Watched a chap on youtube last evening showing how the World Health Organisation advise you can make your own hand sanitiser using rubbing alcohol, bleach, boiled water and vegetable oil. On another note my wife did the weekly shop in Lidl/Sainsburys this morning and says that it was "like Christmas" people emptying the shelves, bread, milk, of course toilet rolls, forget hand sanitiser there ain't none, plenty of fresh fruit and veg left though, oh! she had the last packet of pasta.
@wild edges I think they just don't have enough data to know about things like immunity. This article suggests the virus is mutating and there are various strains in China.
It's the thing about corona viruses, isn't it? They mutate very readily.
I was talking to a couple of Italian friends yesterday. They are both resident in the UK now but their families are in various parts of the North of Italy, including Lombardy. One said her family are fine, just climbing the walls trying to keep the children entertained indoors. But the other's elderly Dad lives alone and she said he is very scared - he sits on his own watching the TV with wall to wall coverage of doom and gloom and he thinks death is inevitably coming.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
One of the problems with medical stories in the general press, is that most of them are wrong. Mutation is inevitable, all viruses mutate and usually fairly rapidly, that is why the common flu vaccine changes every year.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Watched a chap on youtube last evening showing how the World Health Organisation advise you can make your own hand sanitiser using rubbing alcohol, bleach, boiled water and vegetable oil.
Be careful who you listen to, there’s a lot of lies and untruths being spread about.
As reports of the shortages emerged in Italy, so did recipes for home-made gel on social media.
But these recipes, alleged dupes for one of the country's most popular brands, were for a disinfectant better suited for cleaning surfaces and, as scientists pointed out, not suitable for use on skin.
If this virus can cause this much panic just think what one which killed otherwise fit and healthy people would do, the troops would be on the streets general disorder would be taking place the survivalists wouldn't look so silly then.
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I was talking to a couple of Italian friends yesterday. They are both resident in the UK now but their families are in various parts of the North of Italy, including Lombardy. One said her family are fine, just climbing the walls trying to keep the children entertained indoors. But the other's elderly Dad lives alone and she said he is very scared - he sits on his own watching the TV with wall to wall coverage of doom and gloom and he thinks death is inevitably coming.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Mutation is inevitable, all viruses mutate and usually fairly rapidly, that is why the common flu vaccine changes every year.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51735367
3. Home-made hand sanitiser
There have been many reports of shortages of hand sanitiser gel, as washing your hands is one key way to prevent spread of the virus.
As reports of the shortages emerged in Italy, so did recipes for home-made gel on social media.
But these recipes, alleged dupes for one of the country's most popular brands, were for a disinfectant better suited for cleaning surfaces and, as scientists pointed out, not suitable for use on skin.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border