TheDark

2 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

This video suggests humidity is a significant factor.

 

 

Yes, this video does suggest that evaporation of surrounding droplet in dry air makes the virus more easily to float from one place to another. 

But I guess this doctor has never experienced a dry winter weather. Experienced how our skin tend to dry out, causing cracks to our skin. Both in our externals, like hands but as well inside our nostrils. 

This makes it more easy for viruses to enter our bodies, skipping our primary defence - our skin.

Dried up skin is probably a more important factor than evaporation of the air droplets?

6 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Ye, this can be done with something called ECHMO. Similiar to the heart/lung bypass machine used for open heart surgery.

 

These machines are in short supply, their use is highly complex an staff intensive and there are many serious potential complications from their use, including stroke. They are therefore not normally used in patients in respiratory failure but they are used sometimes in patients who  seem to have better than average potential for survival. Including some COVID cases.

Thanks!

One good point of these type of special events is that it forces people to think out of the box and possibly find new solutions, even previously existing problems and diseases. 

Here is an illustration of the ECHMO machine. 

5 minutes ago, lamyai3 said:

The numbers are accurate as a reflection of official statistics, though the dates are cherry picked to maximise impact. But it's easy to be hoodwinked by the numbers, which are not actually exponential. To take the chart above, the rate of increase in deaths began slowing 20 days ago:

 

40 - 30 days ago: 8x increase

30 - 20 days ago: 12x increase

20 - 10 days ago: 7x increase 

10 days ago - now: <3x increase

Cherrypicked? Care to explain how? I see there yesterday's date, a month before it and another month before it.

I also see number of deaths on 10 days intervals. 

For me that is more like raw data than cherrypicking dates. 

2 minutes ago, rumak said:

Probably?   Do most people buy Colgate toothpaste because it is "probably" better than

other brands ?     

Or is it possible that they are just mindless followers of the advertising?   ( they do have

"dentists"  dressed in white gowns telling you how effective it is  )

Go ahead. Go to public gatherings, break the curfew, walk mindlessly around the hospitals. I don't care.

Freedom comes with responsibility. So when you get sick or you infect your loved ones or other people, remember to take care of them as well.

10 hours ago, IvorLott said:

That RT has to be a close nominee. I remember one bleak day having to go and visit a pal in Cha am, a few years ago on a Buddhist holiday, so all the bars were closed.

He was a right miserable sod too, so we spent the first few hours watching that channel - the only English thing he had on the local 'Charlie Cable' , he lived in a really horrible, soulless house, then we had to sit there staring at the TV while this dross droned on and on an a loop, s he refused flatly to go anywhere, even sit in the garden, as my then missus rang a few pals in Cha am to see what was open, while we had a few beers, we'd bought from a nearby 'Mom n Pop', It was a blessed relief to leave that scuzzy house, on the first night of our holiday, and the drone of RT, to go and sit at a nearby restaurant, I have never watched that channel since. 

The whole purpose of Russia Today is to cause desperation amongst people in the western world. It is part of the Russian government propaganda machinery, quite like the internet trolls are. 

I'm gonna have too many questions, I just wish to learn some more, sorry. But I hope Sheryl and other medical professionals could give some light. 

Can respiration be temporarily, say for few weeks, be fully circumvented by taking patient's blood out, physically saturate the blood with required amount of oxygen and then pump it back to the patient? Does 02 bind with hemoglobin when it's done physically mixing blood with 02?

Would this cause lungs to collapse / malfunction? Is it possible to restart the lungs / respiratory system afterwards?

The French people were brave enough of taking back control from their abusers. Why this is not happening around the world already?

Why the Russians have not already taken control of Kremlin? 

4 hours ago, evadgib said:

One reason the EU were told to sling their hook was their attempt to grab our forces including our Nuclear capability.

Why don't we let this evadgib notion to live forever.

This is the purest form of XXXXXX propaganda, there is. Let's not let this one slide. 

People are really so weird. Why do we even want to talk about if we want to keep our planet clean and habitable?

As far as I know, each UK Prime Minister writes an sealed and signed letter to each of the UK's nuclear tipped submarines (4 I guess). This letter can not be opened, unless there has been an worldwide disturbance and the motherland can not be contacted anymore. 

These letters give the final instructions from the UK government, headed by the PM, what to do as last action measurement. 

PM Johnson has send his letters to all of the nuclear tipped submarines earlier. His final orders are to be obeyed.

Now the question is, what really happens, if PM Johnson's heath deteriorates again and he can no longer consired to be in charge. 

Who is the next person to define, whether we have a global nuclear war or not?

Once one country releases hers nuclear weapons, others will retaliate. There is no going back anymore.

So who owns UK's nuclear button, is a really valid question, which every country should think about. 

This is also, how stupidly fragile our life on this planet really is. It's up to few heads of governments, whether our existence from this world is going to be wiped out or not. I presume it will happen.

6 minutes ago, TheDark said:

Is this your best contribution to this this discussion?

 

Please let as at least sometimes point out to the public, how nasty some of these members really are.. instead of just reporting them to the mods. 

Ok. I might have underestimated your cynicism. I'm tired and a bit (read a lot) more on fight feeling. 

If you get banned for an while, that's on me. Sorry.. really.. 

1 minute ago, brokenbone said:

it would be lovely if i could drink the tap water, but that aint gonna happen in thailand,

and the reason is not industry, the reason is the bum gun users

I'm not talking about city life and drinking tap water. I'm talking about our natural resources and drinking from rivers etc.

We all, humanity, used to be able to do just that, before tap and bottled water was invented. We lost that civic right, when we started to spoil and pollute our own water sources. 

Now we are doing the same for our air. That is really, really stupid sacrifice for nations or humanity to make, for someone greedy to get a new Ferrari or private airplane.

4 hours ago, JCauto said:

We won't have sufficient data to draw any conclusions about whether climate change is significantly man-made or not. The temperature measurements and modeling are on a global scale over the course of decades, and to attempt to draw conclusions from a small blip within this massive set of data will not be productive.

 

We are seeing immediate and positive changes to the environment as a result of the lack of vehicles and industrial activity reducing pollution and un-crowding spaces.  That this should happen so quickly and comprehensively should provide food for thought for those who doubt whether humans can have major impacts on the planet through our activities. Of course we can and of course we have.

 

We have significant data that we, the people, are really messing our Earth. We pollute everything we touch, unfortunately.

Fortunately some countries have taken this pollution problem seriously already for years. Therefore we have a lot cleaner skies in the Europe. That advance will come to Asia and USA at some point. And yes, USA has advanced a lot previously as well.

Today: Wouldn't it be lovely to drink from your local river, without being afraid to get sick, because there is a manufacturing plant upriver?

Tomorrow: Wouldn't it be lovely to breath air from surrounding atmosphere, without being afraid to get sick, because there is manufacturing plant upwind? 

The choice is ours. Either we let the utterly greedy people rule the world, or we take back control and make the Earth Great Again.

19 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:

I agree with most of what you say, especially about the socialist wish lists. I do think human activity contributes to climate change, but I doubt it makes a material difference to the Earth's natural cycles. 

When socialism means that we take better care of the planet, so that we all can enjoy it, not just abuse it. I'm pretty sure socialism is going be a trend in the next few years. 

Addition to your list: Sea otters has been videoed fooling around and having fun at Phuket's beaches. 

Our World, or rather our residents of this Earth can learn a great deal from this pandemic, if only we are smart enough.

I'm hopefully positive, we are. 

I don't bother to repeat myself.

Now UK PM has been hospitalised.

Who is now running the UK?  The Queen took effective the reign back to her self with her speech. But is she the leader of the country now? 

UK Queen just spoke out. Only the 3rd time in modern history.

Boris is now officially a toast bread.

Sweden is really quit odd case today. What I understood is that their government stepped back and let a civil servant practically run the country. 

This is what happens, when populists, from left or right are gaining power. They are useless as leaders. 

Hopefully Sweden find her way soon enough. Otherwise Sweden is going to be sick man of Europe.

The populist had their own time to show how they lead on their own populist propaganda agendas. 

We have now seen, how they are pretty much useless as leaders during the time, when the world requires real leaders. 

Boris, Trump, Putin are all just big talkers, without resources to improve the lives of common people. We have now seen how inept they really are, when real leadership is actually required.

Let's not forget this lesson what kind of leadership populism and populistic airtalk offers to the people. Let's remember this lesson, so that we can say No, when another one arises to the political front.