What is the ultimate value?

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Many, perhaps most people believe the prime value is self-preservation and will kill others of their species to defend themselves. This is often expanded to defending their children and other members of their family. In military combat situations, the self is expanded to include their local group and many have knowingly given their own lives so their group members could live. There are many nuances to what our species will ultimately do with their lives. And yet, many healthy humans commit suicide. What was their ultimate value? It varies, obviously.

It appears that many countries and nationalities, perhaps it’s a human trait, have the goal of expanding their kind to encompass all of the available resources of the world. Presently an outside observer would observe that humanity has been astonishingly successful at propagating its species for the last few hundred years.

At one time or another, I too have probably fallen into these categories, but at present, at age 84 1/2, it feels better to just accept the ways of the world. But people who know me would probably disagree with that assessment and would claim that I follow my own self-chosen path. That amuses some and annoys many, but I am ultimately trying to enhance my whole species’ experience in this world. I do many things with the goal of active kindness. That’s not talking about being kind, which to most people seems to mean nothing more than feeling good thoughts about others and being nice to them. It is a feel-good strategy that is self-centered.

A totally different strategy appeals to me these last few years, and that is to help the Universe to become self-conscious with the goal of self-actualizing its potentials. We are the growing edge of this possibility at this time and place, but it requires setting up a method of evolving intelligence on the billion-year time scale. That is impossible for an organic species, such as ourselves, but it may well be within our technical capacity to create such an ongoing and evolving system. We are already creating evolving systems that have some sentience, as shown by Google’s ability to predict things that I am searching for. This is an evolving capacity, and it is impossible for me at this moment to guess where it might progress to in another year or two, let alone a billion years.

The Ultimate goal of intelligence, experience, is to bring wisdom into existence which has the ability to predict probable future events and preadapt to them.

What is the “Common Good”?

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Have my efforts to offer a way of easing the Covid crisis by snorting very diluted baby shampoo been a boon or curse to the Common Good? When I present this idea as a way to deal with COVID-19, there almost always comes a visible wave of disbelief in that suggestion, which is quickly followed by people waving their heads in disbelief, and a questioning expression in their crunchy faces as to my sanity.

I have tried presenting the information differently, like: We are told to wash our hands frequently because soap and water kill Covid viruses. And we should wipe down the items we often touch, like keyboards and doorknobs with soap and water because they live there too. But viruses don’t thrive on keyboards and doorknobs; they slowly die there and soap and water only hasten that process. They don’t live on our hands either, they only exist there and when we sometimes touch our faces, including our eyes, mouth, and nose, they move over there.

It is in those places where the viruses can enter our mucus membranes. It is there where they have evolved to puncture our cells’ membranes and enter into them. It is inside those cells where they live and reproduce.

Some claim that viruses don’t really live, but it is definitional. Life can be defined as living and reproducing, and a virus needs to be inside a living cell to do those things, so we can define a virus as only living when it is inside other beings’ living cells. The rest of the time it isn’t alive, but rather a batching together of proteins which is neither living nor reproducing, it just is. It isn’t alive, but it has the potential to come to life under exactly the right conditions inside living cells.

That is why I claim it is only alive when it is surviving within a cell and is capable of reproducing within that cell. The Covid virus is like Hamlet’s soliloquy, in that when the latter exists in a book in the bookstore it is only a scramble of atoms, like a virus, but when it is read it comes alive in a living brain, and if spoken aloud to an audience of living English-speaking people it comes into its real life. The soliloquy soon vanishes there in that brain as that brain becomes occupied with its other tasks involved with its host’s problems with maintaining its life.

My grander question becomes, am I interfering with my interlocutors’ functioning by discussing things that they consider to be utter nonsense? And if it is negative and makes them feel depressed? If that is the case then I am degrading their quality of life and incrementally degrading the whole of humanity.

Perhaps I could be helping them and humanity more by talking about how beautifully today’s weather is treating my garden. It would make these people happier!

A precise definition of the American Century

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Last night’s Probaway ended with, “The Chinese economy is now as fit as ever and the economy of the rest of the world is in chaos, and will soon be in shambles. China has been doing extremely well economically for a couple of decades now and will now surge ahead explosively because of the Covid pandemic.

Americans of my age cohort had a wonderful ride and will fade away with a glow, but my Probaway Person of the Year 2016 will be known historically not only as the founder of a new Chinese dynasty but as the founder of a new world order.

The twentieth century was America’s, the twenty-first century is already China’s.”

 

What struck me was the fact that the American Century began precisely with the advent of the Great Influenza of 1918-1920. The U.S. was just becoming a major power in the world; it was on a near par with the then-contending European powers, and entered quite late into WWI, and was just in the processes of transferring vast numbers of Doughboys over to Europe.

In the middle of a very long Wikipedia article on WWI, there is the paragraph:

“In November 1918, the Allies had ample supplies of men and materiel to invade Germany. Yet at the time of the armistice, no Allied force had crossed the German frontier, the Western Front was still some 720 kilometres (450 mi) from Berlin, and the Kaiser’s armies had retreated from the battlefield in good order. These factors enabled Hindenburg and other senior German leaders to spread the story that their armies had not really been defeated. This resulted in the stab-in-the-back legend,^[228][229] which attributed Germany’s defeat not to its inability to continue fighting (even though up to a million soldiers were suffering from the 1918 flu pandemic and unfit to fight), but to the public’s failure to respond to its “patriotic calling” and the supposed intentional sabotage of the war effort, particularly by Jews, Socialists, and Bolsheviks.”

What interests me about this paragraph is the line I bolded stating that a million of the German soldiers had the flu and were unable to fight. That flu was shortly after German had just defeated Russia and was transferring much of this additional army available to them against France, England, and the recently arriving U.S. armed forces.

“In December, (1917) the Central Powers signed an armistice with Russia, thus freeing large numbers of German troops for use in the west. With German reinforcements and new American troops pouring in, the outcome was to be decided on the Western Front.”

When the Great Flu fell upon them the Germans felt they were undefeated and were only agreeing to an armistice, and their armies retreated to their homeland and their homes peacefully. They had been falling back and clearly losing ground, and they couldn’t defend what they had taken with earlier battles. But I contend the reason they were failing is that their entire military and economy were suffering from the deadly 1918 flu pandemic. They lost essential supplies because they couldn’t defend the supply lines to the sources.

The US gained greater relative military strength because of WWI and received economic reparations too, which helped them to build a dominant navy. These things at the time seemed important but as WWII came into being they proved decisive and by the end of 1945 the US, with its newly acquired atom bomb capabilities, became the preeminent power. It became the Super Power. Thus, in retrospect, the United States became into its power on Armistice of 11 November 1918. Which I assert was brought about by the 1918 flu pandemic.

A similar situation exists now with the current Covid pandemic bringing the United States and the whole world into economic chaos, except for China. China is now totally in control of their Covid problem and is in a position to become the obvious preeminent economic power in the world.

China is at the moment a peaceful power, and so long as the US has the navy to keep the High Seas of the world safe for commerce, it will retain the status of the military power of the world. But that navy costs a lot of American money, and China is making lots of money because of the low cost of its world trade crossing those seas. With the world in chaos, China will thrive even better. China has the wisdom of long foresight whereas the US is still locked into its quarterly profits reports and has lost the strategic economic war, and Europe is reveling in its glorious history and tourism. Until Covid struck, tourism was Europeans’ free bounty and now what will Europe do to compete on the world stage?

The American century began with the Great Flu pandemic of 1918-1920 and ended with the Covid pandemic of 2020.

People are growing tired of Zooming; they want real people.

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Covid kills 6,607 today and my garden is looking good.

I have several Zoom groups that I participate with to stay in touch with one another. They do enhance some conversations because there is a need for only a single person to speak at one time, and that is enforced by the natural delays in the system.

I have plenty to do and to think about, so I haven’t been feeling gloomy or trapped, but some of the people I interact with seem to be getting edgy. There is the hope that if we all cooperate with the authorities that the Covid thing will just go away. But my reasoning and graphs bring me to the idea that every living human being will have antibodies to the Covid in a couple of years.

That means we will all be exposed some way or another to the disease, either by direct contagion, the development of natural resistance to the disease or by getting an artificially manufactured vaccine. There are many attempts in progress to develop and test a vaccine that will be safe and effective, but that will take what will seem like a long time. People are already tired of waiting and are growing restless, and some are already rebelling.

My personal feelings are that we must live our lives and adapt to the situations that present themselves to us. If we see Covid as a temporary problem, then we will soon be disgusted with the delays and become rebellious. On the other hand, if we think of Covid as a several-year process, then we must resign ourselves to many inconveniences and do our best to avoid getting or spreading the disease.

Both approaches are unpleasant, but the long-term approach leaves plenty of possibilities for having many pleasant times in the coming years and not getting angry. The short-term approach will lead to anger and later to fury.

Gardening isn’t interesting for a rambunctious youth, so it will be a very difficult time for them.

The world cases of Covid are a bit better.

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USA cases of Covid deaths are a bit worse. Thus, this disease may be going into a decline, as is expected for the hot summer months, or it may be getting worse because Americans aren’t obeying the official suggestions well enough. Or, perhaps the small movements on the graph are just some form of variation or bias in reporting. But those things don’t matter much. What matters is that many people are dying, and I have proposed a realistic solution that might work, but it is ridiculed and ignored? The officials admit that they don’t have a cure, and are unwilling to seek a workable one. Instead, they are working on a vaccine that won’t be ready until many people have died.

Note the world cases are a slight bit to the right of the case projection line but are still rising rapidly, as are the deaths.

(Update for my tiny mistake. Usually, I update the data numbers after finishing the graphics. It takes over an hour to do those graphics depending on style changes and realignment of the new dots, their connecting lines and moving the text and their guiding arrows to aid visibility.

My mistake was SAVING my graphic 2 hours 41 minutes, early without updating it. From a Worldometers tag I see that I “Last updated: April 21, 2020, 05:19 GMT”. That showed up with total world cases of 2,332,471. There were still nearly three hours of data that could have, and should have been included in the graphic. This morning, nine hours later, I see that number has changed from 2,332,471 to 2,530,095, which means there is a gap of 197,624 cases. And, 170,471 deaths to 174,727, which means I have 1,276 left dead people in a numerical limbo. Is, “I’m sorry!” a proper apology?)

So, I work in my garden and in the evenings do inane rewrites of the obvious and almost certainly unnecessary suffering of humanity.

Covid had killed 45 by Jan15; today alone it’s 4,984

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As I write this post, 165,073 is the current total Covid death count. Yesterday’s logarithmic graph points towards 300,000 deaths by May 1st.

“Mayday, Mayday, Mayday” is the universal call for “Help! I am in deadly peril!” I hope that graph is totally wrong! Italy appears to be making a rollover of its curve, but the USA’s curve, even with its national stay at home policy, is getting worse.

Earlier today, I delivered a five-minute monologue to a small group on the reasons that Dove soap would slow the development of Covid. Unfortunately, I think I created more resistance to the idea than agreement.

Charles Scamahorn of Earthark getting a Darwin Award sticker from Wendy Northcutt

Along with my Darwin Award, I think I should receive a World’s Worst Salesman Award. If there isn’t one I think there is an opportunity for someone to write a book on the subject. If ever there was an obvious way to save perhaps a billion human lives, surely this sinus cleansing is a possibility.

And yet, I feel that I’m being treated like a lunatic when I talk about the possibility of disinfecting the phlegm in one’s nose with soap suds. A simple expulsion of snot would clear away even more of them loosened with the soap. Everyone seems to agree that soap suds will kill the virus on the hands, but they hit a wall of disbelief that it would kill the same virus when inside the nose.

Alas! Will it be another 5,000 needless deaths tomorrow?

 

HELP! The world needs doctors to help to kill COVID-19 viruses.

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Of the nearly eight billion people on planet Earth, there are approximately 1.5 doctors per thousand people. That’s very approximately 140 million doctors. Only one doctor, of this huge community, is needed to test this method of preventing the spread of COVID-19. The question that he would ask his incoming patients is,

“Are you willing to perform a simple and safe experiment of cleansing your nose three times a day with this very mild antiviral solution that I will give you? This is intended to wash away the COVID-19 viruses from inside your nose and thus prevent the disease from spreading to your lungs when you inhale and to save other people from getting the disease when you cough.”

If the patients’ disease is in the sinuses and mild, as most are, this cleansing will help prevent it from getting worse by inhibiting the mucus in the nose from getting into their lungs. We need doctors to give this cleansing solution and to do a followup to verify adherence and thus to compare the effectiveness of the cleansing. Also, the given solution could be varied in strength to discover the minimum amount that is effective at killing COVID-19 and the maximum amount that is tolerated by the patients. Once this is verified to work, it could instantly be sent online to every doctor in the world, and end the pandemic.

One drop of HIBICLENS or one drop of Povidone-iodine in a liter of clean water will be a starting solution. I have personally snorted these solutions from the flat of my hand without any problem. However, I don’t know if these dilute solutions of known virus-killing agents are sufficient to kill COVID-19, and that is why I am asking doctors in practice around the world to give this concentration a try. If it works, this will bring the pandemic to an end, and if it needs a stronger solution that too will soon be discovered. It is acknowledged that the present treatments are only palliative, to treat the symptoms, and not a cure. This cleansing of the nasal passages might work where all other treatments have failed. Ultimately, millions of people’s lives might be saved by using this nose cleansing method.

This cleansing treatment doesn’t kill the viruses in the flesh of the nose, but it does prevent the viruses from moving into the lungs where they are deadly. Limiting COVID-19 to the nose for a week or two will probably convey lifelong immunity to that disease.

Be cautious in the level of dosage given, as these cleansing agents are probably dangerous in the nose at less than 90% dilution.  The starting dilution I recommend is one drop per liter, and that is about a 5000 to 1 dilution. Watch the video for a demonstration of testing the snorting of various concentrations of possible sinus-cleansing solutions.

Legal disclaimer – This is an experimental procedure and you alone are responsible for your actions.

(Update – This vido was taken down by YouTube because it appeared to recommend a dangerous procedure. One drop of a standard medical soap Hibiclens in a liter of water doesn’t appear dangerous to me and I proved it by snorting a palm full of this dilution to cleans my sinus of Covid. That is about a 5000 to 1 dilution, and I didn’t have the slightest effects. But, I never contested their ruling and had already posted a video me snorting a similar dilution of Baby Shampoo, so far they haven’t complained about that. If babies can snort it and drink it why not adults.)

The point is to kill the COVID-19 viruses and not the people.

 

 

 

The authorities are optimistic, my logarithmic charts are horrible!

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COVID-19 is claimed by the political authorities to be about to turn a corner, and that we can very soon get back to our normal lives. However, if you look at the chart below based on the reported data, the disease appears to be growing exponentially. On a logarithmic chart, data based on living things with an unlimited food supply and an otherwise open situation will grow in a straight line on the graph. In 2014 the Ebola epidemic followed a straight line until great efforts brought it under control, but it took ten months to get that effort into play. Unfortunately for today’s humanity, this type of disease has a much higher rate of transmission from one human to another, and so it is growing much faster.

The logarithmic graph line of the COVID-19 disease, after an explosion of cases the first two months, has been remarkably straight on the logarithmic chart. Now it has reached very large numbers of people and yet it has only struck about 1 out of 8,000 people so far. That means it has plenty of food, people, and not much other than the social isolation of people to impede its growth. Even that huge effort will only slow the progression and not stop the disease from reaching every human on earth. Only individual immunity created by exposure to the disease will stop it. Even Bill Gates, who has thrown over two billion dollars at it, can not create a vaccine in time to make much of a difference. Even he admits that a vaccine will take many months to get created, made and distributed. A continuation of the current growth would result in infecting every person in only four more months. That probably won’t happen because these types of diseases usually taper off for the hot dry summer months, but return with full force in the fall. But COVID-19 will eventually create some degree of immunity in nearly every living person. The viruses and we humans are in a natural evolutionary struggle for survival. They won’t kill us all, and we won’t kill all of them.

Look at the charts, and observe that the COVID-19 has already gone six of the ten orders of magnitude to infecting everyone. We are already more than halfway through the infection but according to the chart below it will get much worse because we still have four orders of magnitude to go.

Observe the dark blue lines on the left and the gold projections from them. These lines are based on published data and not hopes.

A new video of “Probaway” snorting HIBICLENS surgeons soap to kill COVID-19 in his sinuses.

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Some things are obvious once they are understood, and washing your sinuses to kill COVID-19 fits that category. No one wants to get soap into their nose, but HIBICLENS, when diluted, is not unpleasant when sniffed and it has been proven by forty years experience by surgeons to kill viruses. Therefore, it is obvious that to kill these viruses in our sinuses we must do more than wash our hands, we must wash our sinuses. Here’s a video where yours truly, “Probaway,” shows you how to wash your sinuses.

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This video shows how to mix and use HIBICLENS surgeons’ hand soap to make a very dilute solution that is comfortable in the nose and effective for killing viruses, including COVID-19 virus. The demonstration is how to put a single drop of HIBICLENS into a quart of distilled water where it foams well when shaken. Then there is a demonstration of how to sniff a quarter teaspoonful of the solution and snort it around inside your nose to cover the sinuses. Since this soap is effective in killing germs on surgeons’ hands, it will be effective at killing the COVID-19 in your nose where these viruses live and multiply.

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This video needs to go viral to save thousands of lives!

I recommend external soap, not internal medicine.

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I am not playing doctor and I am not practicing medicine when I suggest that you use soap to combat COVID-19. Doctors prescribe many ways for coping with maladies, such as drugs, vaccinations, surgeries, oxygen intubations, and drug-charged salves for treating skin problems. They might also prescribe keeping your body clean before having a surgical procedure using the soap HIBICLENS. It has been used by surgeons for decades for killing viruses on the outside of the body. I too am recommending HIBICLENS, an over-the-counter soap, for your personal cleaning. 

It is a bit of an arbitrary definition whether the nasal passages are external or internal. Is where you pick your nose with your fingernail a short distance inside of your nose a medical procedure within your body? Is going an inch further within your nose to the sinuses and washing them with water a medical procedure? Is using a neti pot to flush the sinuses a medical procedure? And if you put HIBICLENS diluted to one drop per gallon of distilled water into the neti pot before using it, would you be committing a crime? 

I have been doing some experiments with HIBICLENS, trying to find what I believe to be an effective concentration of this soap for cleansing your sinuses and killing the viruses on the outside of your skin, in the sinuses. I suspect that a dilution of 1 drip of HIBICLENS in a gallon of distilled water (~4 liters) will kill the COVID-19 viruses and that sniffing (snorting) 1/4 of a teaspoonful at that dilution will flush the sinuses and kill the virus.

These last few weeks I have suggested various dilutions, and I believe all of them will work, but I am concerned that many people will get the dilution wrong. Sniffing straight HIBICLENS will probably cause you serious harm, and sniffing straight distilled water won’t kill any viruses.

Here is a test for verifying the strength. First, fill a gallon clear glass jug with distilled water and shake it. Note that all of the bubbles will vanish quickly, within a second. Now add one drop of HIBICENS to the water and shake it. You will notice that there are many bubbles at fifteen seconds but all but the tiny bubbles will burst within thirty seconds. The fact that even a day later the bubbles last for thirty seconds suggests that the potency of that soap is functional. Below is a small update in italics on my post from two days ago.

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How to save your life and other people’s lives too.

Wash your hands and face normally with your normal soap. Then wash your nostrils and sinus with highly diluted chlorhexidine gluconate, one drop per quart of water. A quarter of a teaspoon of this dilute solution sniffed into the back of the nose and snorted for a few seconds and then rinsed away with salted water will kill viruses in your sinuses for several hours. Do one quarter teaspoon sniff before encountering the public in the morning and another quarter teaspoon sniff when departing from the public in the evening, and another quarter teaspoon of solution diluted four to one sniff before retiring at night. Those three sniffs from that very weak solution from a single drop may be enough to fight off COVID-19 until a vaccine is developed. Also, by the end of your supply, we will all know if it works or doesn’t work. The link above is for public officials to purchase larger quantities. For more Wikipedia information, see chlorhexidine gluconate.

If it works, we will rejoice. If it doesn’t work, we will just get lots more of what we are now getting.

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This new procedure amounts to three applications about eight hours apart. The stronger ones are when about to encounter the public and when departing the public and a weaker one when about to be sleeping for eight hours.

The first application protects the people you are about to encounter from your possible infection and lays a light base of residual HIBICLENS on your sinuses that will inhibit acquiring some viruses.

The second application is to kill any viruses picked up during the day out in public and limit your production of viruses within your sinuses. This may be a good thing too because it will help limit your disease to being very mild and that will give you immunity to catching it again.

The third application late in the evening will help suppress any viruses growing on the surfaces of your sinuses, and it will help to prevent a transfer of these to your family.

The data reports coming in are that the pandemic is still growing exponentially. It’s time to clean up your nose!