"Complete Sterilization" - Disinfectant Tunnel May Be Key To Bringing Back Pro Sports
Coming to the Big House?
An Israeli company had the ingenious idea of designing a disinfecting tunnel that is currently being tested at a major sports stadium.
"When people walk through the tunnel, their whole body gets sprayed with the disinfectant, which works fast and efficiently, and provides the complete sterilization of a person," Eran Druker, business development manager at RD Pack, the Karmiel, Israel-based firm developing the sterilization tunnel that sprays visitors with environmentally friendly disinfectant, told The Times of Israel.
I'm sorry.
Then said person coughs and is contaminated/spreading it again...
It definitely wouldn’t hurt, but I don’t really see this helping much more than having everyone use hand sanitizer as they walk in the door.
Does this stop people from coughing and sneezing once they pass through.
its a pointless idea
....Bless you.
or talking at normal speaking volume https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/health/coronavirus-infections.html
"Coughs or sneezes may not be the only way people transmit infectious pathogens like the novel coronavirus to one another. Talking can also launch thousands of droplets so small they can remain suspended in the air for eight to 14 minutes"
No but there's a station where you ingest and inject bleach. Complete sterilization!
Bleach with electrolytes!
it’s got what plants crave!!
For you...not me...did I do that right?coughing and sneezing STAY HOME. This is contagious disease 101. It's not difficult we've had three months to practice.
Well, a study from the University of Michigan just demonstrated that you can reduce the death rate from Covid-19 by 45% by using the common drug Actemra, which of course the Chinese have known for months. Once the phase III results on Actemra are out in the US, none of this is going to matter very much. And then when the results of the phase III Actemra + Remdesivir trial are out, well, it's game over for the doomers...
i have had it up to here with the positive, sunshine spin of some people. cut it out.
Though it appears to be talking about preliminary results from a small study, something that may reduce deaths in those on respirators by 45% is definitely a good thing. I'm hoping that further scientific studies will confirm and add it to an ever-increasing array of recovery tools available to doctors and covid victims while we await vaccines.
Wow that's awesome. One caveat, but still sounds like promising
"...doctors knew which patients got the drug and which didn’t. Their picks for the drug-taking group could have been biased— people more likely to improve anyway, for example—so further studies are needed."
Don't worry, that sneaky virus has more tricks up its sleeve.
I am trying to understand your "doomers" comment. I am hoping you aren't trying to rip people who have been more reluctant to reopen since those people are exactly the ones most eager to hear about proven treatments before things return to normal.
I do enjoy getting updates on medicinal progress....even if there's a long way to go. That's the key to remaining cautious as we open....continue to buy science time to catch up.
Most of Greenville's posts have been QAnon-level. He mentions doomers. He's a denier.
That study is interesting and it's cool that Michigan is involved.
Greenville, if you're reading this maybe you can source your claim that "China has known about this for three months." Surely there's some conspiracy at work.
Well I used this research tool I think only QAnon members have access to called 'Google' and I typed in 'China Actemra Approval' and here's the first article that came up:
http://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/china_backs_use_of_roches_actemra_for_coronavirus_1328014
This country could have saved 40,000 lives already if we could approve drugs faster. It's not a conspiracy it's just a shitty health care system on every level.
Oh dear lord! And the "study" is laughable from a scientific POV. The "study" did not demonstrate anything-other than how to do a sloppy, invalid "study". And what the hell with the "of course the Chinese have known for months" attack. We are own worst enemy and, sad to say, it is positions like this/yours that enable and prove this being so.
There are many things that we, the scientific community, know/s about how these viruses are formed and how they act. This one is taking longer to figure out than usual. Hopefully intelligence, integrity and wisdom win-out over ignorance...sooner as opposed to later.
I'm really not going to get into arguments with people on this board, but do some research on IL-6 inhibitors and cytokine release syndrome. The Chinese approved Actemra for the treatment of severe covid-19 months ago (this is a fact) and there are plenty of incidental reports that they have bought as much as they possibly can from Roche. The science is totally sound and the results of the Michigan study are completely expected. I said this weeks, if not months, ago on this board.
As for my doomers comment, I firmly believe that just like 20% of the US population is unrepentant racists that would vote for Trump if he burned a cross on the front yard of the White House, there are a countervailing 20% that would gladly watch the economy burn for 6 months if it means Trump doesn't get re-elected. Those are the doomers I'm referring to, and many of them are in the media and in powerful political positions, and they have purposely exaggerated the dangers of this virus for their own purposes.
And what is the value of adding to your posts that the doomers won’t like it? It doesn’t stop anyone from making a negative comment and just makes you seem like a bit of an ass.
"... do some research ..."
Ah, yes, the call of the Alex Jones and QAnon fans.
Must have been the same group who reviewed the Hydroxychloroquine study...adult film and sci-fi author...strong.
I’m good with sports not returning this year.
The NBA has announced a return at the end of July, the PGA tour returns in a week, CFB is resuming practices already, and UFC has been holding fights for weeks now.
If you still think sports aren't going to return this year, you're just an idiot.
And perhaps each fan gets a Clorox swallow for internal disinfectant as our Very Stable Genius suggested, and we're all good to go?
This reminds me of a time I worked in a tech office at a major research university and would get the occasional random invention disclosure from some professor who clearly thought he had discovered some million-dollar idea that was so blindingly obvious he was shocked it hadn't been created yet. And almost always our response would be something along the lines that the invention lacked practical application or had some rather obvious fatal flaw that rendered it a waste.
We have disinfecting tunnels for people entering areas that need to be sterile. Those people are also wearing breathing apparatuses and specific clothing that limits the transmission of any organic materials from outside the facility into it. Spraying people wearing whatever clothes they came to the game in with what is effectively aerosolized Lysol, then allowing them to sit together in an open-air stadium/closed arena with limited mask coverage and no adequate way to remove recirculated air is...not going to do anything except waste a lot of disinfectant and probably make people sneeze even more which, last time I checked, not conducive to limiting the transmission of a virus.
So is this thing really solving a problem?
Requiring masks seems much more impactful. But I think it’s important not to discount the feeling of security some people may derive from things like this.
It's still there on the inside, so do they need to add a "Clorox shot" to be taken at the end of the tunnel?
EDIT: Not observant. Somebody got here first.
When asked for comment on how this would eliminate viruses, the company responded "viruses? I thought you guys didn't want to get anyone pregnant."
Yeah, this isn't the forced sterilization I thought it was.
Unless it disinfects lungs and sinus cavities it's probably not that useful/
Great. What happens when a super spreader coughs in row 45 seat 23 at Michigan stadium?
If they are coughing why are they there?
Really? You need to ask this question.
They don't need to cough at all. Just talking is enough to spread microscopic droplets.
Can they inject it...like...inside the body?
Suppository
This has been proven to work, as long as nobody breathes, talks, cheers, sings, shouts, coughs, or sneezes. Ringing a cowbell is fine, though! (Disclaimer: Not a doctor, but I've seen the movies Outbreak, Contagion, and 20 minutes of The Andromeda Strain.)
All the "experts" I´ve read or heard comment about this say it is a total waste of money and may actually make matters worse. Sorry but I do not think this would help at all.
Social distancing within a stadium, even at only a fraction of the capacity seems impossible.
I still hope they can have at least games without the fans, and even that would be hard to do.
So does this mean that those special athletes who have flu like symptoms won't be able to play and won't have the ability to play like a superhero not unlike Jordan did back in 97?*
*yes, we now know, and what I always suspected, that he did not have the flu. When I first heard that during the finals in 97, I knew it was BS. I don't care how healthy you are, when you have the flu, it knocks you out. There is no medication or way you can just suit up and play lights out with a fever etc. But what is more interesting that NO ONE corrected the story then or up until the documentary last month. I can bet many journalists new the truth but didn and wouldn't report and let the myth that Superhuman Jordan can play lights out even while suffering with a flu.
It was food poisoning.
And when 95% of people say "the flu" they mean norovirus.
Nobody ever thought jordan was playing while suffering from influenza.
The Last Dance wasn't a documentary, it was a 10-hour audiovisual love letter to Michael Jordan, personally reviewed by His Airness before being released - as I say this as someone who enjoyed it.
My point on "the flu" stands
Toe meets leather at 1:05. If you want to be there, fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too.
This is not ingenious at all; it's security theater. The vast majority of virus particles are going to be exhaled with your breathe and not just sitting on your body. This will do almost nothing to prevent an infected person from spreading the virus.
I want to still have kids, I don’t want to be sterilized when going to a game.
Putting aside whether or not it "works," is it healthy to coat your body with what is effectively poison?
Sounds great.
Can they also dip me in a vat of something?
Perhaps then light me on fire for a short bit to make sure.