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ClO2 can be used to carve out safe zones at best. It could definitely be used to control airborne transmission in hospital, or other controlled, high risk setti

ClO2 can be used to carve out safe zones at best. It could definitely be used to control airborne transmission in hospital, or other controlled, high risk settings - but it fundamentally is not a cure. We cannot simply fumigate entire cities at 0.3ppm for weeks at a time until an outbreak dies out. Other means will always be needed. And as a nice aside, here's a nice paper about ClO2 use to control flu form a Japanese pharmaceutical company, referencing amongst other things one of their products that acts as a stable low level ClO2 gas generator. http://benthamopen.com/toantimj/articles/V002/SI0008TOANTIMJ/71TOANTIMJ.pdf http://benthamopen.com/toantimj/articles/V002/SI0008TOANTIMJ...

XorNot 12y ago
All of which is irrelevant in places where there isn't reliable electricity, roads, supplies of precursors or a population who won't believe you're actually affecting chemical warfare on them. Taking a short dip into the chemtrails-nuts in the west should convince you how well this would go over. Ebola is fundamentally a result of a myriad of causes, where "poverty" would be a headlining one (followed shortly by corruption and ineffective governance).
VLM 12y ago
"We cannot simply fumigate entire cities at 0.3ppm for weeks at a time until an outbreak dies out." It would be interesting to see the natural selection effect on other things, both primary like killing off something beneficial-ish and secondary like wiping out a niche which is then re-populated by something tough that is ClO2-proof. The tertiary effect would be most interesting. Imagine if you could kill ever garbage eating plague rat during the black plague era... and then after the plague burns out, all of the rats come back all at once and hyper over populate eating a years worth of garbage and debris in a month.

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ClO2 can be used to carve out safe zones at best. It could definitely be used to control airborne transmission in hospital, or other controlled, high risk setti

by icegreentea 12y ago

XorNot 12y ago
All of which is irrelevant in places where there isn't reliable electricity, roads, supplies of precursors or a population who won't believe you're actually affecting chemical warfare on them. Taking a short dip into the chemtrails-nuts in the west should convince you how well this would go over. Ebola is fundamentally a result of a myriad of causes, where "poverty" would be a headlining one (followed shortly by corruption and ineffective governance).
VLM 12y ago
"We cannot simply fumigate entire cities at 0.3ppm for weeks at a time until an outbreak dies out." It would be interesting to see the natural selection effect on other things, both primary like killing off something beneficial-ish and secondary like wiping out a niche which is then re-populated by something tough that is ClO2-proof. The tertiary effect would be most interesting. Imagine if you could kill ever garbage eating plague rat during the black plague era... and then after the plague burns out, all of the rats come back all at once and hyper over populate eating a years worth of garbage and debris in a month.