"Waste not, want not." I'm good at stretching things, too. But I couldn't find hand sanitizer when I started looking for it. No matter, in my situation soap and water's fine, for my hands, anyway. They say it's more effective than hand sanitizer, at least for disinfecting your hands.Started this with an already-sputtering bottle of Purell Advanced hand sanitizer but finally got to the same point with one of my generic Kroger bottles that I bought for the outbreak.
If you're like me then you are annoyed by the large amount of hand sanitizer left behind when a bottle sputters and stops dispensing. I used a bit of my 99.9% isopropyl (PUREtronics Electronics Cleaning Grade) to loosen it up and liquefy enough pour it into a near-full bottle where mixing it makes it gel again. I realized that this slightly increases the potency as well, so you might want to add a bit in to stretch your bottles too.
Since then I redistributed the remaining sanitizer back into the empty bottles so I can have them in more places (door, kitchen, living room, each car, etc), which removed the need to ever add alcohol (for now), but I still figured I'd share for anyone else trying to make use of the remnants.
There is an excellent article out there titled "The Hammer and the Dance" that explains how China and South Korea were both able to tame an epidemic in less than 2 months time. It argues that other countries (i.e. current crisis centers of western Europe and the U.S.) can also act similarly now, but that ongoing vigilance is required even after returning to normal life.Yeah I think it's going to help but as soon as everything gets back to normal we'll just see more cases. Really a tough spot to figure out the right balance. Personally I think we should go with this social distancing thing for a month or two, then slowly ease back to normal life and open stuff but keep restricting out of town travel (that's kinda hard to enforce but it can at least be a huge recommendation). Then slowly allow that but only within the same province, then within the country. I say restrict international for at least a year if more and that is easier to enforce. Other than essential stuff like product shipments etc, which even now are not restricted. That kinda has to keep going.
Thing is, for this to work every country needs to be onboard as well. Not easy to do. And even then, it only takes 1 case to slip through and we're back to square one.
Didn't work out so well for Hong Kong:
Counties and states are saying liquor stores are "essential business and services" while shutting down factories like Tesla Fremont plant from operating.
I think at certain point, we need to ask ourselves and start having conversations about how much do we let this fear of the virus control us. We all need to get back to work at some point or else there won't be an economy to go back to work even if we're healthy.
You find me a stoner who got stupid, got into a car and killed someone.
Ill just remind everyone that Russia has effectively declared war on the west.At this rate, the US is going to need a country to invade to get the economy going again.
Ill just remind everyone that Russia has effectively declared war on the west.
We already more than have our hands full. In fact, everyone does. No time for a war!Great time for a war. Maybe we'll get a better reboot of Red Dawn this time around?
Great, I had managed to completely forget that they rebooted it.Great time for a war. Maybe we'll get a better reboot of Red Dawn this time around?
We already more than have our hands full. In fact, everyone does. No time for a war!
Great, I had managed to completely forget that they rebooted it.
Yeah. I'm using bar soap or dish detergent any time I can get to a sink but I've been sick this last week and couldn't throw the cat off me every time I sneezed or blew my nose (every few minutes for a while there)."Waste not, want not." I'm good at stretching things, too. But I couldn't find hand sanitizer when I started looking for it. No matter, in my situation soap and water's fine, for my hands, anyway. They say it's more effective than hand sanitizer, at least for disinfecting your hands.
Someone's sarcasm detector is broken.
I also think extensive testing and contact tracing is the key to defeating this virus while not destroying your economy. You need to test so you can know who's infected. Then you need to isolate that person away from the general population. But without extensive testing, you're operating blind and don't know who's infected.There is an excellent article out there titled "The Hammer and the Dance" that explains how China and South Korea were both able to tame an epidemic in less than 2 months time. It argues that other countries (i.e. current crisis centers of western Europe and the U.S.) can also act similarly now, but that ongoing vigilance is required even after returning to normal life.
Specifically, what South Korea is doing extremely well is testing and contact tracing, then isolating the infected and at-risk away from the general population. That is the only way to stop an epidemic. The emergency lockdown measures being taken in western Europe and parts of the U.S. are all we have got now, but will not end the epidemic if robust testing and tracing are not implemented in the summer months.
Israeli doctor in Italy: No. of patients rises but we get to everyone
Dr. Gai Peleg told Israeli television that in northern Italy, patients over 60 tend to receive less treatment with anesthesia and artificial respiratory machines.www.jpost.com
i wonder what's going to happen when/if that starts to happen here?
Will chloroquine phosphate be the answer that Trump hopes? Maybe, maybe not.
Man dies ingesting chloroquine phosphate. Self medicating can be very dangerous. You have to be careful.
Avoid untested COVID-19 meds: health officials after man ingests Trump-touted drug, dies - National | Globalnews.ca
U.S. President Donald Trump caused a stir last weekend when he touted chloroquine as a possible treatment for virus victims.globalnews.ca
Yes lets just take a random dose of an untested medication. Darwin in action folks. Trump please take this drug as well.
It's fine to do a clinical trial. The initial observation that led to this line of treatment discussion was at most hypothesis-generating and needed a much more robust trial to actually see if there was an effect.Looks like New York is going to give Trump's cocktail a trial.
They have acquired.
750,000 doses of chloroquine
70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine
10,000 doses of Zithromax
New York To Begin Clinical Trials For Coronavirus Treatment Tuesday, Cuomo Says
750,000 doses of chloroquine, 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine and 10,000 doses of Zithromax were acquired by New York state for the trial.www.forbes.com
The peak potentially passing in Italy is good news, however it doesn't really address what to do about a long-term lock down. It just shows lock-down is working.
Now imo, a ton of testing is being done in NYC in attempt to statistically prove we are "overreacting" to the virus. If the NYC CFR rate ends up <0.5%, I think the majority of lock-downs will be lifted by May and boomers will be told to stay home as medical production ramps up. That should at least "save" the economy (would take at least a year to get back to where it was before imo).
I doubt that we will get back to normal financially any time soon. We will get there, but pre 2020? No. Not immediately. Not even a year .This could take 2-3 years, even longer. Especially if this virus lingers. TBH, I think jobs are going to be lost, and never recovered. Certain businesses may never recover. People might lose their homes, cars, etc. It estimated that 74% of Americans are paycheck to paycheck. This event ain't helping and will pull many familes under unless they have a large emergency fund. By large I mean $10k or more. Hell. Many people don't even have a few thousand in the bank. Living on credit. That is most of America.