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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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heisman said:
It's a survey monkey poll, so contains no actual scientific data. If 80% of the population is asymptomatic, they definitely aren't going to THINK they had the virus. Certainly, a large percentage of the population has contracted this virus. It's the only reason the curve has flattened, despite an exponential amount of increased testing.
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This {information that doesn't support my already decided position} is questionable. It doesn't agree with {information that is favorable to my already decided position}.

Fucking kill me now.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
The problem with "limiting" the death toll throughout lockdowns is that it is only delaying the inevitable in that it is only slowing the rate of spread...at some time or another virtually everyone in the country will end up being exposed to the virus, just as everyone has at one time or another been exposed to the flu or the common cold.
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Slowing the rate of spread is very important. Especially when we don't have anything else to stop it.
 
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Ford Software Heats Up Police-Car Interiors to 133 Degrees to Kill Coronavirus

Ford is testing a new heat-cleaning method, using Police Interceptor utility vehicles' own climate-control systems to decrease COVID-19 virus concentration.

Ford has developed and is now testing software that can heat the cabin of Police Interceptor Utility vehicles—the Ford Explorers built for police use—to 133 degrees for 15 minutes, which Ford claims can reduce the concentration of the virus by 99 percent.

The software heats the vehicle to 133 degrees through tapping into the vehicle's own climate control and powertrain. Ford worked with researchers at Ohio State University to reach the conclusion that maintaining the temperature for 15 minutes was long enough to kill the virus.

“Our studies with Ford Motor Company indicate that exposing coronaviruses to temperatures of 56 degrees Celsius, or 132.8 degrees Fahrenheit, for 15 minutes reduces the viral concentration by greater than 99 percent on interior surfaces and materials used inside Police Interceptor Utility vehicles," Jeff Jahnes and Jesse Kwiek, laboratory supervisors in the OSU department of microbiology, said in a statement.

Entire article: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a...ftware-heat-police-vehicles-kill-coronavirus/
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Ford Software Heats Up Police-Car Interiors to 133 Degrees to Kill Coronavirus

Ford is testing a new heat-cleaning method, using Police Interceptor utility vehicles' own climate-control systems to decrease COVID-19 virus concentration.

Ford has developed and is now testing software that can heat the cabin of Police Interceptor Utility vehicles—the Ford Explorers built for police use—to 133 degrees for 15 minutes, which Ford claims can reduce the concentration of the virus by 99 percent.

The software heats the vehicle to 133 degrees through tapping into the vehicle's own climate control and powertrain. Ford worked with researchers at Ohio State University to reach the conclusion that maintaining the temperature for 15 minutes was long enough to kill the virus.

“Our studies with Ford Motor Company indicate that exposing coronaviruses to temperatures of 56 degrees Celsius, or 132.8 degrees Fahrenheit, for 15 minutes reduces the viral concentration by greater than 99 percent on interior surfaces and materials used inside Police Interceptor Utility vehicles," Jeff Jahnes and Jesse Kwiek, laboratory supervisors in the OSU department of microbiology, said in a statement.

Entire article: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a...ftware-heat-police-vehicles-kill-coronavirus/
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Or you can take five minutes to hit it with Clorox wipes and not have a hot car for another hour ...
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Ford Software Heats Up Police-Car Interiors to 133 Degrees to Kill Coronavirus

Ford is testing a new heat-cleaning method, using Police Interceptor utility vehicles' own climate-control systems to decrease COVID-19 virus concentration.

Ford has developed and is now testing software that can heat the cabin of Police Interceptor Utility vehicles—the Ford Explorers built for police use—to 133 degrees for 15 minutes, which Ford claims can reduce the concentration of the virus by 99 percent.

The software heats the vehicle to 133 degrees through tapping into the vehicle's own climate control and powertrain. Ford worked with researchers at Ohio State University to reach the conclusion that maintaining the temperature for 15 minutes was long enough to kill the virus.

“Our studies with Ford Motor Company indicate that exposing coronaviruses to temperatures of 56 degrees Celsius, or 132.8 degrees Fahrenheit, for 15 minutes reduces the viral concentration by greater than 99 percent on interior surfaces and materials used inside Police Interceptor Utility vehicles," Jeff Jahnes and Jesse Kwiek, laboratory supervisors in the OSU department of microbiology, said in a statement.

Entire article: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a...ftware-heat-police-vehicles-kill-coronavirus/
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And how soon before some thug cops use it to torture somebody.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
Slowing the rate of spread means that there may be vaccines before "virtually everybody is exposed". It may also mean that the medical community knows more, has more resources available, and can do a better job of preventing deaths when people get it.
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In theory, yes.

Jagdaddy said:
Also, in the long run the death rate for all humans is 100%, so "saving a life" really just means delaying, not preventing, death in all circumstances. So, delaying the spread is, to a degree, "saving lives" even if the same number of people die of COVID-19 in the end.
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Delaying the death of someone from COVID is not "saving" that person from COVID.

Jagdaddy said:
For example, while some may say "who cares" if any given 80-year old dies tomorrow or next year, I have a friend who managed to introduce his first grandchild to his mother shortly before she died ... and it was a big deal to both of them that he was able to do that. That's not to say that we shouldn't balance other factors, like economic or social disruption, against delaying the spread when considering public policy, but I find the position that "delaying the spread" does not have any value to be unreasonable.
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I never said nor implied that "delaying the spread" or "flattening the curve" does not have any value--your friend's mom getting to see her great-grandchild before passing is an example, assuming she passed from COVID-- but rather it doesn't do what many perceive it to do. And your comments about balancing economic or social disruption against how lone we should lockdown pretty much match what I think...I just think we've reached the point that the economic or social disruption is going to far outweigh the future amount of COVID-related deaths.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
In theory, yes.


Delaying the death of someone from COVID is not "saving" that person from COVID.


I never said nor implied that "delaying the spread" or "flattening the curve" does not have any value--your friend's mom getting to see her great-grandchild before passing is an example, assuming she passed from COVID-- but rather it doesn't do what many perceive it to do. And your comments about balancing economic or social disruption against how lone we should lockdown pretty much match what I think...I just think we've reached the point that the economic or social disruption is going to far outweigh the future amount of COVID-related deaths.
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You may have a point. But. What are those deaths worth in economic($$$$) terms? And how many?
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Ford Software Heats Up Police-Car Interiors to 133 Degrees to Kill Coronavirus

Ford is testing a new heat-cleaning method, using Police Interceptor utility vehicles' own climate-control systems to decrease COVID-19 virus concentration.

Ford has developed and is now testing software that can heat the cabin of Police Interceptor Utility vehicles—the Ford Explorers built for police use—to 133 degrees for 15 minutes, which Ford claims can reduce the concentration of the virus by 99 percent.

The software heats the vehicle to 133 degrees through tapping into the vehicle's own climate control and powertrain. Ford worked with researchers at Ohio State University to reach the conclusion that maintaining the temperature for 15 minutes was long enough to kill the virus.

“Our studies with Ford Motor Company indicate that exposing coronaviruses to temperatures of 56 degrees Celsius, or 132.8 degrees Fahrenheit, for 15 minutes reduces the viral concentration by greater than 99 percent on interior surfaces and materials used inside Police Interceptor Utility vehicles," Jeff Jahnes and Jesse Kwiek, laboratory supervisors in the OSU department of microbiology, said in a statement.

Entire article: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a...ftware-heat-police-vehicles-kill-coronavirus/
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Sheeit, in the 1970s, they could heat up Pintos to like 1500 degrees in a flash.
 
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Taosman said:
You may have a point. But. What are those deaths worth in economic($$$$) terms? And how many?
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Obviously there is (nor can be) a hard-fast number. But when the projected deaths caused by the lockdown start approaching those of actual COVID victims, along with number of lives ruined dwarfs the number of COVID deaths, then it becomes fairly apparent that the cure, and not the disease, is killing the patient.
 
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