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It’s not alive!
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It's interesting to me of some of the most basic facts about viruses doesn't seem to get out to the public. Do you know a virus is not really alive by standards of our body’s cells?
A better analogy for a virus is a template not a life! So literally, technically, you can never kill a virus because it never was alive.
First let me say I am not a virologist and I do not pretend to be one on TV or on social media.
Here is a definition I got, from my reference #1, (listed at the bottom of this post) thanks to Vincent Racaniello.
“Viruses are not living things. Viruses are complicated assemblies of molecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates, but on their own they can do nothing until they enter a living cell. Without cells, viruses would not be able to multiply. Therefore, viruses are not living things.”
Viruses are more like a copying machine making copies of itself. It simulates life by creating more of itself but they never grow up they are immediately full-grown adult, (in this analogy).
That's because they're simply a copy, and a copy is a full-grown adult virus. It never grows because it never was alive. The way I understand it, you don't actually kill a virus, you disintegrate it.
Viruses are small pre-designed plans to alter your existing cells. And conditions, that we are told ‘kill viruses’ actually break them apart so they are no longer a viable ‘construction kit’.
15 minutes in direct sunlight should be enough to break apart any virus exposed on your body. I'm sure Dr Fauci knows that, and it amazes me that he was not more in support of people “playing in the park”, during the pandemic?
Masks really only serve one purpose, and that is, to prevent large droplet transmission. This is why after all the convoluted ‘masks are good’, ‘masks are bad’, procedures, one thing you will hear is that the reason you should wear a mask is ‘to prevent infecting others.’
Virions (a single unit of a virus), in size proportion to the fibers of a cloth mask, are the same as trying to stop a grain of sand, using a chain link fence!
If grains of sand could kill you, how many would stand behind a chain link fence hoping to be saved?!
Although stopping droplet transmission is important, we also know this virus spreads through ‘aerial’ infection.
This means the viable infection can literally float in air waves, land on other surfaces, and continue their copying process, (infecting) in any cells it finds along the way.
The 6-ft rule is virtually a joke for an aerially transmitted virus. That would be effective for viruses that can only be transmitted through droplet infection.
It can be argued that a mask is actually a gathering place! And, since most of us are not medically trained, mishandling that mask, that is touching the outside or even the inside where you've been breathing could indeed spread the virus!
You really should only handle the straps, and as little as possible, and wash very often.
I will say this about spreading. The worst offender obviously is a cough! That could easily send millions of virions into the air floating around minutes and landing anywhere, even on the other side of air conditioning ducts.
The second might be people who speak right in your face, or extremely loudly, with a lot of emphasis. That's almost the equivalent of a cough.
Again, I am not a virologist but I believe that if you are not prone to cough, and avoid staring people in the face and getting excited while speaking, a mask to prevent you spreading the virus to others would not do much good.
Experts have wondered why small children do not seem to transmit this virus as much as older people do. It seems obvious to me the most obvious path of transmission is droplet infection. Due to the short stature of small kids, they're droplet infection ranges are very limited.
Similarly, their aerial transmission won't generally be pointed high limiting the aerial swirl as well. Do kids pass on viruses? Absolutely, with dirty hands, runny noses, and touching everything!
Children are constantly in a learning process, discovering what they should and shouldn't say to others. Facial expressions, to a large degree, are how they learn to interact. Part of getting along with new relationships depends on that feedback!
Masks will definitely impede their physical social skills, not to mention serve to isolate causing anxiety. Virologist or not the people to ask. We should consult anthropologists and psychologists about the damage masks could cause to the young.
The science is complicated. Those that tell you we have settled science, are fools. It is imperative that this entire conversation be opened, so all possibilities can be discussed. That is the only way ‘real discovery’ is achieved and good solutions implemented.
Respectful comments, criticisms, corrections, essays are always welcome. This is how we get there.
Virus references I used:
#1 https://www.virology.ws/2004/06/09/are-viruses-living/
#2 https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questions/are-viruses-alive
#3 https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-24/edition-11/lure-horror
I was the Production Director. I edited (spliced with a razor blade and tape) reel to reel audio tape and made magic, (commercials and contest promos). To maintain my energy I brought a gallon of orange juice into the studio every day and it was gone five hours later when my show was over. Funny, I don't recall ever getting the Flu when I was there.. 🙄😎
The reason there's only the parts where I talk and not the whole song is because the boss, (the Program Director) required us to record 'skimmer tapes' that only run when our mic is open, so he could yell at us for anything he thought was wrong. LOL
