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I'm not sure who/what/where The Gal Times is. Article is in fractured English ... though all the quoted sources look OK.

Edinburgh study of out-going protection from a mask (none,surgical,n95/ffp1,2, home-made,shields...)

They all cut down the forward flow, but many have significant side/up/down/behind leakage.

Press release …

Edinburgh study of out-going protection from a mask (none,surgical,n95/ffp1,2, home-made,shields...)

They all cut down the forward flow, but many have significant side/up/down/behind leakage.

Press release …

A few links I haven't seen here

1. worldometer -- The Covid-19 pandemic has catapulted one mysterious data website to prominence, sowing confusion in international rankings
<https://www.cnn.com/interactiv…ter-coronavirus-mystery/index.html>

2. Sweden…

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(And see my earlier post about universal masking ... )

An interesting paper and model[s] -- Masksim, showing that if 90% of the population uses a 70% effective mask (eg home-made) before day 50, the epidemic can be suppressed.

Paper : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13553.pdf

Universal Masking is Urgent in the…

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Sweden has no little more herd immunity than Norway (total cases/million) -- 1.55 *
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covi…rway#countries-normalized
and paid a terrible price in lives (deaths/million) 7*
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I'm guessing that strain from bending a piece of palladium would open up cracks on one side and squeeze them shut on the other.
(Paper is paywalled)

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Hmmm .... entanglement IS spooky.

I skimmed (read quickly) the summary and introduction. Rang a lot of bells in my memory (I spent several years in graph-related activities), and I've been following strings and loop quantum gravity (etc) for a while.

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Belgium puzzles me ... they're near the top (#12) of cases/million and top of deaths/million
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
(excluding tiny countries)

From my small county (Lake, California ... 6 cases so far)


Covid19 Detected in Raw Sewage

Special Districts has been participating in a project to test the sewage from all four sewer treatment plants for the presence of COVID19. The group that does the…

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I didn't spot a link above ...
From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554776/

Sample Wuhan paper -- from a journal "special bat virus edition" 2019

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/4/379

EDIT : and https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/5/423 [ my bold ]

Moreover, the presence of SARSr-CoV ORF7a-like protein in Rs-BatCoV HKU32…

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They didn't build it. They collected rare bats and studied the viruses they carried.

(I read a long article on this aspect quite a while back, but don't have it bookmarked. Maybe The Atlantic?)

EDIT: recent story on the viral spread…

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That it might have escaped from a "study" bio lab is not quite the same as "was weaponized" in a bio lab.

S. Korean re-infection.
https://www.reuters.com/articl…itive-again-idUSKCN21S15X

Only Reuters has reported on this. They don't say how many of the 7000 recovered cases were RE-tested.

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The (or one of the) underlying papers is : https://chemrxiv.org/articles/…ing_to_Porphyrin/11938173