04-24-2020, 10:18 PM
Yeah.
No,
Not going to ingest bleach, and I'm certainly not going to inject it up my ass. Chlorine is bad for living carbon-based things. Very bad. ChlorIDE is ok, but once it gets the "-ine" in place of the "-ide", you're screwed.
Regarding the light contention, it has been acknowledged for millennia that "sunlight is the best disinfectant", which is one of the reasons the human race has gotten sicklier over time, since hanging laundry out in the sunshine to dry has gone out of fashion. Sunlight is good for folk and bad for virii because of it's UV content. Oxygen in the atmosphere blocks most of the UV in sunlight from hitting the Earth, which is why environmentalists make such a big deal about the "ozone hole". Once upon a time, before the oxygen revolution, life could not exist on the surface of the Earth because of the UV bombarding the planet due to the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere. This is why life began in the ocean - the oxygen in H2O blocked the UV from destroying the organisms there. Those organisms (primarily the stromatolite-building blue-green algae), in a bid for self-preservation I suppose, started generating oxygen and releasing it into the atmosphere, eventually accumulating a high enough concentration to block enough UV in the sunlight to allow for life to emerge from the oceans on to dry land.
Enough UV still gets through to kill viruses, which are really only about half-alive to begin with. They can't maintain even that half for long without a living host cell to raid for the other half to life.
Now, this "light" (really just the UV part of it) solution only works on external surfaces. You can't use light internally to kill the covid. Even at that, however, the more of the covid virus you can kill off while it is in transit from one organism to the next, the better off you are... and that is where the sunlight as the best disinfectant comes in.
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As an aside, I marvel at the zombie-like control the media appears to be exerting over the left-wingers. There is a young lady I have been patiently discussing current politics with who I was convinced was nearly ready to come into the light, who had nearly been cleansed of communist tendencies and gave all appearances of starting to think for herself... and then this patent bullshit report of what "Bad Orange Man said" came along, and all it took was a single meme on Facebook for her to relapse. The sorcery is strong on the Dark Side...
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No,
Not going to ingest bleach, and I'm certainly not going to inject it up my ass. Chlorine is bad for living carbon-based things. Very bad. ChlorIDE is ok, but once it gets the "-ine" in place of the "-ide", you're screwed.
Regarding the light contention, it has been acknowledged for millennia that "sunlight is the best disinfectant", which is one of the reasons the human race has gotten sicklier over time, since hanging laundry out in the sunshine to dry has gone out of fashion. Sunlight is good for folk and bad for virii because of it's UV content. Oxygen in the atmosphere blocks most of the UV in sunlight from hitting the Earth, which is why environmentalists make such a big deal about the "ozone hole". Once upon a time, before the oxygen revolution, life could not exist on the surface of the Earth because of the UV bombarding the planet due to the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere. This is why life began in the ocean - the oxygen in H2O blocked the UV from destroying the organisms there. Those organisms (primarily the stromatolite-building blue-green algae), in a bid for self-preservation I suppose, started generating oxygen and releasing it into the atmosphere, eventually accumulating a high enough concentration to block enough UV in the sunlight to allow for life to emerge from the oceans on to dry land.
Enough UV still gets through to kill viruses, which are really only about half-alive to begin with. They can't maintain even that half for long without a living host cell to raid for the other half to life.
Now, this "light" (really just the UV part of it) solution only works on external surfaces. You can't use light internally to kill the covid. Even at that, however, the more of the covid virus you can kill off while it is in transit from one organism to the next, the better off you are... and that is where the sunlight as the best disinfectant comes in.
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As an aside, I marvel at the zombie-like control the media appears to be exerting over the left-wingers. There is a young lady I have been patiently discussing current politics with who I was convinced was nearly ready to come into the light, who had nearly been cleansed of communist tendencies and gave all appearances of starting to think for herself... and then this patent bullshit report of what "Bad Orange Man said" came along, and all it took was a single meme on Facebook for her to relapse. The sorcery is strong on the Dark Side...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’