Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

[hank]

Eventually it all ends up as microplastics in the ocean, and in the fish, and, yep, in whoever eats the fish.

The average person eats thousands of plastic particles every year, study finds

Eventually some bacterium will find a way to consume this stuff.

[LEDicrous]

@klrman

I just had a silly thought for a cartoon sketch depicting a spaceship flying to mars crammed full of world leaders and them beaming back a message to earth  …… “don’t worry, everything is fine, we’re in this together”.

You have been heard

[BurningPlayd0h]

@CNCman

The virus is AIRBORNE, and if you live in a building with hundreds of other people and share the same heating and air conditioning system, breathing the same air, then you are at great risk. This is why it is not getting better in Italy.

This is patently false.

who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

Droplet and aerosol/airborne transmission are very different, and COVID-19 is only confirmed to be transmittable via the former.

[tempo]

Thomas Bach has posponed the Olympic Games 2020 by 4 weeks!

https://www.olympic.org/athlete365/voice/22-march-letter-president-thomas-bach-athletes/

[alpg88]

a friend of mine works in a hospital in nyc, they were told face shields are not available, anyone is free to improvise and get their own, so i designed and printed, a headpiece that one can attach a clear shield to, that are freely available from any binding supply store, 10-15mil clear plastic book cover that is flexible and rigid enough to be used as shield, a cut up plastic bottle can work too, the plastic can be either attached by double stick tape or with paper crocodile style clips.

[hank]

breathing the same air, then you are at great risk.

NOPE. You can look this stuff up. Which is a good thing to do when you read something scary — check on it, don’t just rebunk it.

The aerosol can float in the air for a while, but maybe not in concentration sufficient to infect.

So let’s help you out. Put the key words into a Google search, like this:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=coronavirus+aerosol+transmission

That search finds among much else

The new coronavirus can likely remain airborne for some time. That doesn’t...

Now there are conflicting reports on whether the new coronavirus can. The studies suggesting that it can be aerosolized are only preliminary, and other research contradicts it, finding no aerosolized coronavirus particles in the hospital rooms of Covid-19 patients.

The weight of the evidence suggests that the new coronavirus can exist as an aerosol — a physics term meaning a liquid or solid (the virus) suspended in a gas (like air) — only under very limited conditions, and that this transmission route is not driving the pandemic. But “limited” conditions does not mean “no” conditions, underlining the need for health care workers to have high levels of personal protection ….
…
… “If it could easily exist as an aerosol, we would be seeing much greater levels of transmission,” said epidemiologist Michael LeVasseur of Drexel University. “And we would be seeing a different pattern in who’s getting infected. With droplet spread, it’s mostly to close contacts. But if a virus easily exists as an aerosol, you could get it from people you share an elevator with.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that is not happening. Earlier this month, CDC scientists reported that the rate of symptomatic infection among a patient’s household members was 10.5. The rate among other close contacts was 0.45. In the case of one particular patient, none of his five household members, although continuously exposed to the patient during the time he was isolated at home, tested positive for the virus.

[djozz]

@hank

Eventually it all ends up as microplastics in the ocean, and in the fish, and, yep, in whoever eats the fish.
The average person eats thousands of plastic particles every year, study finds

Eventually some bacterium will find a way to consume this stuff.

Meanwhile at the bottom of the Mariane Trench…

[Joshk]

@hank

Eventually it all ends up as microplastics in the ocean, and in the fish, and, yep, in whoever eats the fish.
The average person eats thousands of plastic particles every year, study finds

Eventually some bacterium will find a way to consume this stuff.

That would be bad. Our cars, phones, TVs, tools, and everything made of plastic would get infected and begin to rot from the day it was made.

[Lightbringer]

Those bacteria already exist, but they’re just not out in the wild… yet.

[Joshk]

[BurningPlayd0h]

I don’t think we have to worry about plastic eating bacteria anytime soon:

The wild-type bacterium is able to colonize and break down a thin (0.2 mm thickness) film of low-crystallinity (soft) PET in approximately six weeks

[SKV89]

Facemasks and respirators especially high quality rated ones are near impossible to buy right now. Fireflies is trying to source face masks and respirators for us.

Fireflies offering Facemasks and N95 Respirators

While chatting with Fireflies, Jack was very kind to offer some face masks to include with my package. I asked if he can find some Level 3 or N95 face masks and offer them on his website, which would help so many people where facemasks and respirators, especially real Level 3 and N95 rated ones, are near impossible to find or extremely expensive due to supply and demand. The price is only going to go up at a very rapid rate given the world wide shortage. He agreed to help and said he would like…

[Lightbringer]

Give ’em time…

[MtnDon (Don Miller)]

Hey! Traffic fatalities should be down! Gotta find a bright side……

[raccoon]

Yep, according to the local news there is very little traffic in L.A. or on the I-10.

And I've seen video of NYC.

It's pretty quiet on the street there as well.

[CheapThrills]

@hank

breathing the same air, then you are at great risk.

NOPE. You can look this stuff up. Which is a good thing to do when you read something scary — check on it, don’t just rebunk it.

The aerosol can float in the air for a while, but maybe not in concentration sufficient to infect.

So let’s help you out. Put the key words into a Google search, like this:

coronavirus aerosol transmission - Google Search

That search finds among much else

The coronavirus likely can remain airborne. It doesn’t mean we’re doomed

Now there are conflicting reports on whether the new coronavirus can. The studies suggesting that it can be aerosolized are only preliminary, and other research contradicts it, finding no aerosolized coronavirus particles in the hospital rooms of Covid-19 patients.

The weight of the evidence suggests that the new coronavirus can exist as an aerosol — a physics term meaning a liquid or solid (the virus) suspended in a gas (like air) — only under very limited conditions, and that this transmission route is not driving the pandemic. But “limited” conditions does not mean “no” conditions, underlining the need for health care workers to have high levels of personal protection ….
…
… “If it could easily exist as an aerosol, we would be seeing much greater levels of transmission,” said epidemiologist Michael LeVasseur of Drexel University. “And we would be seeing a different pattern in who’s getting infected. With droplet spread, it’s mostly to close contacts. But if a virus easily exists as an aerosol, you could get it from people you share an elevator with.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that is not happening. Earlier this month, CDC scientists reported that the rate of symptomatic infection among a patient’s household members was 10.5. The rate among other close contacts was 0.45. In the case of one particular patient, none of his five household members, although continuously exposed to the patient during the time he was isolated at home, tested positive for the virus.

Good thing that someone posts corrections. Thanks.

[klrman]

@LEDicrous

@klrman

I just had a silly thought for a cartoon sketch depicting a spaceship flying to mars crammed full of world leaders and them beaming back a message to earth … “don’t worry, everything is fine, we’re in this together”.

You have been heard !https://i.imgur.com/1gd4VbH.jpg!

Haha, thanks for that. I was trying to sketch it myself today but drawing isn't one of my talents.

[hank]

I once heard from a fellow grad student that he had worked with a professor trying to select for a bacterium that would eat DDT.
Usual way — take a lot of bacteria, add a bit of DDT. See what survives, take a sample of that one, grow more of them, add a bit more DDT.
Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s a method called “mass selection”

They got a strain that would live happily on DDT.

Unfortunately it was also capable of living on polyvinyl chloride, PVC, the insulation used on phone and electrical lines and for many other purposes.

They sterilized the culture and moved to another project.

As mentioned above, Mother Nature is repeating this selection procedure on all the plastic crap we’ve scattered around the world.

[Macka17]

Self check out has been the go for a few yrs now in Aust.
Agree with.
NO
Only because of staff reducing possibilities.
BUT in todays environment. A SUPER good idea.

Gloves ON. Goods in trolley. Through checkout to car.
Load into REUSABLE PLASTIC Bags
Which have also been used for same period of time virtually.

THE secret is.
DO NOT OVERLOAD. 1\2 to 2\3rds full and weight restricted is the key.
I’ve only broken 2 bags. one, a sharp item slit the side.
Tóther the handle let go cause Ï”Overloaded”. then tugged to get out from bundle of,
in car boot.
15c AUD Each to buy.

[CheapThrills]

I always use only plastic bags. I need them for garbage disposal and also to take other plastics to recycling. On average I use them 2-4 times before end use. I don´t take them again to shop though…