Corona Virus May Hit Argentina Hard

[Iznogud]

Would you bet your life on any past, present or future argentine government?


Don't drink the Kool Aid!

Iz

 

[steveinbsas]

The Guardian actually says "no" but Lindsay Broadbent says “If you’re touching unclean surfaces with gloves and then touching your face, you might as well not wear them at all,” she says. Gloves would work only if you changed them and washed them as methodically as you wash or sanitise your hands. “Otherwise they’re like a second skin.”
It may seem like a fine point, but it says to me that if you don't touch your face and you do change and wash the gloves then there's some protection there. It seems better to grab a door handle, open a door, grab a rail, push an elevator button or key in your code at an ATM with a covered hand that you could also charge with a sanitizing chemical and wash later, rather than all those contacts direct contact with your skin. Plus, it's a natural habit to touch your face with your bare hand. If you've got a glove on, you're more likely to think twice before touching your face with a glove.

In my opinion, the ONLY gloves that would help prevent catching ANY virus are the disposable latex type (aka Guantes De Nitrilo which are cheap when purchased in quantity). They really should be discarded after using ONCE in public, turning them inside out as you take them off and dropping them in a waste basket. then spraying them (inside the basket) with Lysoform and never using or touching them again.

In public I think it's better to carry around a small bottle of hand sanitizing gel that you can (hopefully, still) buy in most drugstores as I believe it's easier to sanitize you hands with the gel (immediately after using an ATM, for example) than try to sanitize any gloves, especially cloth ones (even if you used bleach). Besides, why would anyone want to even handle gloves that have potentially been contaminated?

 

[on the brink]

Fabric gloves might be sanitized with few minutes in the microwave, or an hour in the freezer.

I used the freezer method to get rid of larvae from a moth infestation - they were eating through my Peruvian textiles. Worked fine.

 

[MilHojas]

The Guardian actually says "no" but Lindsay Broadbent says ... Gloves would work ...

Can gloves help? Lindsay Broadbent, a virologist at Queen’s University Belfast, says no.

Again,

Lindsay Broadbent says no. Period.
Then she explains why it does not make any sense.

 

[MilHojas]

Fabric gloves might be sanitized with few minutes in the microwave, or an hour in the freezer.

Do freezing conditions kill flu bacteria?

Answer (1 of 7): No. 1. Flu is caused by viruses, not bacteria. 2. Bacteria survive rapid freezing; but freeze-thaw cycles usually kill them. 3. Freezing cells in water damages them more than does freezing in liquid nitrogen (-80 deg C); the latter type of storage is a method for preserving them...

www.quora.com

 

[perry]

Do freezing conditions kill flu bacteria?

Answer (1 of 7): No. 1. Flu is caused by viruses, not bacteria. 2. Bacteria survive rapid freezing; but freeze-thaw cycles usually kill them. 3. Freezing cells in water damages them more than does freezing in liquid nitrogen (-80 deg C); the latter type of storage is a method for preserving them...

www.quora.com

Mil Hojas I have noticed that the coronvirus is less prevalent in warmer countries . Do you believe that the warm weather protects from the virus ?

 

[MilHojas]

Mil Hojas I have noticed that the coronvirus is less prevalent in warmer countries . Do you believe that the warm weather protects from the virus ?

Even if it lives OK inside of a body of a person who has a fever?

Basically, nobody knows at this point. Some people claim that there is a correlation, but it is not necessarily because of properties of the virus itself. May be in colder countries people are more susceptible because they are weakened by regular deceases. May be it is because world population is concentrated in the northern hemisphere and it is still winter there.

 

[artisans]

From the government of Buenos Aires:
CORONAVIRUS
Due to the changing dynamics of countries that have cases of coronavirus, the City now has a specialized call center, such as SAME 107, to provide assistance to neighbors. If you have a fever, sore throat, cough, mucus, shortness of breath, shortness of breath and also traveled to a country where the virus circulates or had contact with a patient, call 107 free and you will be treated by a group of specialists They will inform you what are the steps to follow.

 

[notebook.fix]

Corona..the perfect scapegoat. Markets are plunging in Asia. https://www.cnbc.com/asia-markets/

 

[Lonelysap]

For all people that want some behind the GReat Firewall Wuhan Virus Updates- Disclaimer -Very disturbing stuff... Has english subtitles - also english news updates