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by burfog 7y ago
Those are arguments against "designed as a bioweapon" and "intentional release by government". They are not arguments against "created in a lab", "lab containment accident", or "intentional relea
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by burfog 7y ago
Autoclaving is fine. Pick the hottest non-damaging temperature. The plan in some places is to put a mask in a paper bag, write the date on it, and leave it in a warm place for two weeks. This does require that every worker have two weeks wo
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by burfog 7y ago
That is serious and useful, unlike the groundless claim of natural origin. The lab in Wuhan has been publishing coronavirus research for many years. In some of the research, they cause bat viruses to replicate in human cells by using the AC
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by burfog 7y ago
The tonic water that is available without prescription is too dilute to matter as a drug. You would get the permanent vision problems after using it daily for about 500 years, except that you are unlikely to live 500 years anyway.
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by burfog 7y ago
They aren't wrong about the sauna. The whole point of a fever is that the higher temperature harms the disease organism more than the host organism. It is in fact to "kill the virus". The sauna supports that. The same goes fo
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by burfog 7y ago
Even the non-metal roofs have changed. The shape used to be 2-plane, like a book opened face-down, with a spine running from one end to the other. This made two walls of the house pentagonal. Those pentagonal walls typically had the upper p
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by burfog 7y ago
It's not high quality or well researched. It uses biased sources. Trump took action in January, despite the ongoing impeachment circus, but the post contains a sentence ("Trump could have done something between 4-6 weeks sooner pe
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by burfog 7y ago
Wikipedia's page on Adenoviridae lists these human adenovirus types that cause obesity or adipogenesis: HAdV-A type 31; HAdV-C type 5; HAdV-D types 9, 36, 37 One of the references: Voss JD, Atkinson RL, Dhurandhar NV (November 2015). &
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by burfog 7y ago
It gets interesting if you start people on the anti-viral medication before infecting them. That should make the disease very mild. There might not be anybody who gets severe illness.
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by burfog 7y ago
There are numerous private clinics that can get things done fast, and Canadians often use them. Things would be different if the border were closed or if Canadians lived far from it. Without that easy-to-cross border, the political pressure
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by burfog 7y ago
Melt-blown fabric is not a requirement. It's just what we have been using. It is good enough for the job, and it is really cheap if you already have the machines. There are types of aerogel that are flexible. When created with embedded
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by burfog 7y ago
The problem is harder if we demand flexible fabric. That isn't how gas masks are done. With a canister filter, all sorts of options become possible. We could use sintered glass, ceramic, or metal. We might be able to use aerogel, diato
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by burfog 7y ago
This looks like a vaccine to me. We sometimes use weakened live viruses as vaccines. For example, we did it for polio. Hydroxychloroquine weakens the virus. No, it isn't genetically weakened, but that doesn't make a difference. St
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by burfog 7y ago
I don't see how it is possible for both sides to be grayed out if, as you say, one side isn't presenting arguments. With no arguments you can't get grayed out. You can't even be sure it is Trump supporters doing the voti
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by burfog 7y ago
Flow reactors always struck me as the distinction between chemistry and chemical engineering. Chemists mix up little batches in borosilicate glass. Chemical engineers use stainless steel pipes big enough to crawl through.
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by burfog 7y ago
Software using obscure kernel interfaces does keep private copies of kernel data structures. The reason is that people want the software to have full functionality no matter what system is used for building it. You can build on an old syste
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by burfog 7y ago
I'd pick them over the Chinese propaganda Vox is pushing. The propaganda doesn't even disprove that the virus was created in the lab. It emphasizes the mere possibility of the virus being fully natural, it pretends that we could r
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by burfog 7y ago
We cave to the Chinese, and this is how they reward us. We're using awkward names (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) and less-specific names (coronavirus) instead of Wuhan virus. They then spread the idea that the US performed a biological attack
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by burfog 7y ago
It's nice that we have a choice, isn't it? Those who don't want a socialized medical industry can live in the USA. Those who want it can live almost anywhere else in the world. Choice is good. Make your choice. (seems you did
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by burfog 7y ago
Linnaeus has already named the animal Bos taurus, which perfectly distinguishes it. Commonly, the animal is referred to as livestock. ... No, we're going to call it "cow".
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by burfog 7y ago
Coronavirus is a less distinguishing name. There are many types of coronavirus, including SARS and MERS. There are types of coronavirus that are only in animals. Here is the media prior to the thoughtpolice, using the common name: https:&#
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by burfog 7y ago
This infuriates me. It's cutting corners, reducing the quality of care. There are now portable iron lungs that fit like a turtle shell. They do both inhalation and exhalation. That should be the only acceptable standard of care.
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by burfog 7y ago
Make it like a turtle shell, hooked up to something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_woofer That lets you use both positive and negative pressure. You could even support fast pulses for clearing out gunk
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Whitefish was getting stuff done. It was more than one man. It had the needed skill, which was subcontracting. Whitefish got numerous teams operational in Puerto Rico before being yanked off the job by politics. The whole story of Whitefish
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by burfog 7y ago
Those requirements are not enormously exclusive. It's only bad when you also require low cost and minimal training. (avoiding: turbine, complex aircraft, high stall speed, high performance, pressurized, etc.) Consider a lifting body li
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by burfog 7y ago
That isn't good. We're trying to slow a pandemic. Until we get a vaccine, public transportation shouldn't be running.
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Finding a route without congestion is literally impossible for trains stuck on a dedicated track. One little traffic problem shuts down the whole line, including all stations along the route. Since lines are typically connected without redu
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by burfog 7y ago
If the business prioritizes security, getting to https://news.ycombinator.com would not be possible. If you want to get to https://news.ycombinator.com you use a separate PC. The PC you use with the VPN is never to b
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by burfog 7y ago
With or without traffic, those groups do not feel safe out on the streets of San Francisco. They are easy prey for bad people. They don't handle the hills well; they might fall and break a hip. Public transportation isn't safe eit
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by burfog 7y ago
You can still have problems. It may be determined that the computer's clock got too far ahead. For example, it booted and you cared about time, but NTP hadn't yet made corrections. Suddenly the time runs backwards. Leap seconds ma

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