It’s ziplock bags all the way down…
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I’m saying that the nooks and crannies problem is only really a problem if you’re touching the nooks and crannies or licking them or breathing from them. A leather steering wheel with perforations is an example of a bad nooks and crannies problem, because you definitely touch the surface that is very difficult to treat. A phone has some hard-to-reach areas, but they are hard-to-reach for your hands, too. And sunlight or UV light is going to be more effective at reaching the seams between materials than wiping it down (short of saturation - which would wreck all but waterproof phones/cases).
And as for C.diff, the problem with the robots is that they don’t deliver high enough intensity to put a dent in C.diff spores. There’s a bit of a threshold effect for bacterial and fungal spores where you can get a 50-90% inactivation rate from low intensity UV but no length of exposure will improve that number. You have to get to very high intensity (the kind of intensity that severely damages most polymers and starts to discolor and embrittlement natural fibers) before you cross the threshold where 3-to-6 log10 reduction kicks in.
ETA: This is a great reason to use earbuds rather than holding the phone up to your face to talk. If you keep it away from your face, you only need to worry about contaminating your hands. If you hold it up to your face, you can be disturbing any viral particles in hollows and unreachable areas and breathing them in. What I’ve been doing to try to keep my earbuds from getting contaminated is to tuck them under my shirt or jacket when I’m not using them.
And, this should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: DON’T SHARE YOUR PHONE!
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Do they make human-sized ziplock bags? I may have to invest in a box of those.
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I’ve traveled up and down China’s east coast, in big cities and “smaller” towns.
Can confirm this.
My impression was that the ratio of smokers in China wrt China’s total population was staggeringly high, or at least way higher than I expected, compared with what I see in the U.S. and what I saw when traveling in Germany, England, the Netherlands in the years previous to my trip to China.
While there, my DH and I had a private joke that if any Chinese male human could see over the store countertop to buy cigarettes, he was certainly able to get them and smoke to his heart’s content (or that of his neuronal nicotinic receptors). Our little joke doesn’t seem so funny now, and I am hoping now more than ever that the Chinese who smoke can quit ASAP for the sake of all who live in and share their immediate breathing-space.
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Zappa does Satumaa.
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According to the news Corona is selling like hotcakes.
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Fucking hell…
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Yes, it’s called hazmat suit but may be difficult to buy right now and isn’t very comfortable.
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I am allowed to buy one every thirty days, with a copay that’s probably five times the cost of manufacture and distribution. Hoarding slowly is a bit of a challenge.
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https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2500114-treatment?src=emailthis
Drugs & Diseases > Infectious Diseases
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment & Management
Updated: Mar 20, 2020
Author
David J Cennimo, MD, FAAP, FACP, AAHIVS Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
David J Cennimo, MD, FAAP, FACP, AAHIVS is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of HIV Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, HIV Medicine Association, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Medical Society of New Jersey, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Specialty Editor Board
Mary L Windle, PharmD Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference
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Chief Editor
Michael Stuart Bronze, MD David Ross Boyd Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Stewart G Wolf Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center; Master of the American College of Physicians; Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London
Michael Stuart Bronze, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, Association of Professors of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Oklahoma State Medical Association, Southern Society for Clinical Investigation
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
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Scientology and the coronavirus: Keeping the orgs open as ‘essential services’
On Monday, we told you that Scientology’s holiest event on the calendar, L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday gala in Florida, was canceled over coronavirus fears.
Then on Wednesday, we reported that Scientologists were being called in to be given a new “briefing” which was actually platitudes from a lecture on atomic radiation given by founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1957.
And throughout this week we’ve been seeing mailers and Facebook postings showing that Scientologists are still being called down to the org to take part in group classes and other activities.
Now, we’ve received evidence that as the concerns of individual Scientologists grow over calls by government officials to “shelter in place” and avoid other people, the church is telling members that the orgs will continue to stay open because they count as “essential services,” like medical facilities or first responders.
Right, because scam quackery by a bad skiffy writer is essential during a medical crisis.
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I foresee a run on coffee.
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Well, it took getting up at 7:00 AM and going to 3 different stores, but I finally found a pack of toilet paper. Whew!
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And many arguing it’s an essential service. :wink-wink:
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And another reminder: wash your hands with soap as often as possible, so that touching your phone is less likely to be life-threatening.
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“Unlikely to make it through a Dem-led Congress.”
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