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So, the knuckle draggers are more likely to get it!😂 I love it when science and common sense collide!
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Contact lenses don't steam up.
The products sold for keeping motocycle helmet visors mist free work.
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Well, I was looking at this one........https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
which I think was suggested already.
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We are warned that with winter approaching the risk of seasonal flu is greater.
However if we are wearing masks and not mixing with others indoors, washing/sanitizing our hands often then isn't there just a chance that if doing all this prevents us from getting Covid, then surely it will prevent us from getting seasonal flu.
They are both transmitted by droplets and contact. Just a thought.
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My mask does not sit so high up that it covers where my glasses rest on my nose. Just the bottom of the frames come down over the mask, so no interference with focus.
However, even if I move the lenses further from my eyes, I can still focus.
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Yesterday the Death rate in Sweden was 583 per million whereas UK's was 623, Spain's was 688 and Belgium's was 886. Sweden's population is about 10 million compared to 68 million for the UK. Land mass of Sweden is 174,000 sq mls, 6th greatest in Europe to UK's 94,000, 12th greatest. Hope this clarifies matters.😀
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I get in a right mess with my masks! I'm OK for the short periods of time when I pop into the Co-Op, but I usually end up going in the shop and leaving my glasses in the car as they usually steam up! Fortunately, Carol does the big shops, like Asda and Aldi, but playing the organ at church is something else!
As an organist, I'm not obliged to wear a mask in church while playing, but I always show willing. I always use a mask on the way in and on the way out (the rules), and for the periods when I don't play or sing. I end up by leaving the mask on and taking the glasses off when they get steamed up. The I forget.... start to say and suddenly realise I can't see the music. I end up by trying to take the mask off and put glasses on half way through a hymn. Yesterday I ended up at one point with no glasses on and a mask that had dropped to the floor on the pedal board! 😀😀 I really must get a system sorted. Fortunately, I'm well away from folk, but anyone sho can see must wonder what on earth is going on!
David
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It does for you-using your calculations & method I was using death % per capita. Hope this clarifies matters.😀
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. . and the certainty of death and taxes!
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TG
I think that is what they are hoping and it does make quite a lot of sense. The last thing we need is a severe increase of Flu on top of increasing COVID cases. It might also work for the common cold as that is another Coronavirus? Could we be wearing masks for ever more!!!!
David
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...not only am I getting a flu jab this year, I'm getting a pneumonia jab too. It appears some are being offered pneumonia and others have to ask for it...... the jab, that is!!
I have to say, I was also wondering if masks, washing hands and distancing would lessen the spread of flu as well. No doubt time will tell....
David
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David, I've had a couple of bits of advice from shop staffers and from Opticians staff as well.
1 ) several shop staff have advised me to ensure glasses are cleaned before going shopping ( I use warm W-u- liquid and water ) and dry them thoroughly
2 ) My masks are the pretty standard pale blue jobbies with a couple of pieces of tissue folded and stapled across the inner upper edge. That seems to reduce the steaming up problem, even if it cannot remove it completely.
3 ) The Opticians staff all agreed that when the temperature of the glass is close to that of the premises the problem all but disappears so I am often to be found lurking by the heated areas of supermarket doorways etc etc
no no just waiting for my specs to warm up 
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Thanks for that Brian. I'll try those things - but I think thing I must have hot breath!! 😀 I've also ordered a visor type mask, which may or may not make any difference. There seems to be some doubt as to the value of visors, but as I'm not obliged to wear a mask at the organ, we'll see how effective it is when (or if) it arrives from China!! 🙂
David
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It is KJ, I apologise for the confusion👍🏻. I was being lazy by using % sign I should’ve wrote percentage as I was using the meaning proportion part of percentage.
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When snorkelling, it is suggested to spit into your goggles, rub the lenses and then rinse with seawater, so perhaps DSB's solution is to have a bucket of brine next to the organ.
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I undestood the salt in washing up liquid could damage the coatings, one of which is supposed to stop misting. Doesn't though. I also find the surgical type cause less misting than the cloth ones the OH made. They were OK in the summer but since the weather has gone colder are not as good.
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I was told that by an optician. Mind you, they were selling expensive lens cleaners....
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I was just told by mine to use simple soap or hand wash soap.
Funnily enough I have a set of cycling glasses which look like normal cycling glasses but the prescription varifocal part is on a plastic insert frame that clips inside into the nose bridge behind the coloured outer.
After a few weeks the plastic frame had cracked, went back and they got me another frame. They said that I shouldn't use lens cleaning wipes as they contain alcohol which can weaken the plastic. I said you mean the wipes you had sold me?
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A couple of months ago, just after National lockdown had been lifted, large swathes of tourists descended on seaside resorts, mainly in the South West of England, and a lot of our resident CT members expressed their disquiet about it, quite naturally so.
However, I cannot for the life of me find any correlation with this mass visitation season relating to an increase in infection rates in those same areas.
So what happened? Did the vast majority of locals tread so carefully that they managed to avoid the virus or have I missed something in the news as it seems that the South West has done well in keeping their infection rate down?
Did the tourists merely take the virus back from whence they came, probably the North by the look of things?
Why didn't a mass outbreak occur in Devon and Cornwall, and I for one am glad to see it didn't? Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Just interested and no underlying reason for post. Mere curiosity.
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It is indeed a mystery. The SW has been packed with visitors over a long season but I guess the locals don't mingle with them if they can avoid it and the visitors might just be spreading it amongst themselves a couple of weeks after they go home?
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Seeing as we’re off topic, I’ll add my two penny worth
The best way to clean your glasses, says Dr. Geist, is to run them under warm water and put a tiny drop of dishwashing detergent on the tip of your fingers to create a lather on the lens. Then rinse with warm water, and dry with a clean, soft cotton cloth. "Everyone uses their shirt cloth—worst thing!" she says.
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