God is in the Details

I can understand the concerns but studies have shown that the risk of catching Covid from physical items is very low - the risk is mainly airborne and close contact with someone who has the virus is probably the biggest risk

 

Transport for London have long since abandoned the hand sanitiser stations

 

https://tfl.gov.uk/transport-accessibility/cleaning-and-air-quality

 

You do you but if you haven't had Covid 19 already I'm amazed and you've done very well to avoid it.

 

I seriously doubt that wiping everything you come into contact with with sanitiser is going to make the slightest bit of difference to your chances of catching it.

 

I had Covid in November 2019 - an unintended consequence of a holiday in North Vietnam on the border with China or migrating thro two large airport hubs I was never sure where I caught it

 

It (the original strain) was proper nasty and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but a virus that kills it's host doesn't tend to last long - it's evolved into a much less aggressive strain over time

 

Not had it since either - the human species is quite amazing in it's ability to deal with pathogens that it's had to meet.

Brass door handles and joinery left alone have been shown to be more effective than regularly changed stainless steel. 

 

My advice, put the effort into making your body stronger and more resilient, there will always be variants of bacteria and viruses that slip through the nets. 

 

Yes diabetes can make common infections worse, but there are also diabetics who run marathons. 

 

 

"How to manage contamination of the home"

Do you have lots of people spending hours in your house? As in, have you quantified the risk?

 

I would look at good ventilation and air changes as your baseline strategy, and if you have a busy area consider an air purifier. We're thinking about adding one to my wife's home office as she sees little germspreaders children for hours every day and anything that may help us stop catching their bugs is worth a try.

50 minutes ago, Sparrowhawk said:

We're thinking about adding one to my wife's home office as she sees little germspreaders children for hours every day and anything that may help us stop catching their bugs is worth a try.

Snotgobblers I call them

 

One thing I did like about Covid was it showed the world how good a childs developing immune system was and how it could take on a novel pathogen (CV-19) and just bloody laugh at it like all the other colds and coughs

 

They didn't need vaccinating and there never should have been any attempt to do that all the data screamed that!!!

Uh-oh.

Having been on an extended quiet period, my blog has gone beserk.

This is one of those "push it into the indeterminate future whilst I think about finishing it" posts from about 3 years ago :-).

Ooops.

50 minutes ago, Ferdinand said:

Uh-oh.

Having been on an extended quiet period, my blog has gone beserk.

This is one of those "push it into the indeterminate future whilst I think about finishing it" posts from about 3 years ago :-).

Ooops.

 

 

Ahh I was honestly wondering when I read the post what percentage of the population would still have concerns along the lines of your blog post - I could absolutely understand your concerns when Pandemic kicked off - fear is a massively powerful weapon and those in power in partnership with the majority of MSM and SM ramped it up to eleventy million percent with no real idea of the consequences of doing that.

 

Lockdown should have never been the answer - we will be paying for it for decades in terms of health and wealth.

 

If anyone is interested (and most probably aren't because they want to put the whole thing behind them)

 

My first trigger point was the "daily death numbers" being announced on the News like it was a tsunami of epic proportions because there was no context - I new the context already 1600 people die per day in England and Wales of natural causes and the News was trumpeting anything from 1 to 100 deaths in a day as "end of the world" stuff - how the feck does the deaths of less than 5% of the normal deaths per day get to be headline news 24/7

 

A cruise Liner the Diamond Princess gave everyone a a perfect petri dish to illustrate who was at risk. - the results didn't fit with the narative that "those in power" wanted to "spin" so it was dismissed as too small a sample

 

The original pandemic plan got ripped up and thrown in the bin in favour of "the science" which wasn't Science at all BTW

 

Any challenge to the "new science" (like GBD) was labelled "crazy" and "internet was cleansed" to stop the spread,  the authors labelled "fringe epidemiologists"

 

Those in authority got "drunk" (in some cases literally) on the new power and did everything they could to keep it whilst themselves broke the "guidance" the set for others

 

How often was a lockdown implemented after the infections had peaked?

 

We were led by a government of muppets and the opposition party instead of doing what they should do which is "hold the muppets to account" and challenging the "rules" introduced instead cried "more more more"

 

My second trigger point was when (having had Covid and recovered) a vaccination against Covid was required for my future well being.............

 

Me "Sorry I need a "vaccine" to stimulate an immune response so I am protected from something I've already had and recovered from - surely that's what post infection immunity has always been about."

 

(Ahh yes it was called "natural immunity" and we can't have that it indicates that people already have immunity and this is a new virus that has escaped from a lab doing US sponsored gain of function on coronavirus's research Sorry of course it was an unfortunate consequence of someone eating bat en croute or Pangolin lasagne

 

Jedi Mind trick "this isn't the lab you are looking for" 

 

Third trigger point - The insistence on vaccinating every man, woman and child - Encourage by the Well if you won't volunteer for a vaccine "you really do need" we will restrict your access to travel and entertainment events in order to encourage you to have one

 

The general public banged pans on doorsteps for the NHS who became the National Covid Service (concentrating solely on that and directly shortening the lives of anyone who had routine checks or any other screening process) I lost two friends - not to covid but to missed MRI's or other routine health checks that by the time they restarted the delayed findings were too damn late for them

 

That's before I even think about the initial reaction of hospitals pushing elderly patients back into care homes - like that was a (expletive deleted)ing good idea!!!  

 

If you hadn't guessed all of the Covid "over reaction" really really really (expletive deleted)ing boils my piss!!!!!

 

I know 3/10 poor rant - needed more variety in the expletives

 

Sorry I'll try to do better next time!!

Add to the list thermostat and heater controls, appliance handles and controls. Surfaces on doors that people might push other than the handle. WC handles and buttons, taps. 

 

I've just nursed SWMBO and No.2 daughter through flu with catching it so far. My hands are cracked through using so much bleachy, Fairy laden water to wipe stuff down. 

(There are several lined up for 1 Jan 2027 as well, also unfinished, that you can put in your calendars.)

 

(If you don't behave I'll bring them forward to 31/1/2026 to give you a surprise.)

2 hours ago, Ferdinand said:

(There are several lined up for 1 Jan 2027 as well, also unfinished, that you can put in your calendars.)

 

(If you don't behave I'll bring them forward to 31/1/2026 to give you a surprise.)

on that basis I think I’ll treat your future blogg posts as thread resurrections in future