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   On 1/11/26 20:44, Physfitfreak wrote:   
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   > This is the very last post (I think) that Uncle Al made to cyberspace:   
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   > https://forums.fqxi.org/u/aschwartz1   
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   > The timing was at the height of COVID, during the months before any   
   > vaccines were available. I believe COVID killed him, much like it did   
   > Relf four years later — he was just older and succumbed earlier.   
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   > If he had been a physicist like me, he might still be alive. I   
   > eliminated those viruses in my own home through a simple application of   
   > physics, using nothing more than an air filter that released properly   
   > charged particles.   
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   > That’s how a physicist differs from a "chemist." One is the real thing,   
   > and the other is just there for money.   
      
   I remember reading near to the start of COVID that 70% IPA or   
   above disrupts the protein coat of viruses.   
      
   It also helps when you scrape ice from windshields in winter.   
      
   Ultimately the real thing that people neglect however is dust   
   that lodges in the nose when you breathe in a dusty area.  Dust   
   particles are much larger than viruses, and so the viruses can   
   piggyback on dust, and that is of course beyond aerosols when   
   someone is coughing near to you.  Birds fly between continents   
   and defecate onto other continents, and some of that becomes   
   dust in winter, than then blows and lodges in the nose.  Then   
   of course there is getting your hands dirty and then picking   
   your nose.  When you take a tissue and go around on the inside   
   of your nose and then pull it out, you notice that some times   
   a lot of dust gets in there.  Of course smearing a dusty mask   
   in your nose can get dust there also especially if the mask   
   falls in a dirty place on the ground before you do that.   
      
   Yes there were four human coronaviruses that circulated among   
   the human population before COVID-19 and it is feasible that   
   some of them can create cross immunity with other coronaviruses.   
      
   Once upon a time people died of 'natural causes' and 'old age'.  '   
   People still sort of do that nowadays but then tend to call it   
   something different.  What do the words 'the common cold' mean?   
   Symptoms?  Specific types of viruses?  Who really knows?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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