Benefits of Covid-19

[oil pan 4]

The honneywell N95 mask plant in or near Tucson AZ opened today.

[redpoint5]

I still don't know why N95 masks in particular are in the news. Some of them even have exhaust valves, so no filtering is performed when you exhale, which is the primary reason to wear a mask in the first place.

Then there's the fact that they are difficult to breath through. I couldn't imagine wearing one 8 hours a day, 5 days per week.

I've been wearing a surgical mask when I go in public because it's easy to put on and easier to breath through. It accomplishes the goal of keeping water droplets from spewing.

[freebeard]

WION reports that Pakistanis are repatriating from India and Indians are repatriating from Vietnam.

Compare with 1957 and 1918:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957-58_influenza_pandemic

The 1957–58 influenza pandemic, also known as Asian flu, was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2 which originated in Guizhou, China and killed at least 1 million people worldwide.
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The case fatality rate of Asian flu was approximately 0.67%.[12] ... It may have infected as many or more people than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, but the vaccine, improved health care, and the invention of antibiotics contributed to a lower mortality rate.[1] Overall, the pandemic caused 1 to 2 million deaths worldwide[2] or 2 to 4 million.[1] The CDC estimates 1.1 million deaths worldwide.[13] According to a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the highest excess mortality occurred in Latin America.[14] About 70,000[1][11] to 116,000 people died in the United States.[15] In early 1958, it was estimated that 14,000 people had already died of the flu in the United Kingdom of the 9 million who became sick.[3] It caused many infections in children, spreading in schools and leading to many school closures, but was rarely fatal in children. The virus was most deadly in pregnant women, the elderly, and those with pre-existing heart and lung disease.[1] According to research by Barbara Sands, some of the excess mortality attributed to the Great Leap Forward in Maoist China may have actually been caused by the 1957 flu.[16]

[freebeard]

Another benefit, less coal more hydro and renewals:

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...al-for-40-days

Originally Posted by Reuters

Electricity generated by renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro has exceeded coal-fired power in the United States for a record 40 straight days, according to a report based on U.S. government data released on Monday. The boost for renewables is due to a seasonal increase in low-cost solar and hydro power generation, alongside an overall slump in electricity demand caused by coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Coal tends to be the first power source to be cut by utilities when demand falls because subsidized renewable sources are cheaper to operate and often backed by state clean-energy mandates.

Every day between March 25 and May 3, solar, wind and hydro plants together produced more electricity than the nation's coal-fired plants -- accounting for about a fifth of the grid's power, IEEFA said.

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I still don't know why N95 masks in particular are in the news. Some of them even have exhaust valves, so no filtering is performed when you exhale, which is the primary reason to wear a mask in the first place.

Then there's the fact that they are difficult to breath through. I couldn't imagine wearing one 8 hours a day, 5 days per week.

I've been wearing a surgical mask when I go in public because it's easy to put on and easier to breath through. It accomplishes the goal of keeping water droplets from spewing.

I prefer the non valve ones. I think the condensation from my breath helps trap dust particles.

[redneck]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Another benefit, less coal more hydro and renewals:

Benefit...???

Coal tends to be the first power source to be cut by utilities when demand falls because subsidized renew6able sources are cheaper to operate and often backed by state clean-energy mandates.

Subsidized is cheaper to operate...???

Who pays for these mandated subsidies ...???

Since their cost to produce is way down are they rebating the difference to their customers ...???

Every day between March 25 and May 3, solar, wind and hydro plants together produced more electricity than the nation's coal-fired plants -- accounting for about a fifth of the grid's power, IEEFA said

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That doesn’t sound good to me.

Sounds more like we’re in trouble...

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[redneck]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

I prefer the non valve ones. I think the condensation from my breath helps trap dust particles.

Since no mask 😷 seals perfectly one can still inhale the virus 🦠. The problem starts when a low viral count is breathed in and exhaled into a warm moist mask. This turns the mask into a fertile breeding ground thus increasing the viral count and the likelihood of overwhelming the immunity system and causing a infection. Without a valve, CO2 is harder to expel making it harder to get the correct and needed amount of oxygen. This makes one breath harder and more likely for the mask to pull contaminated air from poor sealing edges. Higher concentrations of CO2 also stress the heart and add to fatigue which makes one breath harder yet which exacerbates the whole problem.

A mask for the most part is useless unless you’re working around a known sick person or you are sick. Then it is marginal at best.

Masks in general give a false sense of security.





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[redneck]

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[oil pan 4]

Oh I'm not wasting my N95 masks being afraid of this stupid virus. I use them when doing reno demo, lawn work, situations that generate dust that will give me COPD 30 or 40 years from now.

[freebeard]

Benefit...???

Okay, I'll walk that back. I was shoe-horning into the thread.

My preference would be to use molten salt reactors to consume nuclear waste. Does coal slag still have all the Thorium the raw coal has?

The largest reservoir of easily harvested power is the tides.

edit:
I guess I missed Suspicious 0bservers yesterday. There was mention of this paper:
arxiv.org: PETROLEUM, COAL AND OTHER ORGANICS IN SPACE

It is shown that the petroleum and coal model of the UIE converges and merges quite well with the MAON (Mixed Aromatic Aliphatic Organic Nanoparticles) model of the UIE [unidentified infrared emissions]. It is shown that the thermal treatment of various substrates like PAHs, alkylated PAHs but also mixed aliphatic/olefinic substrates leads invariable to carbonaceous materials matching the infrared spectrum of anthracite coal or certain petroleum fractions.

Not a good fit for a Corona-chan thread. Perhaps I should start a new thread in The Lounge so we can talk about climate?