Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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Our government is undiscussable and unreasonable but they didn't politicize covid.

Ventilation

The coronavirus is an airborne threat and part of this threat is aerosols. Over the centuries, many Europeans had a home remedy that kept virus and coronivirus threats in check. It was called "Ventilation". During winter the microscopic viral particles in dehydrated form float endlessly in the air and accumulate. This increases the viral load.

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Ventilating rooms has been added to the German government’s formula for tackling coronavirus, in refreshing news for the country’s air hygiene experts who have been calling for it to become official for months. The custom is something of a national obsession, with many Germans habitually opening windows twice a day, even in winter. Often the requirement is included as a legally binding clause in rental agreements, mainly to protect against mould and bad smells. But while some people may dismiss the method as primitive, “it may be one of the cheapest and most effective ways” of containing the spread of the virus, Angela Merkel insisted on Tuesday.

Impact ventilation, or Stosslüften, which needs explanation for most people unfamiliar with Germany except for experts in air hygiene, involves widely opening a window in the morning and evening for at least five minutes to allow the air to circulate. Even more efficient is Querlüften, or cross ventilation, whereby all the windows in a house or apartment are opened letting stale air flow out and fresh air come in.

Source: Germans embrace fresh air to ward off coronavirus

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This is also a old world tradition in Italy. "I open the windows to let out the foul air that accumulates in closed areas - smells and germs. Changing out the air. This frequent habit comes from those who live in the countryside." "Changing out the air in the cold weather can be done in a quick 5 minutes, better if you can create an air current by opening several windows. In the nicer weather, it's great to air out the home for at least an hour, during the morning or late evening."

Source: A Breath Of Fresh Air - The Importance Of Fresh Air In The Home

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My wife came from Poland and she remembers as a child when her grandmother would air out the house in the middle of winter. It was a tradition in the countryside. She would periodically open the windows in the dead of winter for around 10 minutes and let the air circulate throughout the house.

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In the U.S., building construction has focused on energy efficiency. Many of our homes and business are sealed very tight like a drum. Many factories no longer even have windows. They are sealed like a tomb. When I built my home over 40 years ago, I insulated it quite well. As a result I can keep my large (2,500 square foot) home warm in the winter with only a small energy efficient wood stove. This is despite the fact that winter temperatures will dip down to -20 degrees F [-29 degrees C] during the winter. But newer homes are sealed tighter using foam insulation that fills every little crack and crevice. Homes and business heated using furnaces in HVAC units can control the level of air exchanges. But generally these are tweaked way down, otherwise a lot of hot air is allowed to escape from the structure. And that cost fuel and money.

But there is a danger here. It is accumulating aerosol viral loading.

Remember This - Well it may be Back!



As winter encroaches, more than half of U.S. consumers are considering replenishing their assortment of goods and essential products that they had originally stockpiled during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, according to new research from data-driven technology-enabled services company Inmar Intelligence. When the pandemic hit the U.S. in March, 64% percent of shoppers created a stockpile of products as a result, according to Inmar. Now, roughly 57% of shoppers are considering restocking due to growing fears of a "potential second wave of COVID-19," which could lead to another round of bare store shelves.

Source: Second coronavirus stockpiling wave may be coming — and it goes beyond toilet paper, cleaning supplies

Thank you for the information about the importance of air circulation.
This makes a LOT of sense.

With everything about Halloween, Time Magazine has an interesting article about Halloween of 1918 which was right in the middle of that pandemic. https://time.com/5900923/pandemic-hallo ... =103106070

Tents set up at every hospital in El Paso

Nursing homes cite shortages of masks, gloves, gowns and other PPE

I should have seen it sooner.... Sorry!

After the Wuhan virus first wave tapered down, China announced that had everything under control. Because of their lack of transparency, this was a little hard to believe. At the time I began pondering an important question. "Did the Chinese had a secret formula for minimizing the spread of the coronavirus." It turns out they did.

There are two phrases that come into my mind at this point. These are "The devil is in the details." and "hidden in plain sight." [The idiom 'the devil is in the details' has a number of meanings, but they all boil down to one fact, that the smallest detail of anything is very important. "Hidden in plain sight," means something can be easily seen, but because it blends in with its surroundings, it is easily overlooked.]

This thread is a very long thread, perhaps too long. But it does represent a chronology of what has taken place concerning the coronavirus. As I sifted across its many pages, I came across the following page (129) in this thread from 19 March. I paused and pondered it for a moment. See if you can see the detail that was hidden?

Asian students of University of Birmingham, UK, heading home to Asia, on an airplane.

After the SARS epidemic of 2002, many people of eastern Asian descent still wore masks even up to the days of COVID.

I've been looking at the covid stats, and wondering something.
While Europe and the US are in the midst of a second or even third wave, it looks as though the death rates are not as high as in the first wave.
Has anyone else noticed this?

I'm not sure why that is the case, but it seems a hopeful sign.
Although not many people are talking about this, we ought to consider the possibility that vaccination might not be the ultimate solution to this virus, and it might become endemic.
This might not be such a terrible prospect though, if it becomes less deadly.
It would become more like the seasonal flu.

I looked through several videos of walking tours through Asian cities and saw very few people wearing masks.

Western old wives tale.

Here's Beijing, apparently in winter even.

How many do you see wearing a mask?



This is the difference between believing what you hear, and checking for yourself to see if something is true or not.

Go ahead, pick an Asian city and look for yourself.

I'm not against mask wearing these days.

But I know all I hear about how most people in Asia normally wear masks, isn't true. Asians don't normally wear masks any more than Europeans or Americans do.

Watching YouTube videos does not amount to "checking for yourself". You are missing the point about context and customs.

Mask wearing originated in Japan as a way to show courtesy to others if you had a cold, hayfever, or any other trouble to your respiratory system. After that, it took on some other, less medically related reasons. It was consistently worn by sick people in order to contain the spread of viruses and bacteria. Since most people weren't moving in public with such sicknesses, mask wearing people were not so common (but certainly still visible in everyday life).

The custom later spread to Japanese-friendly countries and territories such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, and then later to South Korea and China, but the country were they were most ubiquitously worn was still Japan.