Just wondering if anyone else has had local friends sharing this news: 中國疫情升溫病毒傳染性強酒精對其無效 | 諾如病毒 | 醫院 | 新唐人电视台 basically, lots of people in China are sick again and alcohol won’t kill this virus? I hopped onto here expecting a discussion but I don’t seem to see anything else talking about it?? Fa…

Next time we won’t see it coming. There will be far more active cover up and denial. When it becomes undeniable, people won’t believe it is happening. Taking action will take much longer. And scapegoating, there will be lots of it.

[image] tempogain: I can only say that I see a difference. One issue is the effectiveness of alcohol, full stop, while the effectiveness of hand sanitizers containing some proportion of alcohol is a separate issue. It’s not though. I could probably have been clearer in my original post, admit…

[image] Andrew: Viruses can be “resistant” to alcohol though, and alcohol is “ineffective” for some viruses — both of those things are already known. That was my point. I hadn’t thought much about alcohol and viruses until COVID and it was only then that I cared to know that there’s no way fo…

[image] Andrew: I wasn’t referring exclusively to hand sanitizers here, but alcohol as it’s been used in the real world for the duration of the pandemic and alcohol as it’s normally used in medical facilities. I see! Well, if viruses are not always destroyed by alcohol then it’s just nonsensi…

[image] nz: That was my point. I hadn’t thought much about alcohol and viruses until COVID and it was only then that I cared to know that there’s no way for them to become resistant to alcohol. I think the consensus opinion would be that it’s very improbable (i.e., close to impossible) for en…

[image] Kalle: [IMG_4356] How the fuck does a screenshot get to be so low quality?

[image] volv1992: How the fuck does a screenshot get to be so low quality? Maybe this new one is actually a computer virus?

[image] bdog: Maybe this new one is actually a computer virus? Well, Twitter is both a computer virus and a human virus, fucks us all good and proper even when we don’t use it.

New pandemic?

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olm December 7, 2024, 4:29pm 19

Dammit @Icon Stop Jinxing it Last time around, 2019, you were the one who started it all (the threads, not the virus):

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