Tulane University in new Orleans has a primate center north of New Orleans in Covington, Louisiana.
They are going to inject and infect the primates with the virus to study it. These two doctors (scientists) were asked to do this study and they agreed to study how this virus will spread among the primates. They will also work on treatments for the virus.
These viruses are so worrisome. My husband’s company has been effected by the situation because manufacturing is in China. Thank God my husband traveled to China before the virus outbreak and all the protesters as well.
A long time ago some of the primates escaped from Tulane. Some were recovered in people’s backyards. Some were never recovered.
I have always been very OCD about hand washing. I think that came from my mom, grandma, aunts and the nuns at my school. It’s just how I am.
I can’t imagine people not washing their hands. Gross! I am a bit of a germ freak.
I remember years ago a restaurant in our area closing because a kitchen worker had hepatitis and cut themselves and did not wash their hands and bandage it properly. A customer died from the blood that contaminated the food. So sad.
How OCD are you with hand washing?
I recall when cell phones were still fairly new, before they literally became as basic to some people as shoes, that there was concern about the battery in the cell phone being so close to the brain. I haven't read much about that lately, but to me it's an unresolved issue, so I use ear buds just to be on the safe side.
If a 5G network really is a causal factor, I would anticipate a lot of resistance and denial from the tech industry. I'm interested to see how this plays out.
Thanks for sharing this.
https://youtu.be/CtfqUtW_8AA
https://www.wakingtimes.com/2020/02/18/the-coronavirus-5g-connection-and-coverup/
Me too! I have severe allergies and asthma. I have been hospitalized for my asthma. Yeah, I always feel that everything has to be clean. I get why you do too. Thanks for responding.
During peak flu periods, I clean the condiment bottles in many restaurants; there's a big difference between the previous customers handling the condiment bottles and the restaurant staff handling the plates and food.
To control my asthma while traveling I took lots of immune suppressing medications. I caught a couple of colds and the flu once during all the travel.
My husband and daughters aren’t as bad either but they know if they help me cook they better wash their hands!
Oh, and don’t even think about tasting and putting the spoon back in! Yuck! Use a separate dish for serving.
Don’t eat out of the fridge and expect me to eat behind you!!! I can’t do it. I will starve first. If I ever caught anyone drinking out of a bottle or carton in the fridge I would freak!
I will try the kicking then toilet thing. I have used my sleeve too to protect myself. Hahaha.
Feel better, Jada 💗
YES!!! Why can’t everyplace do automatic flush toilets? We have some but older places don’t have them. Perfect solution.
Ever see those videos where a toilet flushes and the spray particles hit toothbrushes? Gross!!! My toothbrush is far away from the toilet! Hahaha 😂
Phew, that was a senior moment...
I’m a germ freak too. I will only use public restrooms if I absolutely have to & will flush the toilet with my foot. If I can’t push the door with my arm, I will use a paper towel to open it.
Now with the Corona Virus I’m so afraid to touch the shopping cart........ I pull the sleeves of my jacket down to grab it to push it into the store where the disinfectant wipes are.
But even with all that, I just got some kind of bug since my husband & son aren’t are germaphobic as me!
Wow! What a bathroom! Is that common in Japan? Talk about automated! That’s fantastic designing. My husband is an engineer. He’s in upper management now but I remember his days designing for the ‘smart home.’
See, I know what you are saying about bacteria but I have been programmed to be a ‘germ freak’ since a young child. Habits are hard to break.
Never never would I open doors with my elbows!
But my husband does, as he opens the doors for me. Lol.
I too am a big hand washer. I also use plenty of hand sanitizer. While alcohol hand sanitizers aren't as good as washing, they are better than nothing.
GA, it's not hand sanitizers destroying good bacteria contributing to people with less immune resistance. It's showering destroying the good bacteria. It's becoming increasingly clear, this everyday showering that's become the fad in the last few decades is bad for you not good. I posted a link to a study concerning the diversity of the body's microbiome in the various how often to bathe threads.
As for bathroom flushing, my favorite bathroom for that of all time was at a bus stop in Japan. It was a complete no touch bathroom. Well other than the seat if that's your thing. But the robot toilet cleaned that seat first for you. The robotic toilet also raised the lid, washed your private parts, dried you and flushed. The sink automatically turned on the water, automatically dispensed soap and automatically dried your hands. Now all this smart toilet cleaning your private parts is not all good. It's possible to be too clean. You need a good microbiome down there. There is a syndrome in Japan that people are too clean. The solution is to layoff the bidet for a while.
I thought the hand wipes available in grocery stores were an excellent way to protect oneself against whatever a former user might have left. Some shoppers make me vvery uncomfortable, especially the ones who handle packages of raw meat, even if the packages are run through on a conveyor belt and automatically wrapped.
Wondering about the rapid spread of the Coronavirus, I've often wondered if the issue of hand sanitizers destroying good bacteria has contributed to masses of people with less immune resistance.
Or perhaps it's also b/c so many people today don't interact with nature, but instead spend more time playing with tech devices and don't build up resistance just by being stronger.
There's no question that this is a frightening situation.
I just would hate having an infected monkey in my back yard!
You know, they do say people's coffee tables are more disgusting than anything else in their house. They tend to come home and prop their feet on them. I do take my shoes off though!
I think hand sanitizers tend to kill the beneficial bacteria and also cause bacteria on your skin to get out of balance. We are covered in beneficial bacteria but they keep each other in line. Let one get out of balance and you have problems. One of the reasons you can get a yeast infection (and thrush) when you take antibiotics. Ok so that is yeast but it is there all the time. The "good" stuff keeps it in balance and you have problems when the "good" stuff gets wiped out. We need the yeast too, though! Same with Staph. We have that already but when it's out of whack, you can get an issue. In other words, it takes a microbiome to keep us healthy!
I agree. I don’t like sanitizers on a regular basis either because from what I have read and heard, they aren’t as good as soap and warm water. I think doctors should wash up to their elbows like in the old days.
Okay, between you and countrymouse I will attempt to hold a bathroom door, not sure that I can push the toilet handle without a tissue though.
I met a lovely lady not long ago, in her nineties, whose father had been a surgeon in the Great War; and she learned her hand-washing technique from him (no latex gloves for him, let alone nifty silicon ones). She told me that once she had been in the ladies' room at a restaurant and noticed that the woman standing next to her about to dry her own hands was watching her. The woman stopped, returned to the basin, and washed her hands over again.
I do use hand gels too but I am not a fan of them. A stout nail brush, soap, water and clean towels or paper towels, please.
But also - you have to be a bit practical and accept that your hands are still going to be covered in microorganisms. We do not (we could not) live in a sterile environment. If you get to the point where you're trying to open doors with your elbows you've probably gone too far.