According to our health authorities, fruit and vegetables are ok. Stiil, I wash them as I normally used to do anyway, with water and soap, before storing them. I basically wash everything, but I am used to do it anyway.I also leave shopping bags in a "dirty area" for 1 day.
Thanks. I just washed bananas and oranges with soap and water and rinsed them off. All the glass , plastic, cardboard and other grocery items were cleaned off with Lysol Disinfectant sprayed into a couple of paper towels and wiped off with it. I have to start wearing Nitrile rubber gloves more often. I'm getting homemaker hands.
How to clean your food: https://youtu.be/sjDuwc9KBps
Not quite a normal flu...https://www.facebook.com/mc.somsen.5/videos/2479878538929240/
See the YouTube link I posted on the previous page, the guy is pretty thorough.
My point is that Covid will die out like flu does every year. Regard deaths, that chart of yours only shows 72 days. Flu killed 500,000 worldwide last year, 50,000 in America alone with 34,000,000 infected. Covid-19, as bad as it is, doesn;t seem to be on the same destructive path.
My point is that Covid will die out like flu does every year.
A question: say you were in self-isolation for 14 days. It that period, the symptoms were gradually disappearing, and on day 15-16, you can say you are symptom-free. How long after that you could still be contagious?
You've added predictive virology to your fields of expertise, have you? On what do you base "my point"?Jeremy
The charts for one. They appear to be flattening out, turning a corner. Plus some experts have said deaths seem to be declining in areas that were hit earlier. So based on the curves and time frames in the charts, NYC should level off in a couple of weeks then start going down. So based on those things, my estimate is the whole thing will fade out in 4 or 5 weeks or so.
“It’s very irresponsible for somebody to suggest we can have the best of both worlds,” Gates emphasized in an interview with TED on Tuesday. “What we need is the extreme shutdown, so that in six to 10 weeks, if things go well, then you can start opening back up.”
Bill Gates believes that America needs six to 10 weeks of “extreme shutdown” to get a handle on the coronavirus outbreak (or COVID-19), indirectly criticizing comments from President Trump.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-on-coronavirus-161803530.html
I've attached a screen capture of the current guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In any case, Gates' guess is not much different than mine. I said 4-5 weeks, he said 6-10 weeks. Maybe Les you're right and it will be 2021.
Hopefully, the worst will be over by fall this year.As to the estimated difference between 5 and 10 weeks, if the actual difference turns out as just one one month and the doubling period remains at 8 days, that extra time could inflict 10 times more casualties.
Let's think positive. It's just as easy to do that as to think negative.
You're assuming the rate keeps doubling at the same rate. In NY, Gov Cuomo announced the two day doubling had change to something like 2-3 days than changed again to every 4-5 days. It could reach a point where there are more deaths added to the total but the rate stays the same day to day. Let's think positive. It's just as easy to do that as to think negative. Maybe we've been watching too many walking dead and end of world movies recently.
Thanks, Chris, much appreciated. Based on that, it seems I can get out. But I won't. Not yet.
Easy, yes. But the consequences of being wrong in either case vastly different.
