Brewers and bottlers please save us from COVID-19

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Social isolation and cleaning our hands is not enough to STOP the novel coronavirus from ultimately infecting nearly everyone. Like the common cold, it will probably become a background disease that recurs occasionally. Like the cold, it is primarily in the sinuses, throat, and lungs but it brings on a fever throughout the body. Usually, the disease is caught from the spray of droplets from another person’s cough or sneeze, or from touching a contaminated surface like a doorknob and then one’s nose, eyelids, or mouth.

All the world knows those things well enough but none or few can prevent the disease from happening to them personally. What is obvious is that we need to wash our hands but even more important we need to wash our sinuses and throats, because that is where colds and COVID-19 grow. COVID-19 virus doesn’t grow on the hands or doorknobs, it only survives there. It is in the sinuses that it grows, and from there sneezed droplets fly out and infect other people. And it is from the sinuses that infected postnasal drip enters a person’s throat and lungs and a life-threatening disease develops.

We need to eliminate the novel coronavirus from our sinus. Some of the disease process will be growing in the flesh of our sinus, and this virus will require presently non-existing drugs and vaccines to destroy them. Maybe we will have effective drugs next year, and maybe not but the COVID-19 disease is here now and killing people.

But the viruses that are the worst problem are not the ones that are already embedded in the sinuses. The problem is the viruses that are moving out of the sinuses and into people’s lives, and the viruses post-nasal dripping out of the sinuses and into the infected person’s lungs. When these viruses are external to the body, even in the nose, they can be killed with handwashing soaps and detergents. We know this to be true because they are routinely killed by people washing their hands. The obvious solution for getting rid of COVID-19 viruses in one’s sinuses is to wash those sinuses and kill the viruses when they are outside of the flesh and exposed to the outside world.

I have been experimenting with different methods for washing my sinuses with a very mild dilution of the detergent HIBICLENS. It is available over the counter or on the web. It is safe and effective and has been used by surgeons at full strength, washing it off with water, before they do open surgery operations.

A comfortable sinus wash can be created by mixing one drop of Hibiclens into 200 milliliters of distilled water. That equals 1 to 3084 dilutions. At this level of dilution, the water still holds a foam when shaken in a bottle, and that shows that it has enough surface tension to rip apart COVID-19 and kill it. When sniffed into the nose and snorted back and forth in the sinuses for a few seconds it will probably kill the COVID-19. Doing this procedure when irritation is already occurring will inhibit the disease from spreading further. Doing the procedure when exposed to another person with the disease will probably prevent you from succumbing to it.

“Chlorhexidine, the active ingredient in Hibiclens, is a broad-spectrum antiseptic skin cleanser that is proven effective against a wide range of bacteria, fungi, viruses and yeast. Washing with chlorhexidine kills bacteria by disrupting the cell membrane.”

“Hibiclens is a 4% chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) solution for patient cleansing and skin antisepsis which has been trusted by hospitals and healthcare professionals for more than 40 years.” https://hibiclens.com/healthcare/

The method suggested for the sinuses for using Hibiclens is very different from the usual rubbing full-strength solution onto the wet skin and then applying water to work up a lather. The recommended usages for Hibiclens at full strength are all external. The eyes and ears are to be avoided at that concentration of Hibiclens or blindness may occur, or deafness.

The plea to brewers and bottlers and others dealing with large numbers of bottled liquids is to supply your public with small bottles of water with a single drop of Hibiclens mixed in. This may save some of your customer’s lives and benefit you for your public service.

If this method of cleaning the sinuses works to kill COVID-19, the current pandemic will soon come to an end and your popularity and business will thrive.

 

 

Logarithmic projections of COVID-19 get worse.

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Here are this evening’s facts from Worldometers and my graphics which include logarithmic projections for the world cases and world deaths. The projections are simply picking a well-documented date of data and drawing a line through it to a more recent well-documented date of data, and then doing a straight line doubling of that line. Except for China, the projected line, shown in dashed dark yellow, has proven to be a good prediction. China imposed draconian restrictions on the localities infected with the COVID-19 disease, and they were successful in largely eliminating it. See the chart below for lots more details and the surprising explosion of the disease in the United States. It has already surpassed China and hasn’t been contained. Perhaps the current policies of keeping people at home will work. I think my plan to suppress the disease with dilute nasal washes of the surgeon’s hand washes will help.

We people of earth are in for a memorable year 2020. With 20 20 vision, some of the grief could have been prevented.

What is the right % of Hibiclens for nose wash?

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Yesterday, I did a few experiments based on how Hibiclens felt in my sinus before forming a recommendation. Today I did some more experiments, but this time it was for the foaming of the Hibiclens when mixed with water and shaken to create foam.

One measured cup of distilled water has been poured into a beverage bottle.

A drinking straw has been dipped into Hibiclens, held inside the straw with a finger pressed over the opening to prevent the fluid from flowing out.

One drop of Hibiclens was dripped into the bottle and has just been shaken as shown by the small bubbles below the foam.

One drop of Hibiclens makes foam which goes away in a minute.

10 drops of Hibiclens in a cup of water and shaken still has foam 5 minutes later.

As you will see in the photos above a single drop of Hibiclens in a cup of distilled water will give some foam, but ten drops will give more foam that will last for five minutes. That implies to me the Hibiclens will be more effective at that concentration.

From yesterday’s experiments at double that concentration, which I used without any burning in my sinuses or other ill effects, it seems okay to use twenty drops of Hibiclens per cup of water, but today’s experiments demonstrate that it keeps its foam okay with ten drops.

You don’t need to leave the concentrated solution in your nose all the time, and doing a sinus rinse followed by a saline nasal rinse a few times per day should be enough. If, however, you are in a location where there are actively sick people, doing one of these rinses after every exposure would seem reasonable.

This is all in the experimental stage, but the Covid-19 doubles every few days in an active community, so we don’t have the time to do longitudinal studies. We must act on our best analysis of the facts. 1. Hibiclens has been used for many years by doctors for washing hands before going into surgery and has proven its effectiveness. 2. The published evidence is that washing hands with soap is a preventative for transferring Covid-19 from the fingers to the nose. 3. If surface Covid-19 can be eliminated from the sinuses then postnasal drip loaded with the disease will not get into the lungs and cause death. 4. It is older people who have trouble swallowing and closing their epiglottis, to keep mouth fluids from going into the lungs, who are at most risk from Covid-19 and are having the most mortality. But, we all will benefit by gaining immunity from further coronavirus diseases from having a mild case in our nose now rather than a deadly disease from postnasal drip of disease into our lungs.

This use of a mild but effective standard cleanser to clean the sinuses has the possibility of saving many lives.

Update – Coronavirus pandemic comparison chart

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The terrible coronavirus accelerates.

Click the image to make it bigger and look carefully at the blue line topping out at 308,227 World cases. You will notice that it is tilting a bit upward. That is significant because it means that although China has gotten control of its ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the rest of the world hasn’t.

This chart has plotted a straight dashed light-blue line beginning on February 1st and ending on March 15th. That was a line based on six weeks of collected data. It was then doubled in length to project the coronavirus’s possible progress into the future six weeks.

This chart is semi-logarithmic and goes from a single unit at the bottom to ten billion at the top; thus it includes all the eight billion now-living people. When the light blue line is projected to the top, it would mean that every person on earth would contract the coronavirus by September 9th, 2020 (9/9/2020). That won’t happen, but if only one person in one hundred died of this disease it would equal the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. On the straight-line semi-logarithmic chart we have already gone halfway to reaching that unwanted goal. The seriousness of this problem is why I will be posting some strange things to do that are clearly unusual.

When you catch the coronavirus, do not let nasal drip-laden disease get into your lungs. STOP POST-NASAL DRIP.

Covid gives me more time to garden.

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And it's closed!, Coronavirus - COVID-19, Planning for coronavirus

The whole society here in Bend, Oregon, has shut down! I go to UU Fellowship on Sundays, and once or more a week for other events, and it’s shut down. I go to First Presbyterian Church for a great book study group once a week and it’s shut down. I go to The Commons coffee shop twice a week to visit with friends, and it’s shut down. I go to Dudley’s Bookshop at least once a week for events and meeting friends, and it’s shut down. I go to Barnes and Noble bookstore once a week to read and meet friends, and its coffee shop is closed. All that fuss with six cases of Covid in the vast expanse of eastern Oregon. By my projections based on the past months, which are displayed on yesterday’s post, we will all get this disease within a year, and only old people like me are even at much risk. The whole economy has shut down for geriatrics living in closed communities. My response, and it’s what I was going to do anyway, is spending more time in my garden. Hopefully, not pushing up the flowers.

Forty steps directly behind this photo is the Commons, and everything about my life there is this beautiful.

That is about half of the eight cubic yards of dirt that I hauled to the back yard with 61 wheelbarrow loads.

This photo was taken early in the enterprise, with about 12 loads brought in to get the layout set for the rest.

And then, the snows came. This is about one inch of snow of about six inches that accumulated later that night.

I coped with that problem by planting 70 quarts of dirt in yogurt containers in my south window.

The plan is to put two or three more extensions on the greenhouse framework and then stretch the 6 mil special PVC plastic over the top. Last year worked out okay, but it went up a little late. In the two-to-six-week frame of time, that greenhouse will be filled with beautiful growing things.

There wasn’t enough snow this winter to test out my new Snowshoos.

 

My city and my groups shut down.

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The shutdown begins

I’ve been getting emails today stating that various groups are not going to be meeting for a month or so. What that really means is that they are not going to be meeting until this Coronavirus pandemic is over. Or at least until everyone gets tired of all the fussing around without any real problem existing anymore.

Nearly everyone I’ve talked to seems to be concerned and thinking that they are prepared for whatever is going to happen, and yet only a few had any hand alcohol cleanser. Probably, just avoiding people is going to be the best option. People seem to be a little worried about my sanity when I give them my wiggly fingers over my forehead gesture hello, but then seem to warm to the idea.

In addition to doing the media-suggested things I have been going into my hot baths routine or raising my body temperature to a low fever once a day. Just before writing this post I raised my temperature from 96.8°F to 100.2. Part of being old is having a lower body temperature, and I suspect that their low temperature may be one of the factors that makes the elderly more prone to getting the disease more severely. Their antibodies are slow to kick into high gear. By then it’s too late and the disease progresses to their lungs, and that’s the fatal problem.

Anyway, I’m watching to see if I did catch the coronavirus from the medical folks yesterday who were sneezing. 

The survival kit #11 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Save the medics.

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As Covid-19 covers the world everyone will be exposed, and it is the older people who are at most risk of dying. Those who are exposed to it first will be the first to have a component of their cohort to die.

With those simple relationships clear in mind, it becomes obvious that the older people in the medical professions are at maximum risk of catching Covid and dying. Therefore, it is also obvious that we should and must seek to protect these critically important members of our society.

My suggestion and hopes are that the doctors, nurses, and close medical interfaces with the sick public be protected. That those who are over the age of forty be transferred to jobs that are less exposed to the Covid virus. The younger person replacing them may catch Covid but for them, it will mostly be a mild disease, and they can be back on the job within a few days or a month at most, and hopefully, they will be immunized against a further episode of that sickness. There will probably be further diseases contracted by those people weakened by Covid, and these can be treated more safely by the older medical personnel at the beginning of an outbreak.

This procedure is similar to a medical triage in that it is an effort to save and bring back to normality a maximum number of people.

The survival kit #10 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = How to cure Covid..

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Every responsible medical site says the same thing … There is no cure for COVID-19. They then go on with the same litany of what you should do, such as drink plenty of water (that should include a teaspoon of salt, nine teaspoons of sugar per quart), get plenty of rest (avoid other people while resting), seek medical help if you are having trouble breathing (that is, the disease has gotten to your lungs and your risk of dying is high).

Hasn’t medical science advanced one bit in a hundred years? That advice isn’t substantially different from what my grandmother would have told me about the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, back in 1939 when I had a cold. That epidemic killed between 17 and 100 million people of a world population of 1,900 million, or as much as 1 in 19 people. Back then we didn’t have the massive tourist mixing of people worldwide as we do now, at least not the swift mixing provided by jet airplanes.

Here are some personal preventatives that might work, and the whys.

For a couple of days, while you are healthy, check your under-the-tongue temperature every hour and write those numbers down so you will quickly know when you are getting a fever. If you are up a degree and feeling a bit sick in the nose, immediately take a warm bath and raise your body temperature to 101.0°F for five minutes and then get out of the tub and cool off normally. The intention of this voluntary fever is to cooperate with your body’s fever mechanism, which is its method for warning your disease-fighting mechanisms to get to work. If in a couple of days you are still mildly sick, in the nose, do the warm bath two times per day for several more days, until you are sure you are okay.

Covid-19 usually begins in the nose, probably in the nostrils, because that is where contact is most frequently made between a person’s fingers and their mucus membranes. Therefore, mentally practice not touching your nose. Think about your nose itching and then resisting and not touching your face and especially your nose. Meditators think about their breathing and all sorts of other physical bodily stuff and this practice might save their lives and yours.

Put capsaicin on your fingertips. It is an over-the-counter arthritis topical analgesic available at drug stores. When you touch your nose, lips, and eyelids with these capsaicin-laden fingers, it will burn for a while and remind you not to do that.

When Covid-19 is in your community, tie a string around your wrists and attach it to your stomach belt. That will mechanically prevent you from touching your nose, lips, and eyelids.

Here are some cures that might work, and the whys.

Covid-19 is mild when it is confined to the nose, and if it remains there it may not be noticed by the infected person, and they would develop an immunity. But even in the mild stage, it can unknowingly be transmitted to other people. If the virus doesn’t move to the throat and down to the lungs, the person will probably develop resistance to further infections from that disease. But, if the virus establishes itself in the lungs, death is a real possibility.

Make every effort to prevent the Covid-19 from moving from the nose to the lungs. If you can do that for a week, in a month you will probably get well and because of your Covid resistance, you will be a perfect person to volunteer to help those people who are desperately sick.

When you have some snot in your nose and sinuses, blow-out and absolutely don’t snort-in. Sometimes snort is called sniff or sniffle. When you suck in snot and swallow it, as many males do, and few females do, it is pulling some of the Covid-19 viruses into the throat and possibly the lungs. Also, don’t snort in snot and spit it out into public places, because that spit is contagious for a while. Put sick spit where it belongs, in the toilet or down the sink.

While the Covid-19 is confined to the nose and sinuses, it might be impeded from going into the throat and lungs. Use a mouth rinse frequently such as Listerine, Cepacol, Aesop, Peroxyl, or CloSYS. Perhaps taking a half-teaspoon of whiskey straight every half hour, while sick, and holding it in the mouth as long as possible would help. It might impede the disease. I don’t imply more than an ounce or two of whiskey per day, as that would probably be counter-productive.

Using a nose gel such as NasoGEL helps create a flow of mucus out of the nasal passages and sinus, but the fluids might go down the throat as easily as out the nose. Be careful to get the snot out not in.

When you are sick in bed it is probably best not to lie on your back because that makes it easier for fluids to flow into the lungs. It is better to lie on one’s left side or face down with a pillow arranged to make these positions comfortable.

Cultivate the ability to do a deep throat slow vibration huffing sound to help pull stuff up and out of the lungs.

I speculate that these suggestions will help, and it’s better than what is being suggested elsewhere.

 

 

The survival kit #9 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Protect your lungs!

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Avoid contact with the Coronavirus

The Coronavirus comes into your nose from another person who is infected with the disease. Your first line of defense is to watch for people with a fever and stay away from them. The second is to greet people with the Covid salute, which is identical to the American Sign Language approval sign of your fingers pointed up above your head and wiggling. It may look silly to see people looking at one another wiggling their fingers but the point is to be friendly and maintain a slightly greater distance from others while talking to them. And avoid handshakes and body hugs. Wash your hands and face as often as possible, and use hand sanitizers too.

Avoid people if you have a fever or a dry cough

The coronavirus typically begins with an infection in the nose and proceeds to the sinuses. I have been suggesting training yourself to not touch your nose with your fingers by putting capsaicin on your fingertips. It will burn your nostrils when you poke your finger into them and you will soon learn not to do that.

Isolate your coronavirus infection to your nose

When you catch coronavirus, stay home and avoid physical contact with your friends and family and all of you should wear approved masks. Now comes the tricky part because you will have to be conscious of nonstandard actions! Instead of sucking into your nose when it’s itching with a vibrating action, get in the habit of blowing out and into a tissue. The point of this action is to prevent the coronavirus from moving down into your throat and lungs and creating an infection there.

Isolate your coronavirus infection to your throat. 

If you reach this stage of the disease, you will probably feel sick enough to be bedridden. It is very important not to let the coronavirus get into your lungs. It is in your lungs that coronavirus becomes deadly. It may be difficult to create a habit of coughing gently outward every minute or so after the disease had descended into your lungs. Taking Mucinex tablets will probably help. It is an over-the-counter medicine that is designed to facilitate the outward flow of natural fluids that are normally found in the lungs. The hope is that the mucus will be driven outward by tiny flapping cilia fibers, and the outward flow will be easier if you are lying horizontally. (Cilia are plasma membrane protrusions that act as cellular propellers or antennae. … These structures include the transition fibers, which connect the distal basal body to the base of the ciliary membrane, and the Y-links, which connect the proximal axoneme and ciliary membrane within the transition zone.)

Save your vital organs with oxygen supplements.

At this point in the coronavirus disease development, you should be in a hospital and getting professional medical help. That will probably include extra oxygen being put into your nose. It might be possible to get a DEDAKJ oxygen concentrator for your home, but they seem to be sold out. About now you should be considering Your Last Will and Testament.

Keep the Coronavirus as far away from your lungs as possible.

The survival kit #6 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Hot baths.

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The new epidemic disease, COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus, has some similarities to the common cold; therefore, my cure for the common cold, which I have been using since 1993, might have similar results. Over those years I have ringed around the methods discussed below with experiments, and presently think the suggested method is near ideal.

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For more detail on the quote below go to – Probaway.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/

“A short-list of some common-cold fighting posts.

• A cue for the common cold using 105° F baths.
• Reducing the flu threat for everyone.
• The cure for the common cold is six 102°F degree fevers.
• The Bird flu is coming sooner or later—so prepare for it

These are personal observations, but they have proven very effective for curing my cases of flu. In fact, the only colds I have had since discovering this technique in 1993, when I had a cold which became annoying to the point of a teaspoon full of snot, (the quantity of snot is a good measure of the severity of a flu) have been tests where I did only one hot bath per day. That wasn’t enough to keep the flu at bay; on the other hand, three baths per day worked just fine but took up too much time. Two baths worked just fine, and I was able to carry on with my daily life as if there were no symptoms at all. Also, this technique has the advantage of keeping my viral load so small that I am not communicating the disease to people with whom I come into contact.”

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For more detail on the quote below, first published on paper Proba-95, go to –

probaway.com/Flu/flu.htm

Here is How to Cooperate With Your Body’s Effort to Destroy the Flu.[The following temperatures have been lowered a bit from Proba-95.] At the first sign that you are catching the flu, heat your whole body temperature up to a mild fever, 102.0° F, by any means readily available. Use an oral fever thermometer to get it right. Ideally this self-induced fever can be produced by immersing yourself in a bath of 103° F water for five minutes followed by raising the water temperature to 106° F for about ten minutes. After adjusting the bath to 106° F, which will feel a bit uncomfortable, just lie there deep in the water and soak in the heat and let the tub temperature drift back down to about 105° F, by the end of the ten-minute period. You may have to reheat the water to keep it at 105°+. Use your thermometer to measure your mouth temperature and the bath temperature alternatively until you reach 102° F. After the ten-minute heat soak get out and towel off. Then rest and perspire and let your body adjust to its natural temperature. These times and temperatures are based on a 180-pound man so if you are much different in size make adjustments. A smaller body will heat up faster so 105° F times ten minutes might be better for one hundred-pound people. Do not force anyone to do this procedure…especially children or people with known physical problems. This induced fever must be self-administered. If before the time in the tub is up you start to feel nauseated dizzy or have unusual heartbeats, get out immediately and cool down. In fact, I recommend having a person close by monitoring the whole affair just in case you faint. You are sick, after all. After you get out of the bath, you should feel a bit warm for about an hour and then completely normal for the next six hours. Redo the bath as above once every eight hours for two days (or every 12 hours for 3 days)—that is a minimum of six hot baths. My experience with this procedure is that 50 hours after the first bath I have been totally cured of the feeling of flu. However, I do recommend taking a hot bath at least once a day for a few more days, as a precaution against a relapse. If, at the beginning of the flu, your body starts to develop a chill or fever on its own, take your hot bath then and try to adjust the cycle of your intentional fevers to its natural ones.

(Perhaps for Coronavirus a few more days of hot baths would ensure that you are over this dangerous disease.)

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https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/66A/5/487/571283

This study measured 18,630 white adults aged 20–98 years and found that eighty-year-old people have lower body temperatures than middle-aged adults. I wonder if the high death rate of older people afflicted with the Coronavirus was because their lower body temperature was slower to attack the disease. If that is true, which can only be discovered by a large test, then the hot bath technique would be helpful in reducing their symptoms.

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Each of these Survival Kit blog posts is a speculative exploration of a way of coping with Coronavirus disease. It is not a suggestion for you to do any of these things.