Normally I would just roll my eyes at this, but I will not put anything past this bastardly bug.
Thatâs the one! Thanks.
Note that they definitely rule out alcohol and chlorine, but also had doubts about EtO and vaporous hydrogen peroxide due to modification of the micro structures of the filter.
âSterilizationâ is a word rarely used in these kinds of studies because it is extremely difficult to measure experimentally. The technical definition is 10^6 reduction of the target pathogen, or reduction of one million organisms per sample compared to the control. Thatâs difficult enough to inoculate a sample with that much bacteria and still recover that much on the control, much less with a virus. The recovered bacteria will grow on their own on a growth medium. Virus recovered from a sample have to be grown in cells or have to be detected directly. Designing an assay that is sensitive down to 10^-6 and still quantified at control levels is crazy difficult. The best Iâve seen is sensitive down to about 5x10^-5
Tl;dr âdecontaminationâ vs âsterilizationâ is more of a limit of the experimental methods than a limit of the treatment technique.
Well, this is all going extremely wellâŠ
Takei or Archer? Takei or Archer?
HowâŠpresidential.
(remembering what that was likeâŠoh, so long ago.)
Truly a decent human being.
And here his is - just barely out of the hospital after breaking his hip - at 95 years old- thinking of others.
Most of the English 2019-20 football season (everything not in the Premier Leage. EFL and National League) has been cancelled. All the teams that were likely to be promoted are not happy about this.
About the only solution that I can think of is to cancel the 2020-21 season and finish this season next year. It doesnât solve the problem of contracts expiring at the end of June, but I donât think there is a legal and ethical solution for that.
St. Jimmyâs gonna do what St. Jimmyâs gonna do.
Long may he live!
Never a huge fan of Newsom, but I certainly donât envy him now, or what he has to now do for the good of his State.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/gavin-newsom-coronavirus/index.html
One quibble:
Newsom was at the forefront on other progressive issues, including tackling homelessness in San Francisco throughout his tenure as mayor
The only thing he tackled as mayor was his chief of staffâs wife. He ran on a punitive proposition that massively cut funding for homeless with the promise of âservicesâ that never materialized because they were never budgeted.
Putting lie to the phrase âonly the good die youngâ!
Heâs the oldest President ever. Eat more peanuts?
Do good things in service to people less fortunate than yourself.
Lockdown ainât easy. And thatâs without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house
It isnât like the teams at the bottom of the Premier League were going to get relegated quietly. The interconnections between all the leagues â not only promotion and relegation, but also international competitions and the player transfer window â makes this a very complicated proposition. (My wife, a huge Leicester fan, is convinced that this is going to screw Leicester by eliminating their European hopes this year, while by next year all their best players will have been poached by the rich teams.)
In the US weâve solved this problem by playing our major sports in self-contained bubbles.
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A Church in the suburbs of Rio opens the door to solidarity.
Parish in Vaz Lobo offers daily meals and bath to help around 50 homeless people. They are asking for donations (groceries, grains meat etc.) to keep their work.
Rio - In the midst of chaos, hope. A Catholic church in the Vaz Lobo neighborhood, in the North Zone of Rio, opts for a path contrary to the pandemic: instead of closing the doors, the temple opened as a form of solidarity.
Every day, in ParĂłquia Cristo Rei, the priests offer lunch, bathing and new clothes for about 50 homeless people that roam in the region.