Battle sickness with steam
These are the main ways that influenza and colds spread:
• By direct transmission (when an infected person sneezes mucus directly into the eyes, nose or mouth of another person);
• The airborne route (when someone inhales the aerosols produced by an infected person coughing, sneezing or spitting);
• Through hand-to-eye, hand-to-nose, or hand-to-mouth transmission, either from contaminated surfaces or from direct personal contact such as a handshake.
Whichever way you get it, influenza and cold viruses have an incubation period (lapse of time from exposure to pathogen to the appearance of symptoms) of 18 to 72 hours, and infect the epithelial cells of the respiratory tract, starting in the nose.
Flu and cold viruses — and apparently the coronavirus — are susceptible to heat. It must be at least 170 degrees.
According to Professor Wang Linfa, director for the program in emerging infectious diseases at the Duke-NUS Medical School, exposing the coronavirus to heat breaks the corona structure, rendering the virus impotent and unable to infect its host. See straitstimes.com/singapore/health/coronavirus-how-disinfectants-and-hot-humid-weather-can-keep-virus-away.
One way to do this is to boil a pot of water, turn the heat off, wait a few minutes, then carefully breathe the steam. Use your common sense: if it feels too hot, wait another minute. When it is comfortable but still hot, take slow, deep breaths. Do it once a day, but if around children or lots of sneezing and coughing, increase up to twice a day.
Ruta Jordans, Kapa‘a
Unless you are donald jennifer trump or his sycophant, you consider the New York Times to be a solid source of information. They reviewed the literature on this home remedy and reported the following negative consensus:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/health/28really.html
Pete, Thanks for your reference here. It is obvious that you cannot get your membranes in your body up to 170 degrees to kill the virus. The parts of your body would die before the virus did.
That said, the higher humidity and temp levels in Hawaii will help to prevent the spread of coronaviruses before they get through your body’s defenses. But that is no guarantee. We should still be careful.
I will also point out that you (Pete) seemed to be infected with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). You cannot even talk about medical issues without trying to slam President Trump.
I am not sure what is the best prevention for this TDS infection. Maybe it might help to study the economic success of the poor under the Trump administration, or study the epic failure of most socialist systems, or study the fact that babies in their third trimester are very much alive.
It turns out that Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) actually does exist; but, it has been described inaccurately by hatemongers like Rush (can’t he die quicker) Limbaugh and the like. TDS is actually the believing of packs of lies from trump and fox, or maybe we call them “lie packs.” We can view 3 lie packs from a TDS sufferer in the comment above. To suggest that the “poor” are doing well under trump is not only deranged, it’s demented. The Donald Jennifer trump war on the poor includes cutting hundreds of thousands from welfare and food stamps, having them pay for the Chinese tariffs, and proposing a new budget that will cut Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps even more and a new rule that prevents States from getting waivers to apply to conditions in the poorest urban areas. According to Economic Policy Institute analysis, poor household income in 36 States declined during the first 2.5 years of the orange-tinted current regime.
The next lie pack invokes the boogeyword: “socialism,” which TDS sufferers use ignorantly to describe any opposition proposal. They say preposterous things like “most socialist systems fail.” Which is only true about most systems located in Argentina! They ignore the movement of Democratic Socialism (thinking it has to do with the Party) and it’s Superstar countries like Bolivia and Sweden or the couple dozen countries that have applied or adopted socialist systems for the care of people. Some, like Norway and Denmark, usually are in the top five of “happiest countries to live in” polls along with others who have done likewise.
The 3rd lie pack is just a rally phrase. The “3rd trimester” is not even explained here; it’s just invoked. This is a worst case slogan for aging white men who wish to control the bodies of young women and refers to abortions as late as the 3rd trimester. The sloganeers always ignore the crushingly difficult circumstances. Rep. Gabbard put forth the Democratic Party consensus well with this: “Unless a woman’s life or severe health consequences is at risk, then there shouldn’t be abortion in the third trimester.” This decision is never made better by the involvement of aging, white, male, control freaks or big government.
Gee mark and you have to defend any perceived slights to trump. You need to put down your bible and read another book or two.