Coronavirus and Pandemics

It’s odd that a Budweiser brewery would be making hand sanitizer- one wouldn’t think that they would have the equipment to make anything with over 11 or 12% alcohol. Any distillery could do that, just by fiddling with their process, but a brewery? Odd.I don’t think that home-made disinfectant would be too much of a challenge, particularly if you start with 91% isopropyl alcohol or 190 proof (95%) ethanol. The recommendation appears to be that you stay above 60% in the final product, so your measurements don’t have be terribly precise.
Ethanol will be just as drying as isopropyl alcohol. I’ve seen glycerin recommended as an ingredient to counteract dry skin - there’s no reason I see not to mix three volumes of either one with one volume of glycerin and see how that works. It’ll kill those lil’ Coronas.Too bad 151-proof Bacardi got taken off the market. With it you could disinfect AND smell like a drunken pirate all at once!

Oh - I hadn’t thought about Budweiser’s considerable expertise at putting stuff in small bottles and getting it distributed to stores. That’s more necessary by far right now than finding the stuff to fill the bottles with.

Hooray again! Wish her well!

Speculation, as I don’t know: was the Chinese epidemic geographically confined to around Wuhan? That crazy low infection rate might have to do with much of their huge population never being exposed.
Percy - I’m signing that petition. El naranjo grande es un sinvergenza.

And it’s not beyond believable that your empty reusable bags could sit in the garage for a week between uses, either. Or get run through the clothes dryer right before they go shopping.....

Spitballing again, but it seems that thirty minutes in 150F/65C oven would sterilize a mask pretty well. A paper or cotton mask, anyway - one that would partially melt wouldn’t do so well.

Yeah - Coronavirus seems to like taking up residence in lungs. Cow lungs are called sweetbreads by Scots and other such pagans that actually eat such things. Edited by Admin, : Typo in title.

Pipe cleaners will do fine to make a mask hug your nose. They may be in short supply, at least for cleaning the tar out of plpes, but Hobby Lobby will have them for crafts. They’re ESSENTIAL , y’know.

I just saw that Hobby Lobby agreed that they maybe aren’t essential, so they’re closing. Head shops/vape shops probably have pipe cleaners, though, and check your nearest convenience store, too.

But don’t go out and buy a cylinder of it -315 parts per million is the lethal dose for 50% of the rabbit population. Edited by Coragyps, : No reason given.

We finally got our dot this week in Scurry County, Texas. Two cases so far, but less than forty tests administered as of yesterday, and about ten of them awaiting results. In other words, it hasn’t started yet out here in the provinces.

A doctor who owns a nursing home down near Houston has ordered a supply and is treating some of his patients/residents with it. I will look for a link.

Hi, Big Al. I live way out in the sticks in West Texas, and I, like Percy, don’t know anyone that I know to have tested positive for Coronavirus. I am, however, related to a mother and a grandmother who died of polio and of typhoid fever. My family are believers in immunization, if that the question you’re getting at. Until we have an immunization protocol for Covid-19, we’re trying hard to follow medical advice about the virus. It’s the sensible, sane thing to do.

Percy - I was greatly perplexed by your map in msg 616 until I actually, y’know, looked at the caption and discovered that it was presenting deaths per 100,000 population. There are big circles in far southwest Oklahoma and in the desert of the Texas Panhandle that just looked WRONG. But per capita, they are probably spot-on. Castro County, Texas might have 8500 inhabitants, and I know they had a Covid outbreak with at least one death.
SW Oklahoma is probably similar. The only Big City there is Altus, and it has 20,000 population. So it doesn’t take very many to make a big mark if it’s a per-capita map.

A 100% ignorant speculation: has some non-identified coronavirus circulated on the Indian subcontinent in the last couple of decades? One with very mild disease symptoms, but one that confers some immunity to this one?
(Aside) Dr Birx, could you look into this?