Sunlight Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 8x Faster Than Initially Assumed

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52 points·bookofjoe··8 comments

So the neutralization time was not mentioned in this article, so I dug one article down and found this: "According to the letter, the experiments demonstrated virus inactivation times of about 10-20 minutes" which evidently comes from this letter https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...

It should help ease some of the concern there has been for events such as this baseball game with some 40.000 spectators.

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1379170389838999552?s=19

I wonder if they’ll dare say what this means about the effect of forcing people to stay inside.

On the contrary, the move almost everywhere has been to encourage people to move outside. Eating outside, haircuts outside, etc.

If you mean staying inside your own home, well, if you have coronavirus inside your home, then someone is already infected and you are very likely going to get it.

Oh, now Schrödingers lockdown has not been to give people an area around their house they can’t leave, suggesting they should stay in the house, combined with curfews that start hours before sunset and allowing people to leave the house with documentation only.

Don’t waste your breath, there’s an irascible mindset that will never admit the grave errors, hubris and self-confident presumptions of the past year.

Such as the danish Mink industry being shutdown in the name of caution. That cost the danish taxpayers more than $2 billion dollars.

It is actually pretty interesting; that industry had the benefit of laws that state companies that are shutdown have to be compensated. For some weird reason, that does not apply to a restaurant.

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