This is a new blogpost from the Science Museum in London
https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-science-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-virus/
The three queztions that I still cannot answer are:
1) Has this virus been isolated? It ssems to go by various names, why, what are they? If it mutates, is it changing into something that has a new name? Has each different type/mutation been isolated? Does each mutation have a different name? If the virus mutates in one place, say in one person, does it automatically change/mutate in every other place/person at the dame time? Does the original mutation survive alongside the nrw mutation or does it disappear?
2) So, is a test to show the presence of, say, initial Mutation A of any use to *reliably* detect any new Mutants, Mutant B, C etc? And, anyway, how specific, and how reliable are those tests?
3) To what extent is the only strategy being offered, isolation, in more, or in less strict ways worsening the death rate, and suffering rate? We know, from the pre-existing epidemiological evidence that greater levels of stress, caused by greater levels of economic distress, specifically, greater levels of income inrquality, lead to greater levels of mortality and morbidity (ie premature death and elevated distress and illness, respectively).
So, are the elevated death rates in, say the UK and US, two of the most income-unequal Countries, scarecely societies, in the world, in this period, due to the *added stress* of enforced anti-social isolation than before?
4) Finally, the only alternative explanation for the, apparently, elevated levels of death during this period is placed at the installation and use of a new microwave technology called 5G. The map of introduction and use of this new technology must be well documented, as will be the map of deaths over this period. Is there any correlation between these two sets of data? And, if yes, which set of questions follow?
The Science Museum blog doesn't seem to be open to posting these questions.
And, even if it was, would any of them be heard above the political battle that is being fought.
Ah well,
John Courtneidge (Dr), PhD UCL Chemistry 1978-1981, Post-doc, briefly at Imperial College, longer at UCL, 1981-1986. Research Chemistry Participant and co-research leader employed by the Malaysian and, then, Canadian Governments, 1988-1994 (including, by intation, at the recommendation of an anonymous fellow Chemist, as a peer-reviewer of researcher-submitted manuscripts submitted for publication in Primary Journals of The Royal Society of Chemistry). All of which ended, then, when funding for fundamental Physical Organic Chemistry research was ended, world-wide.
https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-science-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-virus/
The three queztions that I still cannot answer are:
1) Has this virus been isolated? It ssems to go by various names, why, what are they? If it mutates, is it changing into something that has a new name? Has each different type/mutation been isolated? Does each mutation have a different name? If the virus mutates in one place, say in one person, does it automatically change/mutate in every other place/person at the dame time? Does the original mutation survive alongside the nrw mutation or does it disappear?
2) So, is a test to show the presence of, say, initial Mutation A of any use to *reliably* detect any new Mutants, Mutant B, C etc? And, anyway, how specific, and how reliable are those tests?
3) To what extent is the only strategy being offered, isolation, in more, or in less strict ways worsening the death rate, and suffering rate? We know, from the pre-existing epidemiological evidence that greater levels of stress, caused by greater levels of economic distress, specifically, greater levels of income inrquality, lead to greater levels of mortality and morbidity (ie premature death and elevated distress and illness, respectively).
So, are the elevated death rates in, say the UK and US, two of the most income-unequal Countries, scarecely societies, in the world, in this period, due to the *added stress* of enforced anti-social isolation than before?
4) Finally, the only alternative explanation for the, apparently, elevated levels of death during this period is placed at the installation and use of a new microwave technology called 5G. The map of introduction and use of this new technology must be well documented, as will be the map of deaths over this period. Is there any correlation between these two sets of data? And, if yes, which set of questions follow?
The Science Museum blog doesn't seem to be open to posting these questions.
And, even if it was, would any of them be heard above the political battle that is being fought.
Ah well,
John Courtneidge (Dr), PhD UCL Chemistry 1978-1981, Post-doc, briefly at Imperial College, longer at UCL, 1981-1986. Research Chemistry Participant and co-research leader employed by the Malaysian and, then, Canadian Governments, 1988-1994 (including, by intation, at the recommendation of an anonymous fellow Chemist, as a peer-reviewer of researcher-submitted manuscripts submitted for publication in Primary Journals of The Royal Society of Chemistry). All of which ended, then, when funding for fundamental Physical Organic Chemistry research was ended, world-wide.
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