If you know what binding enzyme that #COVID19 uses, there's a much simpler approach to home tests.

You use an inkjet printer to lay down parallel lines of what it binds to on a silicone substrate. The line spacing should be half-wavelength of the indicator color. Expose the...
printed-silicone to saliva, and the #COVID19 viruses should stick to the lines better than they stick to the spaces in-between. This will affect the way that light of that color reflects from the surface, so viral adhesion will make the surface into a holographic optical element.
In use, you'd sell little silicone rubber "stamps", the patient would spit on it, and if the virus is present, a colored holographic pattern will appear.

BTW - I was Dir of BioMed R&D for 12 yrs at 3 different companies. This was one of my inventions, but for HIV's gp120 enzyme.
This is what a prototype could look like, with the green meaning virus is present and the lavender meaning it isn't:
The same approach could reduce lab time spent on identifying whether a pathogen is Gram-positive or Gram-negative (or neither, eg, a mycobacterium like TB).

(Does anyone still think I'm not a real scientist? 😎)

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18 Nov
The USSR relied heavily on how scary the Red Army was, and a lot of diplomatic deals had the threat of 55 Armored Divisions factored-in.

Socialism is a crappy way to run a country, so their Collectives' yields fell short for 75yrs, each failure due to "unusually bad weather."
This is the catch that our Socialists miss - Despite how great it sounds, it doesn't work at all without Secret Police and gulags.

PUTIN's career was climbing the KGB ladder. Then the Red Army weapons and tactics were put to the test in the first Gulf War and they failed, badly. Image
The Kremlin realized that their people needed the food we'd been giving them - for humanitarian reasons, not out of fear. No Red Army, better restrain the KGB.

PUTIN's ambitions were thwarted.

PUTIN's Projection: "Hillary didn't get to be President so she plotted her revenge." ImageImageImage
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27 Oct
Eventually, it leads to PUTIN.

HOW is more interesting to me.

Let's assume K was a rapist, immune from prosecution due to his political power.

He raped a woman who knew reporting it was pointless.

But she kept the evidence, and used it to blackmail him.

He borrowed $ to pay
her demands, but she kept coming back for more, as retribution, until he ended up maxed-out on his credit cards.

He figured out that she wouldn't stop, and he sought help from the Russian Mafia to make it all go away.

Which they kinda did. She's gone, along with his debts...
Except now, instead of being blackmailed by his rape victim, he belongs to PUTIN, who figured K might come in handy someday.

Like, someday real soon - Between Nov 3rd and the end of Trump's Admin.

Mark my words. Politics is a blood sport.
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25 Oct
I hate to be a downer, so I should point out that I think it's possible to build a Faster-Than-Light spacecraft (we may already have) capable of traveling the galaxy like in Star Trek/SWars.

The fun thing about the physics is that it explains the strange aspects of Roswell Foil.
Thought you might be interested in this...

Remember the consistent reports describing the weird properties of the foil scraps found around the Roswell UFO "crash site"?

Looks like metal foil, except you can wad it up and it flattens itself out.

@HamillHimself @WilliamShatner
I actually predicted the photonic crystal state of matter >25 years ago, but it wasn't part of my job and I couldn't publish it even if I could've written it up, so...

I had other, more pressing problems to deal with (preventing a nuclear war, etc), so I just shelved it.
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21 Oct
Eww! NUMBERS!

Get over it, these are the numbers that installed Trump. That 27,643.8% is the ratio of votes counted to registered voters - They didn't have 200 Russian spies vote in that county, they hacked that county's computer and added 200 votes.

Hackers like round numbers.
In 2016, they hacked the precincts' computers that tallied the local votes.

They didn't get all the computers, but they hacked enough swing states' county computers for Trump to win the Electoral College votes.

Hacked counts look fishy.

A Computer Scientist in England looked at the numbers and published an article in The Guardian saying it looked like the counts were hacked, probably by the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence).

If this had been investigated *then*, we could have tossed-out the corrupted votes.
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20 Oct
Do you have a date for this event?

Trump staged a fashion show to cover for a photo that he took of her that qualified as Child Pornography unless she was much older.

A few problems - She's much younger in this shot than she was in the "fashion show".

And that's Trump's gym...
Trump's TT Penthouse's downstairs gym.

And even amateur photographers know that it takes a few seconds to fix stray hairs on the model *before* you take the shot, but impossible to fix in the darkroom.

They also know that loincloths aren't allowed on the runway, beach, or pool.
The see-thru metal mesh outfit isn't fashion, it's sex fantasy-wear of the Fredrick's of Hollywood type.

She got the boobjob when she was 14yo. (She's had several nose-jobs.)

The photographer of-record for this shot and the "fashion show" died a couple years later.
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7 Oct
I do remember it clearly.

Trump said he intended to fire RRosenstein the next day, and THAT NIGHT, Sean Hannity, for the first and last time, ORDERED Trump: "DO NOT FIRE ROD ROSENSTEIN!".

That broke the whole formula of the show (limitless praise of Trump, the Infallible One.)
Trump had been getting cocky before that, claiming that he was so tough on PUTIN that PUTIN wished Hillary had won.

Immediate summit called, in Helsinki, where PUTIN and Trump had a private conversation for 2 hours, no notes/translator sworn to secrecy.

PUTIN fired him.
It's not easy to get fired from the KGB, but the quickest way to get fired is to force your boss to "burn" another of his assets to save a more important asset.

PUTIN burned Hannity to save ROSENSTEIN, both were PUTIN assets that he had plans for.

Afterwards, at the press brief
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