A good article on the math of mask – by Nassim Talib – I don’t think cotton mask or basic face covering are the end all or perhaps even the most effective but I believe it to be quite a low hanging fruit worthwhile of using in a crowd. Outdoors by yourself or a few others in a breeze don’t think the value is there. – https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7

“SIX ERRORS: 1) missing the compounding effects of masks, 2) missing the nonlinearity of the probability of infection to viral exposures, 3) missing absence of evidence (of benefits of mask wearing) for evidence of absence (of benefits of mask wearing), 4) missing the point that people do not need governments to produce facial covering: they can make their own, 5) missing the compounding effects of statistical signals, 6) ignoring the Non-Aggression Principle by pseudolibertarians (masks are also to protect others from you; it’s a multiplicative process: every person you infect will infect others).”

Engineering ingenuity will save us – Mask cleaning done with a instant pot! – https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00534

Important statement

“Our finding that the TV capsid protein instead of the genome was the main target of the dry heat…”

Note the covid virus is an envelope virus – meaning it has an outershell (TV capsid protein). When that shell gets destroyed the virus becomes vulnerable and eventually deactivates unless it finds it host. This is very important to understand for other implications. During cold weather the outershell hardens – hence harder to destroy – hence cold seasons!

“The dry heat generated by the cooker (100 °C, 50 min) was the optimal condition for the inactivation of tested viruses. Because an ∼4-log10 reduction of SARS-CoV-2 on the respirator’s surface was achieved by applying dry heat (70 °C, 60 min),(25) the dry heat used in this study (100 °C, 50 min) should be adequate to inactivate SARS-CoV-2.

The respirator integrity (filtration performance and fit testing) did not degrade after 20 cycles of the dry heat treatment.(5) Note that the filtration performance and quantitative fit testing do not guarantee the respirator can be reused for 20 cycles because the respirator integrity will also be affected by the user donning and doffing the respirator.(26) Although the temperature of the respirator’s surface was higher than the maximum operating temperature (50 °C) that is provided by the manufacturer,(27) the primary materials for the respirator (polyester, polypropylene, polyurethane, and polyisoprene) can withstand a temperature as high as 150 °C.(28,29) Because the temperature of the pot surface is higher than the allowable temperature for the outside surface of the respirator (polypropylene), direct contact between the respirator and the pot surface must be avoided using a towel or some other item to create a barrier and insulate the respirators.”

US leads the death chart with over 1K

Once again its Texas leading the pack

And its Harris county leading – so ever since the change in death reporting Harris county is leading state of Texas. It does seem to make sense most confirmations should have most death.

What is interesting is the hospital stats don’t really show the deaths should be increasing. ICU beds used for covid has been trending down. Still working on pulling the history for Texas from a different source. Interestingly Harris county is still reporting the old death figures (800’s vs. 1500’s) https://harriscounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/c0de71f8ea484b85bb5efcb7c07c6914

Really not sure about any of the data at this point….

World watch we are seeing still a trend in increasing confirmations – per heat wave – the positive thing the fatality rates are dropping relative to the past