Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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DisneyCane

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EvilChameleon said:
Ah, nice of you to be crying out "fake news" in a moment of crisis. We all see where your allegiances lie, and it isn't with the living.
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Yes. I am a horrible person to try and stop the spread of misinformation. How can I do such a terrible thing in a crisis?

mmssbrg2 said:
The virus has a lipid envelope. Basically it's surrounded in a layer of fat. Soap has properties that break down the fat layer. The virus needs its envelope to attach to the target cell. Without its envelope, it's essentially deactivated.
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Good that you can quote the article. Here is an excerpt from an article on Harvard's web site. Are they not a respected enough source?

Soap and water don't kill germs; they work by mechanically removing them from your hands. Running water by itself does a pretty good job of germ removal, but soap increases the overall effectiveness by pulling unwanted material off the skin and into the water. In fact, if your hands are visibly dirty or have food on them, soap and water are more effective than the alcohol-based "hand sanitizers" because the proteins and fats in food tend to reduce alcohol's germ-killing power. This is one of the main reasons soap and water is still favored in the food industry.
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If you want to verify that the excerpt was not altered, you can read it at https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/The_handiwork_of_good_health

If that one single chemistry professor was correct, other infectious disease experts and biochemistry experts would be saying the same thing. Again, if soap actually killed the virus then they wouldn't need to be putting out a list of sanitizers that are shown to kill it. They'd just say to mix up some soap and water and spray it onto surfaces.
 
LAKid53

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IanDLBZF said:
www.wftv.com

TIMELINE: Coronavirus updates March 12

A 68-year-old man is the first presumptive case in Seminole County. The man was part of a Nile River cruise that has been a source of concern for COVID-19 cases in Central Florida.
www.wftv.com www.wftv.com
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Boy, did that TV station get it wrong. DISNEYLAND is closing Sunday through the end of the month, in compliance with Governor Newsome's order to cancel or postpone gatherings of 250 or more.
 
ImperfectPixie

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Josh Hendy said:
Quite a few people expressed the hope or expectation that the virus will be drastically slowed down with the coming of warm weather. Is there any data on that yet? For example comparing northern and southern US states.
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Unfortunately, not really.

ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu

Seasonality of SARS-CoV-2: Will COVID-19 go away on its own in warmer weather?

Marc Lipsitch, DPhil Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (tl;dr) Probably not. Several people, including the …
ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu
 
TP2000

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Figments Friend said:
It's official.

WDW closing.

Cnn -

www.cnn.com

Walt Disney World closes, paralyzing the company's tourism empire

Disney's tourism business has come to a halt because of the coronavirus.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

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I think it is fair to say that none of us ever thought we would see this day. By Monday all of Disney's theme park properties around the world, and the Cruise Line, will be closed for weeks.

Truly bizarre and something people will tell their grandkids about (if they make that type of lifestyle choice to have grandkids, not that there's anything wrong with that).
 
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MisterPenguin

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Bartattack said:
We know other coronaviruses and their behaviour and we know that they usually 'disappear' during summer months and are more active during winter.
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We know that because of what causes that cycle: the school year.

The school year starts in the Fall with putting lots of children together in one building with the younger ones practically unable to practice good hygiene. It spreads thru the schools and back to the families. Parents bring it to work and spread it to coworkers. Coworkers bring it home to their family and kids who live in a different school district. The kids bring it to the new school district.

This happens every year with colds and flus peaking a few months after the start of the school year and then die out by the end of the school year.

This is why people *assume* that warm weather kills the viruses and cold weather incubates it. It doesn't. Scientific study over and over and over again shows that the the ambient temperature of the environment or the person has no or nearly negligible effect on how contagious a virus is.

Catching a 'cold' because one is 'cold' is a myth. The weather in Iran is warm and CV19 spread like wildfire there.
 
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