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Comment Thats Bull^H^H^H^HPeopleshit! (Score 1) 43

China, India, Indinesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Blagladesh, Mexico, Ethiopia, Vietnam, DR Congo: Thats over 60% the worlds population.
None of these countries treats significant percentage of their waste water.
Whoever made this calculation does not know how dirty a river looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Sheltering does not make one imune! (Score 1) 247

You may be sheltered and delay the onset, but once in contact you will get sick, now or later.

Slowing down the covid-19 spread may be atributed to so many factors, that even guessing is futile.
Take Italy and Spain for insntance - on lockdown since March-9. It took 1 month to slow down a little. I could assume lockdown had little to no effect, since Italy is by far the worse we have seen.

Comment An MD would take it or refuse it for themselves? (Score 3, Interesting) 548

Ask any MD if he/she would take it or refuse it.
It is the most common treatment for Malaria. Some take it as a protection against a severe Malaria infection.
Very common in Africa and South America, and until March/2020 could be had WITHOUT prescription here in Brasil.
It was added to kitchen salt for a while in the Amazon region - like iodine.

Its anti-viral properties are known since H1N1/SARs previous surge, it is not a new thing but no Pharma Lab would sponsor a research with no money to be made

When prescribed by a doctor, according to patient history and status, side-effects are minimized.

Im not a health or medical professional.

Comment Make it more efficient first! (Score 1) 83

One can always improve efficiency and fuel economy by making it lighter.
Instead lets make it Heavier and clunkier so it will polute less!

Attacking the symptom before making it a lot better is not the the way to go. There are better aproaches: Mack jet eletric truck
There is a lot of room for deployment of simple tech like aerodynamic skirts and foils that can signigicantly improve fuel efficiency in semi-trailers on road use.
It must be economically attractive, or else.

Comment Re:You are most likely to get shot by a stray bull (Score 1) 93

Brazilian here, have lived in Rio, in Boston, and now in Belo Horizonte:
- You CAN drink tap water in Rio, that wont kill you.
- Stray bullets or carjacking are a more likely cause of trouble.
- No, Zika wouldnt be a concern durign winter.

And the beach...
I wouldnt go to Rio. You shouldnt.

Comment Re:'Faceglory' (Score 1) 293

faceglory.cu would hardly be sin free for portuguese speakers.
Besides, these so called "evangelicals" are mercenaries, and many priests have gathered HUGE fortunes in the name of the lord.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...
They are very good at sucking money from their audience. It will probably net far more then facebook.

Comment Still alive in Brazil (Score 1) 205

Brazilians still enjoy the availability of telegrams through ECT - Empresa de Correios e Telegrafos ECT - National and International Telegrams.
There is a LARGE list of countries that would receive telegrams. It may be posted the old fashined way, at the post office, or by modern tools like internet or phone.
Brazilian state controlled ECT (T stands for Telegraphs) sends and receives telegrams nationally and internationally (to and from India?).
Some places in Brazil do not have electricity, and telegram is also considered a legal correspondence. Probably the only possible one.
In rural areas you myst stop by the post office once every few days to collect your mail, and telegrams.

Comment Re:France is a large country? (Score 1) 178

This one has 110k cattle head count, 697km of asfalt (~420 Mi.) and over 252k hectares (~620k acres)
Fazenda Piratininga

While Brazil is smaller than Australia,more then (Australian population?) 23 million people live in rural areas without a phone line, or any mesure of decent public services (like water).
20 billion does not come close to solving anything, our problem is much larger.

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