I think this warrants it's own thread, as it's quite revealing:

 

It should make clear why masks, why hand washing, why social distancing. Because you know it makes sense.

I'm just going to deny all handshake offers moving forward, no compelling reason for us to shake hands. Maybe offer an elbow bump if I really like the person.

I think the French and Italians may  reconsider all that cheek kissing too.

So true, watching pornhub I mean documentary on channel 4 last night same thing. In UK 

https://vimeo.com/399120258

 

1 hour ago, unsubscribe said:

I'm just going to deny all handshake offers moving forward, no compelling reason for us to shake hands. Maybe offer an elbow bump if I really like the person.

Wai is the winner. Thais got that one right.

Troll remark removed.

2 hours ago, DrTuner said:

It should make clear why masks

no , not at  all, touch is the main transmission, Thais and phones, yeah all got  masks and then the phone welded to their ears, constantly  playing with the mask,advice was  always  wear mask if you are  coughing sneezing only or  if  taking care of a sick  person

Just now, Chazar said:

no , not at  all, touch is the main transmission, Thais and phones, yeah all got  masks and then the phone welded to their ears, constantly  playing with the mask,advice was  always  wear mask if you are  coughing sneezing only or  if  taking care of a sick  person

Ok I'll spell it out then: masks are to stop you from picking your nose or teeth with the dirty paws. Anything that blocks your hand to your mouth and nostrils works, masks happen to be the usual equipment. It still does leave eyes though. A straitjacket should be foolproof.

3 hours ago, unsubscribe said:

I'm just going to deny all handshake offers moving forward, no compelling reason for us to shake hands. Maybe offer an elbow bump if I really like the person.

thais dont shake hands 

10 hours ago, Mike West said:

thais dont shake hands 

Many do in my area but only when they see me. They also always want me to drink (from their glass) but I always refuse since I rarely drink at all. 

14 hours ago, unsubscribe said:

I'm just going to deny all handshake offers moving forward, no compelling reason for us to shake hands. Maybe offer an elbow bump if I really like the person.

Total BS. Chinese never touch each other on greeting. They kowtow or bow each other but they are the one spreading all the germs. 

 

 

Wuhan Shuffle

Excellent video! All is lost, I'm writing my will today.

 

The Glo Germ company also sells an aerosol spray but it's sold out. I wonder if that could be used to visualize mask effectiveness.  From their site:

 

https://www.glogerm.com/bioterrorism.html 

 

"Glo Germ particles (1-5 microns and smaller) is equivalent to the sizes of typical bacteria cells. "  Coronavirus is about 0.12 microns but usually travel as part of a larger droplet or piece of gunk.

Interesting video. Will get wife to have a look and try to share with her friends.

Outstanding video.

 

 

17 hours ago, unsubscribe said:

I'm just going to deny all handshake offers moving forward, no compelling reason for us to shake hands. Maybe offer an elbow bump if I really like the person.

Yer....Because of Corona virus, I have been elbow handshaking...

I now have eczema, and life membership of the Freemasons...................

8 hours ago, Tayaout said:

Many do in my area but only when they see me. They also always want me to drink (from their glass) but I always refuse since I rarely drink at all. 

So when they see you their hands start shaking.

23 hours ago, johng said:

I think the French and Italians may  reconsider all that cheek kissing too.

 

this is why they are dying now

 

 

35 minutes ago, ReLo said:

this is why they are dying now

Sadly I think that is part of the reason...its also still quite cold in Europe the "normal time to catch a cold"

apparently the virus can survive much longer in colder temperatures giving more time to spread.

22 hours ago, Mike West said:

thais dont shake hands 

..dont kiss either..just a nod and a sniff.

On 3/28/2020 at 4:38 AM, DrTuner said:

Wai is the winner. Thais got that one right.

It was invented in India thousands of years ago. It travelled with Buddhist mons and spread in Thailand. It was a recent adoption in Thailand (may be a century old). Even the word swat di is Sanskrit origin. Thais have only added Kha and Kharp. Thai culture, architectures, and language, writing scripts all have their origins in India and Indian languages. 

On 3/28/2020 at 3:19 PM, johng said:

I think the French and Italians may  reconsider all that cheek kissing too.

From now on, only air kisses from 6 feet/1.6 meters away.

12 hours ago, Retarded said:

Total BS. Chinese never touch each other on greeting. They kowtow or bow each other but they are the one spreading all the germs. 

How can you talk like that...

If - as it seems - coronavirus originated from China, it's not because they don't greet with hands... it's because they eat wildlife, bats in this case.

However, once the virus is around it can spread with handshakes and in a million other ways.

What does this mean?

It means that handshaking is to be avoided to avoid contagion. The fact that Chinese people don't handshake and are those who started the virus has nothing to do with that.

This should be simple and clear enough for anyone to understand, how can you call it <deleted>, are you really as clever as your nickname says?

I hate to say it because this youtuber is unbelievably annoying but the content was not bad. Ten million viruses in one drop of sea water, that'll stick in your memory. But still a few errors, social distancing is not proven to help the stop of the Covid19 virus. Otherwise not bad, but a different presenter would really be money well spent.

 

 

too late now...covid is a virulent and resistant strain that is plastered all over the world thanks to chinese gov. 

2 hours ago, Logosone said:

social distancing is not proven to help the stop of the Covid19 virus.

Can you please post a link?

16 hours ago, Tayaout said:

They also always want me to drink (from their glass) . 

shouldn't be a problem if it's alcohol.............

3 hours ago, Mulambana said:

Can you please post a link?

Of course, here's a study done by Chinese academics after the dust cleared in Wuhan.

 

They tried to determine the effect of one social distancing strategy, restricting travel.

 

They reported the view that cordoning off the entire city of Wuhan bought the rest of China 3 days.

 

They admit they can not apportion a specific reduction in transmission to one particular measure. Because there were several measures thrown at the virus, such as testing, isolating and social distancing they are not certain which caused a reduction in transmission to what extent.

 

They are clear that only at the start are restrictions of travel very useful, less so after the virus has spread.

 

They admit there is little data and more needs to be done.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/25/science.abb4218

 

You will find the same story everywhere, all the evidence that the social distancing people have is studies on influenza. However, Covid19 is a different virus. Its transmission is faster, as up to 50% of infected are asymptomatic. So the spread of the virus is much faster than with influenza. 

 

Apart from the influenza studies all there is modelling, again based on influenza studies, assuming the transmission is akin to influenza. Which it is not. It is faster.

 

Of course it stands to reason that there is little hard data on containing Covid19 with social distancing since it's a new virus.

 

The reason the British put all their faith in social distancing is that they did not have test kits. So true containment by mass testing and insolating the infected like Germany and South Korea did was not an option, Neil Ferguson said this.

 

The British did this based on the fact that the Chinese did social distancing. But the Chinese themselves, as you can see based on the study, can not say for sure how effective social distancing was.

 

I think the virus has spread too quickly for social distancing to really be effective, which would have been only at the start of the pandemic anyway. It's too late.

 

On 3/28/2020 at 4:10 AM, unsubscribe said:

I'm just going to deny all handshake offers moving forward, no compelling reason for us to shake hands. Maybe offer an elbow bump if I really like the person.

I have not liked shaking hands for a long time.  Grew up of course with guidance on giving a firm handshake, not a limp wrist.  But  Then everybody started hugging.  I like the Thai Wai.  I understand some of the tradition of higher and lower wai, similar to chinese and japanese level of bowing that conveys social order or heirarchy.  I do not care for any of that, but the simple Wai as an acknowledgement seems like a good and practical idea to me