Just a tiny bit of Schadenfreude (I like the Dutch “Leedvermaak” better)
I kinda like “getting buttfucked by Karma”.
YAY!!!
… Evidence is also mounting, Donald [McNeil, science reporter for NYTimes] said, that Covid-19 is more of a blood vessel disease than a respiratory disease. While the virus enters the body through the lungs, it seems to do its damage by attaching to the insides of blood vessels, infecting organs, like the kidneys and the brain, with lots of fine blood vessels.
“When they do autopsies, they find thousands of tiny little blood clots all over the body,” Donald said. That explains why some patients may experience strokes, dementia and disorientation — and why children and young adults have experienced so-called Covid toe…
(This is a daily newsletter - scroll down to find the place I quoted.)
Hoping this qualifies as breaking news and not just general COVID fodder, if so please relocate with my apologies. 
Two Lysol products approved by EPA to kill coronavirus
Not that I’ve been able to get my hands on Lysol spray in 3 months, but dang I wish I could. I’ve learned a lot from this pandemic, like the fact that every cleaner has an EPA registration number, and that the EPA has a list of chemicals known to kill coronavirus, the trick is how long the surface has to remain wet to effectively kill it, and that there are a good number of products that the wet contact time is upwards of 10+ minutes which is hard to do when you’re trying to disinfect a household surface in low/normal humidity.
Interesting learnings anyway.
We can’t do Lysol sprays; that stuff makes breathing very difficult for me. I have a similar problem with strong perfume.
11,950,389 total cases
546,629 dead
6,895,547 recovered
In the US:
3,097,084 total cases
133,972 dead
1,354,863 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
The world will have over 12,000,000 cases tomorrow.
I don’t think full-strength Lysol is necessary. I mix mine 50-50 with orange juice or lemonade, so a bottle goes twice as far and tastes better too.
“We’re seeing things in the way Covid-19 affects the brain that we haven’t seen before with other viruses,” said Michael Zandi, a senior author on the study and a consultant at the institute and University College London Hospitals NHS foundation trust.
12,166,688 total cases
552,046 dead
7,064,772 recovered
In the US:
3,158,932 total cases
134,862 dead
1,392,679 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
New daily highs worldwide (213,280) and in the US (61,848) for new cases today.
Most of the things on the N list will work on Covid-19, they’ll just never be tested on it. And there are some disinfectant sprays that aren’t even on the N list. But they have the same exact active ingredient at or near the same concentration as one that’s on the list.
Just look for the specific active ingredient(s) on the labels of Lysol or Clorox disinfectant wipes.
For example, Lysol wipes has
Alkyl (C14 (50%), C12 (40%), C16 (10%) Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chloride in a concentration of 0.26%
OdoBan spray has the same ingredient in a concentration of 0.30%
OdoBan started showing in again in my supermarket about a week ago. They have tons of it. One reason is that it’s marketed as an air freshener/odor remover, the front label throws people off.
This is around the time it was expected that disinfectants would start coming back into general availability. I think they’ll be easier to keep in stock for consumers because there is so much focus on masks now.
Good news. Smart and sensible.
The city of Houston on Wednesday canceled plans to host the 2020 Texas Republican Convention next week as coronavirus cases surge in one of the country’s biggest virus hot spots.
Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Wednesday that he’d told the operator of the indoor convention center to opt out of its contract with Texas’ Republican Party, citing health risks to first responders, convention workers and those attending the convention event.
The convention, scheduled for July 16-18, was expected to draw roughly 6,000 attendees to Houston’s indoor George R. Brown Convention Center.
The chairman of the Texas Republican Party, James Dickey, blasted Turner’s plan to cancel the convention prior to the announcement on Wednesday, vowing “to take all necessary steps to proceed in the peaceable exercise of our constitutionally protected rights.”
The convention center operator, in a letter to the state Republican Party, cited a clause in its contract allowing it to cancel events because of pandemics.
Wow. Strange foresight to put in pandemic clause. I wonder if that’s standard.
This has more meaning if you tell us where you are.
Corvallis, OR.
I’m in a NW suburb of Chicago and I’ve seen nearly 100% indoor compliance as well. With about 50% outdoors, but it’s really reliant on the situation. Very few, if any, wear masks on their walks or yard work (myself included) but many do wear masks in more crowded situations like parks and business districts. Most are taking this very seriously around here, and that’s directly attributable to the examples set by our public officials, IME!
Yes, quite standard. I’ve seen it in insurance policies for a couple of decades, but never thought I’d ever see it come into play (at least in the US). If you host an event during an epidemic intentionally, and people get sick, that’s a huge potential liability. Hence the waivers that Trump had people sign at his indoor rally (which usually may or may not hold up in court).
Reporting full recovery among the crew, the USS Theodore Roosevelt has returned to port
The 26 legislators are about 1/6th of the total number of lawmakers in the capitol. Both the leader of the Senate and of the House have tested positive. As has the chairman of the House Public Health Committee.
12,393,492 total cases
557,491 dead
7,224,885 recovered
In the US:
3,219,999 total cases
135,822 dead
1,426,428 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison: