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They’re not clueless, they’re Hollywood. That’s a long way below clueless.

Anyone know how to sterilize one of those disposable (but not that cheap) N95/N99 masks? Would a cool oven (170 F) for half an hour do it? IDK at what temp the materials start breaking down, they’re obviously not meant for temps higher than humans can tolerate.

If it’s aerosol (small-ish) particles, then your mask has to fit closely to actually work. For ‘serious’ use there’s actually training and a test fit kit to accomplish the correct fit. Don’t forget your eyes, that’s a possible route.

And the words don’t describe what we’re experiencing, yet we use them because we’re too exhausted and have no other phrase ready. “Malaise”? No, I don’t feel like the audience for a Jimmy Carter speech. It’s more like exhaustion, followed by episodic exhaustion, including brain fog, but if...

But other cold-like virii flame out during warm weather, one would expect this one to do likelwise. Speculations: If your country can keep it out until late spring, you’re good until next winter. By then some sort of supportive treatment for what would be a fatal case now will probably be...

That’s too many. Earth will tip over.* *for those outside the US, that’s a reference to our fine congressman Hank Johnson, who objected to stationing more people on an island by opining that it might tip over. When informed that islands do not float and cannot tip over, he dug himself further...

Huh. Here in the USA I remember tea bags from single digit age as the ‘regular’ stuff, and discovered loose tea years later as the ‘fancy snooty stuff’ which actually costs less and tastes better.

Plastic tea bags? Using a new, non-digestible material to steep in boiling hot water and tannins, then consumed every morning, at least? Yeah, brilliant. Tea bags worked just fine for the 200 years before plastics.

2% Or 98% survival, however you wanna look at it.

I will rarely utter a complimentary word about a Communist government, but China is acing this one. It is said that there are no public gatherings in Wuhan and everyone visible outside is wearing a filtermask, which should be enough to catch most of the droplets from respiration/coughs. It may...

We don’t have hard numbers such as exist for a well-defined and diagnosed disease like, ohhh, Type I diabetes. We do have a range of estimates, using varying definitions of ME/CFS/CFIDS. Population of the UK is about 67 million. What do you believe the incidence rate of ME (‘real ME’) is?

I can think of one, with qualifications and based on N=1: It helps one sleep. That probably requires taking it intermittently. But anything which is mild enough to reasonably consider for sleep (i.e. not Ambien) quits working or creates a tolerance after a handful of days. But considering how...

Oh, yeah. Had I the energy to write it, I have a three and a half decade story of this disease to bore y’all with.

“PWME may well not know exactly how things are in the present if they are pacing effectively.” There’s a substantial amount of significance in this one sentence. i) I have learned, at considerable cost, that feeling better for a month does not mean I am either free of or safe from the disease...

it seems that any new fix works for a little while. Take some vitamins, eat more, eat less, fiddle with hormones, all “work” for some increment of time. What may be happening is that there is some sort of shock response to anything new, but then the body quickly runs out its defective battery...

Dr. Enlander in the USA started using it years (decades?) ago.

OK, I gotta jump in with an anecdata, but one that I’ve experienced overandoverandover. It’s consistent and repeatable: Walking is like eating Kryponite dust, while standing in one place is like breathing it. It was more harmful to walk a specific distance than it was to run exactly the same...

There’s been a push to effectively decriminalized that type of theft so in the unlikely event the perps are caught, they’ll be released, this time knowing to fence the thing out of state. I live in a large city in the USA, anti-policing and anti-sentencing have become a thing here.

Nothing in life is 100% safe. One of the more common means of untimely death is falling in the bath, typically someone over 50, head hits stone-hard surface from standing height, that’s it. Modern medicine has many failings but I’ll hazard an uneducated, just-my-impression guess that it was...

anyone here w science background can interpret the paper? What significance does it have, and how much?