0
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