Already, the research team is working on a device that could also identify influenza and RSV.
Just in Time
Yeah, everyone is acting like it’s over now but in reality we’re still incredibly vulnerable.
Unprecedented global population means unprecedented opportunities for dangerous mutations, and easy global travel means it can spread faster than any time in history.
Absolutely, lots of people still die from it, but I guess we’re below the threshold where it’s newsworthy, so people don’t see it or care. The mechanism for it to happen again still exists, but now we have strong resistance to safeguards from the start! I’m sure it’ll be fine! /s
This is fantastic, the downside of course, if the general population being taught by their governments that COVID isn’t to be feared, but lived with, and most importantly “worked through”. The capitalist system doesn’t function without it’s workers, and the corporations don’t want anything disrupting their bottom line, including covid mitigations, which is why you see Right Wing nutjobs telling everyone that COVID is over, and there was nothing to fear in the first place, while in the span of 12 months over One Million Americans died. Corporations, aided by the Right Wing bigots, don’t want COVID air detectors anywhere, as they would invariably detect COVID. Reminds me of that movie where the king said to save arrows, and send in the infantry, because arrows cost money, and people cost nothing.
The detectors don’t change anything about the governments sacrificing the populations’ health though. They’re back to work with no restrictions in any case.
i’ll take “worked through” over “having my front door welded shut by the govt”
As with most things policy related, there are more than two options, thankfully. I know. It’s hurts the brain.
in this case, there are none. it is simple binary choice - to be closed at home or not to be closed at home.
yes, you can enhance any of them, for example not to be closed at come can be enhanced by vaccination, detector we are literally just discussing and other measures. but that is exactly what that moron above is bitching against trying to falsely reduce it to that simple underlining condition.
so, nice try, try again :D
The capitalist system doesn’t function without it’s workers, and the corporations don’t want anything disrupting their bottom line, including covid mitigations, which is why you see Right Wing nutjobs telling
good thing we have you, a left wing nutjob, to educate us.
what is your proposed alternative? to stop the word indefinitely? we are already living with a viruses among us and this will be another one. we will do all we can to mitigate the risks, but it will never be zero. c’est la vie.
Covid is not to be feared, and it is definitely to be worked through. Remember that for all but statistical outliers, covid is just a cold. Yes diseases suck, but this ain’t the first one and it ain’t the last one.
my daughter has a health condition that means any illness is slight more risk to her. As our local hispital.happens to have a university bio science lab attached they isolate and check pathogens when she gets ill.
COVID-19 was only second worse (following one vaccination) to two adenoviruses that totally wiped her including one that was causing a rukus in the under local under 5as they had been isolated (as was strep a). She also had one of the coronovirus from 1943 and parainfluenza (no actual influenza as has yearly vaccine).
You’d think we would bubble but she has to live her life so we are careful (wash hands, avoid playdates when others are streaming ill) but if people are outwardly well we go to parties, cinemas, cafes, convention’s etc and if she gets ill that is fact of life. I do recognise the amazing work vaccines do too.
Though it is just a detector, not a purifier. So all it really does tell you that someone in the room has Covid.
Do we all just do the Spiderman pointing meme when the detector goes off?
Or we have a waiting room in dentists/doctors offices, etc with these devices?
Reminds me of when UVA was testing whole dorm buildings sewage outlet for COVID and would lock the whole thing down if it were positive.
To be clear, I would love to have this in my home, just to know.
Very cool and useful.
Now watch it fade into oblivion because everyone is DoNe WiTH CoViD
I don’t think it isn’t just for covid. Well, currently it is, but with a few changes it could detect something else too.
“The device is equipped with a biosensor that does two things. First it takes advantage of tiny molecules obtained from llamas that stick exceptionally well to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to pull out any virus that might be present. Next, an electric current is passed through the biosensor and causes oxidation of a specific amino acid in the spike protein, the final reaction that verifies the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.“
So let’s say a new pandemic emerges, and we find out which proteins to use for identifying it. Why not modify the biosensor’s special molecule so that the device can detect whatever it is that happens to be bothering the world at that time. I think this detector has great potential.
