Any Clue about Science

@Eladar
You don't want to talk politics anymore because you lose every time.
Speaking of UV though, I ordered some UVC lights, will see what happens. This one spits out UV in broad area not like flashlight so it may clear out a whole room.

I also saw ads for strip LED UVC lights, looks like about ten on a strip. At least with those the light can be aimed, but the price is around 300 dollars.

@sonhouse

This is the science forum, so politics is not appropriate.

@eladar said
@sonhouse

This is the science forum, so politics is not appropriate.

What difference does it make what forum we use when you just poo poo whatever we say?
Getting back to science, I wonder if a laser tuned to an EXACT wavelength could destroy C19 in a millisecond and with a low power, not like those ads we see of these new laser pointers with multi WATT power that can start fires.

@sonhouse said
What difference does it make what forum we use when you just poo poo whatever we say?
Getting back to science, I wonder if a laser tuned to an EXACT wavelength could destroy C19 in a millisecond and with a low power, not like those ads we see of these new laser pointers with multi WATT power that can start fires.

The answer is: Yes it would. But it would destroy each and every organic molecule in the way... Ther is no special functional group to which the laser could be tunes that is not found in other molecules.
Probably the old irradiation method would also work.

Perhaps sometimes it is best to let nature take its course.

@eladar said
Perhaps sometimes it is best to let nature take its course.

In this case "let nature take its course" means let a random selection of a few thousand people die and generally die an unpleasant death.

@humy said
In this case "let nature take its course" means let a random selection of a few thousand people die and generally die an unpleasant death.

That is life.

@eladar said
Perhaps sometimes it is best to let nature take its course.

i'm so glad we didn't do that for polio or measles or ebola or AIDS or the seasonal flu or any number of other things that nature has hurled at us over the years.

@wildgrass said
i'm so glad we didn't do that for polio or measles or ebola or AIDS or the seasonal flu or any number of other things that nature has hurled at us over the years.

We did a lockdown for any of those?

@eladar said
We did a lockdown for any of those?

The main way to fight those other deseases isn't via lockdown.

@humy said
The main way to fight those other deseases isn't via lockdown.

Polio? A shutdown would have helped.

Social distancing shutting down places where gay men met for sex would have saved lives.

@eladar said
Polio? A shutdown would have helped.

A vaccine worked better.

@eladar said
Polio? A shutdown would have helped.

Social distancing shutting down places where gay men met for sex would have saved lives.

Are you talking about Polio or HIV here. You do realise that with HIV a lot of the safe/safer sex message came from the gay community?

@eladar said
Polio? A shutdown would have helped.

Social distancing shutting down places where gay men met for sex would have saved lives.

Polio is (was) spread through infected food or water. It typically wasn't transmitted through direct person-person contact (although it probably can be). Also, it was spreading in human populations long before we knew what a virus was. I'm not sure how much a shutdown would have helped.

During the Spanish Flu epidemic, there were shutdowns. Schools, movie theaters, bars and churches were closed. People wore masks. Epidemiologists learned a lot from that outbreak and the common outlook is that the preventative measures were put in place too late.

@wildgrass
Keeping kids away from each other sharing their germs, then polio would have been cut back.

Spanish Flu had much greater deaths than this thing.