Corona Virus #5

[clemsonfor]

This is kind of silly...I'd guess most mail carriers/handlers will be wearing gloves as the bigger threat would come from infected persons that licked and sealed envelopes that hold letters/documents that had previously been in close proximity to possibly infected persons...

If you spray the outside of an envelope for protection from the mail carrier etc...what are you going to do with what's inside?

That was my point, with looking it all over outside and throwing it away out there. You would have to spray the outside and inside contents which I should have explained better.

 

[RSKY]

Want to know how serious this is in Europe? The largest makeup maker has switched all production to hand sanitizer.

And the largest producer of gin has stopped production and converted to making a spray on disinfectant for use in hospitals and other places.

Google it and read the articles.

 

[ovrszd]

That was my point, with looking it all over outside and throwing it away out there. You would have to spray the outside and inside contents which I should have explained better.

You explained it fine. Protecting yourself by washing your hands after you've carried the mail in the house and opened it is the silly part. Not the fact of hand washing. The fact of thinking that makes it all safe.

 

[ovrszd]

Want to know how serious this is in Europe? The largest makeup maker has switched all production to hand sanitizer.

And the largest producer of gin has stopped production and converted to making a spray on disinfectant for use in hospitals and other places.

Google it and read the articles.

Yeah we haven't scratched the surface of our ability to ramp up production of necessities if needed.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

This is good for a worst case scenario of the virus itself...but a bigger threat to the majority of Americans is what can possibly happen to disrupt the supply chain of necessary goods etc...

Dealing with large numbers of sick people can be coped with...dealing with large numbers of starving people is another issue all together...

My comment was about the character of the man Francis Collins than the virus itself. The outcome of the course of the virus at this point in time is set for the most part I expect. I went to Walmart first thing this morning and you are correct about the supply chain of necessary goods. I do not think everyone got the memo that this is a 6 months thing not just a 2 week event to wait out. We should know which end is up sometimes between July 4th and Labor Day as I see it currently.

Now in two weeks we may all decide to go where we wish and when we wish. There is not enough law to prevent that from happening we can see on the beaches in FL today. I think like in the past unemployment benefits will be renewed every 6 months for years if needed for food and housing. If we get hungry before it is over that may be a plus of the generations to come.

Hopefully most will stay put until the spread rate finally gets lower and lower week by week. We will come out of this and continue moving forward. Then we will have to decide it is OK to play second fiddle to China like England did when we replaced them as the most powerful nation.

This virus is real. It may leave a scar on the minds of the kids like the great depression did on my parents when they were still just kids. It changed them for a life time. Many of us are to near the end of the road for it to matter that much in some ways. The stock market will work its way to 50,000 and beyond if history continues to repeat. A 100 years ago the Spanish Flu changed the lives of many and the Great Depression followed about a decade later. We can lose our lives and our wealth like a 100 years or so ago but the earth keeps spinning the the sun keeps coming up every morning on the survivors.

After the talk of the last few days we much now be down by about 25 trillion when it comes to the USA national debt. We have whole industries about to change ownership. The home schooling of 2020 may turn out to be a good thing. Time will tell as it always does.

If we have a new generation that can produce more like Francis Collins in the above article they will be OK long term.

We are just in the dark currently but with the likes of Francis Collins and the many men and women like him we will be lead into the light again talking about EV's and Mars. Man like grand plans and they will be coming sooner than we realize. The next generation or two will be better and stronger due to overcoming COVID-19.

 

[wheelbuilder]

This is kind of silly...I'd guess most mail carriers/handlers will be wearing gloves as the bigger threat would come from infected persons that licked and sealed envelopes that hold letters/documents that had previously been in close proximity to possibly infected persons...

If you spray the outside of an envelope for protection from the mail carrier etc...what are you going to do with what's inside?

Could you bake it in the oven (low enough not to burn it) to sterilize it ?

 

[wheelbuilder]

On a different note, is anyone planning to expand their garden because of this ? I'm trying to talk the Mrs into it.

 

[ovrszd]

Good stuff Gale!!!

The good thing economically is the entire World is in this one. We can free up a tremendous amount of financial resources by simply snipping the cord to the multitude of nations that we give money to. So I don't worry about a financial crash. If it happens we will come out on top.

 

[/pine]

Could you bake it in the oven (low enough not to burn it) to sterilize it ?

I read that 140*F will kill the virus but that is just something I read not 100% sure...

 

[Agvg]

Want to know how serious this is in Europe? The largest makeup maker has switched all production to hand sanitizer.

And the largest producer of gin has stopped production and converted to making a spray on disinfectant for use in hospitals and other places.

Google it and read the articles.

There are shortage of all types of supplyes, all of this was imported and we didn't have any local production, now local industries have been able to start up production of some types of protection clothing and sanitizer.

This is the status in Norway and Sweden