COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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I wasn't disagreeing btw . Was just explaining something about humidity.
But yes, not shocking the summer will help reduce transmissions.
Wasn't trying to pile on breh.
Might be why California may have had less deaths than other states. It's basically hot to mild in a lot of places. Also may be why a place like Seattle had some of the worst initial impact because it's humid and cold there.
But yes, not shocking the summer will help reduce transmissions.
Wasn't trying to pile on breh.
Might be why California may have had less deaths than other states. It's basically hot to mild in a lot of places. Also may be why a place like Seattle had some of the worst initial impact because it's humid and cold there.
Just because the outside environment is less hospitable doesn’t mean that people can’t spread it person to person or that it isn’t contaminating indoor spaces like nursing homes and offices.
Hopefully people keep up some degree of social distancing and hand washing.
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What does this have to do with heat and humidity killing corona? By virtue we should be seeing less cases and deaths than colder areas. But we're not
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Yo some of these citizen app crimes are a result of this lockdown..nikkas starting to bug out
Anyone got time I would say take a look at Cuomo's press conference today and the trump press conference yesterday (skip all the parts Trump and Pence spoke and just watch the experts talk).
Cuomo and the doctors discussed some of the road blocks with testing in terms of bottle necks and demand. There discussions were technical, but for any of you brehs or brehettes studying techincal fields or in technical fields its very much relatable.
One of the things that Fauci discussed were gates and how to go from one gate to the next when moving between the different phases of lockdown. This is a 400 foot view which is discussed in engineering and program management. How you can move on from one aspect of the design phase (at the beginning of a kick off) until one gate is closed.
He also discussed a learning curve in terms of building the test kits. Which in manufacturing, process and industrial engineering terms is how quickly people learn to manufacture things at an efficient rate. So take for example you introduce a new part that is being built. It may take your assemblers / technicians awhile to get up to speed to be able to pump out enough parts at maximum efficiency. That is where the learning curves comes in...the more they build the part the more efficient they will become.
Last the doctors mentioned other methods or equipment currently being used to perform testing. Which also brings me back to how a failure analysis lab will some times conduct tests differently than the norm. They might pull out a part specification realize they don't have the needed equipment for testing. But work with the supplier on other methods of conducting the test.
Anyway some real good info. Not saying I know everything they are saying. But some of those methods overlap in other fields. I would assume test kits being manufactured has some of the same obstacles in other manufacturing fields. Or testing processes and issues are similar to some of the issues dealt with in systems, electrical, ESS and Failure Analysis testing.
Anyway thought some of the technical folks on here might have wanted to check it out.
Cuomo and the doctors discussed some of the road blocks with testing in terms of bottle necks and demand. There discussions were technical, but for any of you brehs or brehettes studying techincal fields or in technical fields its very much relatable.
One of the things that Fauci discussed were gates and how to go from one gate to the next when moving between the different phases of lockdown. This is a 400 foot view which is discussed in engineering and program management. How you can move on from one aspect of the design phase (at the beginning of a kick off) until one gate is closed.
He also discussed a learning curve in terms of building the test kits. Which in manufacturing, process and industrial engineering terms is how quickly people learn to manufacture things at an efficient rate. So take for example you introduce a new part that is being built. It may take your assemblers / technicians awhile to get up to speed to be able to pump out enough parts at maximum efficiency. That is where the learning curves comes in...the more they build the part the more efficient they will become.
Last the doctors mentioned other methods or equipment currently being used to perform testing. Which also brings me back to how a failure analysis lab will some times conduct tests differently than the norm. They might pull out a part specification realize they don't have the needed equipment for testing. But work with the supplier on other methods of conducting the test.
Anyway some real good info. Not saying I know everything they are saying. But some of those methods overlap in other fields. I would assume test kits being manufactured has some of the same obstacles in other manufacturing fields. Or testing processes and issues are similar to some of the issues dealt with in systems, electrical, ESS and Failure Analysis testing.
Anyway thought some of the technical folks on here might have wanted to check it out.
Yep this has been discussed before. The immunity can be days, weeks, months or years. Thats one of the things doctors are trying to figure out.
Ode to American Toilet Paper
Of course we hoard it. The soft stuff sets us apart from our one-ply peers overseas.
Andy KesslerApril 5, 2020 2:45 pm ET
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Andy Kessler
Packages of toilet paper in a store in Oklahoma City, March 23.
Photo: Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press
A few weeks into the lockdown, let’s assess where we are. First, we’re all germophobes now. Handshakes are so yesterday. We’re caught up on “Tiger King” episodes on Netflix. We appreciate Amazon same-day delivery now that most orders take a week. We miss sitting in restaurants and milking a table over meaningless conversations. Same for sports, which provided a great background noise to life. Grocery supply chains still seem to work. And given which shelves are bare at Costco and most supermarkets, we see clearly that Americans have a weird fascination with not running out of toilet paper.
This last one should come as no surprise. It’s part of what separates us from the, err, “unwashed” masses. Anyone who has traveled outside the U.S. knows exactly what I’m talking about. I was warned not to shake hands in India.
But why are Americans different? We obsess because, like French wine or Italian coffee, we have the best, so we flaunt it. Be thankful for the glories of two-ply—my kingdom for a 12-pack of 1,000-sheet rolls, still hard to come by. No surprise that in what was definitely not a slow news day on Wednesday, there was national coverage of an overturned 18-wheeler near Dallas because its load of thousands of rolls was burning.
Sure, toilet paper may be controlled by the patriarchy: the Scott brothers, Clarence and Edward, and ol’ Mr. Whipple, who insists that you “don’t squeeze the Charmin!” But once you go two-ply, you can never go back. No wonder Americans hoard.
The first commercial toilet paper was introduced in 1857 by a New Yorker named Joseph Gayetty. It was sold as Gayetty’s Medicated Paper—with aloe. It even had his named embossed on the flat sheets. Rolls were first patented in 1891. By 1935 Northern Tissue started advertising that its toilet paper was “splinter-free”—another reminder that you really didn’t want to be born before then. Two-ply was invented in England in 1942, around the same time as electronic computers.
But take a trip to parts of Europe or Asia or especially South America, and you’ll learn quickly that they’re stuck in the past. Their toilet paper, and facial tissue for that matter, is awful. It can feel almost waxy, like the bags in which your mom used to pack your fluffernutter sandwiches. Or worse, they have the texture of 100-grit sandpaper. Ouch.
And don’t dare flush it. Oh no. Instead you need to place it into an aptly named wastebasket next to the toilet. Has the rest of the world not discovered 3-inch PVC pipes? Thankfully, even Al Gore’s low-flow toilets didn’t lower the American standard to that of the worthless, underflushing commodes overseas.
The Japanese have tried to finesse the whole toilet-paper thing, and even one-up us. They are rightly proud of their electronic toilets. Toto, which is short for Tōyō Tōki, or “Oriental Ceramics,” was the first to perfect the high-fidelity toilet and, as only the Japanese can, market it nonsensically as “the pursuit of toilet happiness.”
Amazon had a sale years ago and I bought a Toto Washlet add-on. It has lots of buttons and even an LCD remote. I’ll readily admit that I can’t live without it. Our Toto pre-mists, though I’m still not sure what for. It has more warm streams than Netflix and I’ve tried them all—rear, front (OK, just once), oscillate, and my favorite, pulsate. And yes, it has a dryer and seat warmer. With the right reading material, you can spend hours.
But wait a second, I did a little research and it turns out that Toto got into the business as the original Japanese distributor of the Wash Air Seat (the name says it all), invented in 1963 by a Brooklyn entrepreneur, Arnold Cohen. Ha, I knew it. It was good old American ingenuity that Toto copied and then perfected. I’m not complaining; it’s that kind of globalization that saved my marriage, as the Toto closes the seat and lid 30 seconds after use. Brilliant. Kohler and other vendors now have similar features. But, but, but, at the end of the day, none of the waterworks functions can replace toilet paper—not even close.
As usual, American capitalism and competition have kept pushing the state of the toilet paper art and roll toward the future. Forget two-ply! Quilted Northern came out with an Ultra Plush® three-ply: “Three cushiony and absorbent layers,” 100% biodegradable, flushable and septic-safe, and Sustainable Forest Initiative certified! And proving there is no end to American innovation, Quilted Northern is developing a (gasp!) four-ply toilet paper, with megarolls to be sold in a commemorative tin. Now that’s worth hoarding.
Write to kessler@wsj.com.
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