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how can a virus die if it isnt a lifeform?

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 18:30:50 2020 No.11501013 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11501020 >>11501026 >>11501031 >>11501075

they say washing facemasks at 60 °C kills the coronavirus. how does that work?

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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:36:20 No.11501020 Report

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>>11501013
The lipid membrane encapsulating it's protein structure collapses.

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britmed !pYMa6ftzOQ Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:37:33 No.11501026 Report

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>>11501013
die is not the correct word

"denature and degrade sufficiently that it cannot replicate" would be a more appropriate phrase than "die" but John Q Public wouldn't understand

here are other things than heat that degrade the coronavirus RNA: alcohol >70% by volume, UV light and soap (because soap breaks down the lipid coating that surrounds the viral RNA)

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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:40:22 No.11501031 Report

Quoted By: >>11501038

>>11501013
>washing facemasks at 60 °C
fucks up the face mask too

better use a dry oven at 70C for 30min

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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:42:15 No.11501037 Report

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>>11501020
just use soap?

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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:42:18 No.11501038 Report

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>>11501031Does that wash it or just toast it?

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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:49:41 No.11501058 Report

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>>11501038
kills the viruses
https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A%2F%2Fstanfordmedicine.box.com%2Fv%2Fcovid19-PPE-1-1

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Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2020 18:54:02 No.11501075 Report

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>>11501013
living vs dead is semantics. The important thing is that the virus becomes incapable of reproducing under those conditions

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