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My understanding is that 2 things happen. The outer lipid containing layer is attracted to the water,and therefore breaks up in the presence of water and detergent, leaving the virus without any protection - this is a massive over simplification, and completely wrong, as most people tend to be...

Doing the same thing over and over again is how the pyramids were built, it's how societies, and to some extent people, deal with problems which are bigger than they are - which is virtually all problems. Attrition - it's how we get things done, from obtaining the raw ingredients for a mammoth...

Wow. It seems it is safe for teachers in the UK to go back to work because; during the time when schools have been largely shut, due to lockdown, very few of them (teachers) have died, compared with other professions, which have been working. Dr Jenny Harries OBE during briefing (5 mins ago)...

My impression, gained over the last few weeks is this; Most of the damage, and indeed symptoms, are caused by our own immune systems reaction to the virus, not the virus. The immune system overreacting certainly seems to be the case for those being made seriously 'unwell' or dying. I have...

Which pathways, is their any biomedical evidence that these pathways exist, and if there is, is there any that suggest that these pathways are indeed activated by positive thoughts and shouting at circles. and.....is there any evidence, that if they do exist in a biomedical sense, that if...

As should have been expected :grumpy::banghead::banghead:

Very small, trivial even, improvements in my 'energy levels' can lead to significant improvements in my QoL - I'm not taking 10-20%, I'm talking 2 or 3%. It stands to reason that similar very small drops in 'energy levels' can lead to a massive drop in capability, and thus QoL, although these...

'nearly 35%' sounds suspiciously like a figure I used in another post earlier - 34.27% I therefore conclude that, just like my made up figure used to illustrate a point, that this is made up, which, even if everything else was equal, which it doesn't appear to be, casts a certain amount of...

Indeed. It might have been useful, and might still be, to know how much food I needed to get in, for a period of at least 12 weeks shielding (from the beginning of March - before it was called 'shielding'). As advice has varied from 'a few days and then get stuff delivered' - which wasn't...

Given that fatigue appears to be defined, much the same as many other symptoms, to be 'whatever we say it is - but not what you think it is, as you're not trained to know what it is', I am quite interested in how the difference between 'fatigue' and 'fatigue like' is defined. Are we also quite...

I have never had much success with shouting at things. Glaring at things, whilst finger tapping, is however a tried, tested, and often successful method of achieving the desired results. It works with virtually all electronics, as well as washing machines. It does not work on fridges. (ETA -...

Most people probably shouldn't be trying to count viruses for the simple reasons that if you can see 'em you're way too close, and few people have enough fingers.

I would imagine it's a statistical/probability thing. Only one viral particle needs to be successful at entering a cell to replicate, but presumably not all are successful, even before the host immune system becomes active. I'm thinking it's much the same thing as why plants can produce...

From my point of view a lot of this is sophistry. If someone dies because they can't get shopping, or because they were too afraid to seek treatment for another condition, or because they had an accident and couldn't get the correct treatment in time, or because they were inappropriately kicked...

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The coffee is actually quite good, a bit strong caffeine wise, but tastes fine. I am still trying to figure out what, precisely, they expect me to do with the onion. Onions are used in cooking, soups, stews, etc. They are also sometimes fried and used as an accompaniment to meat inna bun. They...

I can think of a simple experiment that might settle the matter. Remove the brain, but keep the body 'alive' using whatever they use to do that. It doesn't have to be the whole brain, just the bit that this president of psychologists uses to 'think' with. Then expose whats left to viruses...

Today, out of the blue, I received a government food parcel. The evidence is definitely suggestive of my now being on the 'extremely like to get seriously mucked up by coronavirus and make us look bad' list. These are better than the food parcel that @Hell..hath..no..fury... received, but are...

I had my first ASDA delivery in several years today. They sent me an SMS message when the driver arrived, then brought it up the stairs and left it outside my door in bags, as requested. No interaction, my door remained shut until he left. The van then left so it seems the driver didn't...

The UK has the NHS, which is devolved in countries which are not England. It is possibly a matter of curiosity as to why the death rate as a proportion of tested infected hospital cases would appear to be roughly double in England (2% roughly) than in the rest of the UK (1% roughly). It would...