We don’t need a vaccine at all, cotton gloves and masks are sufficient to solve the COVID-19 pandemic very quickly
Declaration: I, Wenbin Zhao, hereby declare that I don’t produce any kind of gloves, don’t do any business involved in gloves, have not a penny of stocks or bonds in any glove businesses, and I have not informed any glove businesses about my idea. I just want to save people’s lives.
The Main Arguments:
We know, west health experts made mistakes at the beginning of this COVID-19 pandemic, advising healthy people not to wear common or surgical masks. They made this kind of mistake because they don’t know physics, they don’t know stopping the spread of these kinds of respiratory pathogens outside our bodies is not a matter of medicine, but it’s exactly a matter of physics. So we need physicists to help to solve this pandemic. There are only two ways that the virus transmits, through the air and through surfaces. Only very small size respiratory droplets (a very, very small portion of the all droplets) can float in the air for a short time, all droplets would finally drop down or fly to the ground or other surfaces and stay there very, very long, coronavirus patients’ hands can also get the virus to some surfaces, so the virus on surfaces perhaps is the main threat to us. Washing hands can help block the virus from spreading through surfaces, but we can’t guarantee we wouldn’t touch our face during the period of time from picking the virus up to washing it off, this is an apparent loophole. Cotton gloves can close this loophole, can keep our hands clean at all times, and can help clean all surfaces and then will make the world safer, because cotton gloves can capture or arrest the virus and confine the virus within the gloves. Cotton gloves and masks work based on two theories, Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory and Filtration Theory, I think health experts and health officials need to learn these two theories which I discussed in my paper. I have done the experiment on cotton gloves and masks effects, from February to May all my families wore cotton gloves and masks outside our home, none of us didn’t have even a very, very little cold during that period of time. Since June, we started not wearing cotton gloves and masks, and we all ever got colds, so I’m sure cotton gloves and masks can stop all respiratory pathogens from getting into our body. Please note, September 13 ABC News involved the flu in the southern hemisphere has in advance confirmed my judgement on the flu in the U.S. in the coming winter is right (Reference 3), that news can remind you that all my theories and cotton glove measure are right; and time will tell you that your ignorance and your neglect of my critical theories would have cost more and more lives.
Just human beings can defeat any kind of evil enemy including COVID-19. But, we need the appropriate weapons to destroy each kind of the enemy. Cotton gloves and masks are the appropriate weapons to capture or arrest COVID-19, with them we can eradicate COVID-19 and other respiratory pathogens very easily, and immediately solve billions of people’s mental health problems caused by this pandemic. To solve COVID-19 pandemic we need to know the following two theories.
Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory: When small particles are pressed into or strike plentiful fibers, these small particles will be captured by fibers, and it will not be easy for these small particles to drop off from the fibers.
Filtration Theory: When a fluid containing particles goes through a filter bed, the filter bed can block a lot of the particles which are smaller than the gap on filter bed, and the filter bed is thicker the chance of small particles passing through is less. Double the thickness of the filter bed the chance of small particles passing through it will be the second power of the original chance.
Most people think the vaccine is vital to be able to return to normalcy, but preventing COVID-19 from replicating within our body is much more difficult than preventing it from spreading outside our bodies. Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory and Filtration Theory can help us prevent the virus from spreading outside our bodies very easily. Fiber stuffs, like masks and cotton gloves (eFigure 1) are the key to solve this pandemic, and these stuffs can also help us solve other respiratory infectious pathogens’ epidemics, like the flu outbreaks.
If every person (100% of people) in a community, a city, a state, a country or even in this world wore masks and cotton gloves, we would eradicate COVID-19 and other respiratory pathogens in this community, this city, this state, this country or even in this world in two weeks. Even if only 90% of the people did this, we would be able to eradicate these pathogens in less than a month.
As for masks and cotton gloves, wearing nothing means we don’t BLOCK the spread of COVID-19 at all. Wearing masks can SLOW the spread of COVID-19, wearing cotton gloves can also SLOW the spread of COVID-19. But wearing both masks and cotton gloves can STOP the spread of COVID-19, and even ERADICATE the virus after some time.
Cotton gloves are one of the most important safety measures to stop the spread of COVID-19, but unfortunately, health experts and other scientists have neglected to figure out this measure. Without this measure, there is a huge loophole in blocking the spread of this virus, and it will be difficult to quickly solve the COVID-19 pandemic.
West people didn’t wear masks initially, that’s the reason why west countries have so many cases and deaths. East people wore masks from the beginning of this pandemic, that’s the reason why east countries have fewer cases and deaths. But east and west people both have not begun to wear cotton gloves, that’s the reason why we have not solved the COVID-19 pandemic.
To solve the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to use some protecting items like masks and gloves, and take some actions to block the virus from transmitting outside our bodies, these items and actions are not only a matter of medicine, they are much more a matter of physics. Health experts are good at how to kill the virus and how to stop the replication of the virus WITHIN OUR BODIES, but they might not necessarily know very well how these protecting items and actions work OUTSIDE OUR BODIES. That’s the reason why, at the beginning of this pandemic, east health experts were not able to convince west health experts that all kinds of masks are helpful to block the spread of the virus. And that’s the reason why all health experts up to now have not figured out that cotton gloves are also actually a powerful measure to close the existing loophole which they have not found in blocking the spread of COVID-19.
Frankly, I’m a physicist of genius and a first-rate engineer, and I happened to study microbiology at university, and I have been studying COVID-19 since Wuhan lockdown for thousands of hours, I’m sure there has been being a huge loophole in blocking the virus from transmitting through surfaces. While hand washing is a safety measure to prevent the virus from transmitting through surfaces, but hand washing doesn’t do this job perfectly, because we wash hands intermittently, it’s impossible for us to wash hands every minute, and we can’t guarantee that we would wash hands immediately after our hands picking the virus from some surfaces, and we can’t also guarantee that we would not touch our face during the period of time between picking the virus up and washing it off. That means, even if we wash hands frequently, we might still have the chance to send the virus we picked up from some surfaces to our face. We need to find something that can keep our hands clean at all times.
On January 25th night, I was puzzling over this virus problem for that whole night and thought of cotton gloves. The next day (January 26th), I posted my idea about gloves on my Chinese social media account WeChat urging my relatives and friends not only to wear masks but also gloves. At that time, COVID-19 was spreading very badly in China, it was hard to buy masks and latex gloves or plastic gloves then. I was not sure if I could buy cotton gloves, on January 29th I tried to go to web and found cotton gloves were available and still very cheap (that means at that time few Chinese people realized that cotton gloves could help), I bought some which I received in March (I received them very late because of a lot of lockdowns in China during that period of time.)
This is the timeline I have had come to every conclusion on cotton gloves: In January, I concluded that cotton gloves could protect the people who wear them. Later on, I concluded that cotton gloves work far better than latex gloves or plastic gloves. After that, I concluded that cotton gloves can not only protect the people who wear them but also other people. By the middle of March 2020, I concluded that cotton gloves can help solve the COVID-19 pandemic, (frankly before this conclusion, I had a little bit of very low grade depression, not because of my health, but because of worrying about of my two children, a boy of 5 and a girl of 3, but after this conclusion I have not been being afraid of COVID-19 at all even if a second wave of COVID-19 comes to China, and this conclusion solved my mental health problem immediately,) and I started sending emails about this conclusion to a lot of authorities including the U.S. CDC (from March 18, I sent a lot of emails to the U.S. CDC). And now, after studying the COVID-19 pandemic and the nature of cotton gloves for more than half a year, I have concluded that cotton gloves can save millions of lives, immediately solve billions of people’s mental health problems caused by this pandemic, and can certainly help eradicate these kinds of respiratory infectious pathogens among human beings combining with masks and other safety measures in a couple of months on this planet.
I have been wanting to contact Dr. Anthony Fauci about my cotton glove idea, but I don’t how to reach out to him. Why health experts including Dr. Fauci have not thought of cotton gloves? Frankly, at the beginning of this pandemic, west health experts didn’t even know common masks would help, and east health experts only guessed or thought that common masks would help but did not know how and why common masks would help. These matters involve two physics theories which I call Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory and Filtration Theory, and these health experts don’t know these theories, and so they made some mistakes on masks, let alone cotton gloves.
Dr. Fauci is the US leading expert on infectious diseases, I respect him very much, and frankly, I have learned something from him. But now, some people don’t trust him, why? Because he made some mistakes including advising healthy people not to wear masks at the beginning of this pandemic. Like other medical professionals, they are all very good at medicine, but they are not good at physics and engineering. I have said that blocking the spread of COVID-19 outside our bodies is much more a matter of physics, so it’s very natural for the people who don’t know physics to make mistakes on physics matters.
Why west heath experts initially thought common masks couldn’t block the respiratory droplets or particles? They thought the size of the droplets or particles are smaller than the size of the fiber gaps on the mask, so they thought common masks couldn’t block the virus. In fact, all kinds of masks can help block the respiratory droplets or particles. These health experts don’t know Filtration Theory, they don’t know Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory. They don’t know the fact that it’s impossible for these droplets or particles to go through a mask unimpededly. When these droplets or particles go through a mask, they don’t go in a straight line, they would strike fiber(s) and would adhere to the fiber or would be stuck between the fibers (Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory). If west health experts knew these things, even if they wanted to keep N95 and surgical masks supplies for healthcare workers, they would have and should have advised people to make or sew cloth masks themselves and wear them at the beginning of this pandemic. If they did that, there wouldn’t have been so many cases and deaths in west countries. I have said that they didn’t know physics very well, so they made that mistake, it was very natural.
Of course, all people around the world except me have made a huge mistake. All people think to solve this pandemic we should ONLY listen to medical experts, that’s wrong. In fact, we need health experts and other scientists to protect the health of our human beings, especially physicists, we need health experts and physicists working together, we need health experts and physicists discussing these matters together. I know, health experts have been being very busy and have not had time to discuss with other scientists on these matters, and other scientist think they don’t know medicine, and they have not even started to puzzle over these kinds of problems. And so, many, many, many people have died from COVID-19.
When I watched ABC News on February 7th (U.S. time Feb. 6th), ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton said, “Doctor Fauci himself told me that the size of the corona virus particle is so small that it can infiltrate these surgical masks, so there is no evidence that they are effective in protecting a healthy person.” (Reference 1) I thought they were absolutely wrong. And I posted my idea to refute their comments on my Chinese social media account WeChat afterwards. I usually trust west health experts, but about masks, I didn’t listen to them at all at that time, instead I wore two masks. I was pretty sure that if surgical masks were N50, two surgical masks would be N75 (1–0.5 X 0.5 = 0.75 = 75%, Filtration Theory). So I wore two masks. N75 is not as good as N95, but it’s better than N50 and far better than nothing. Afterward, I learned surgical mask is similar to N80 (I have not verified this information further), if surgical masks equal to N80, then two surgical masks equal to N96 (1–0.2 X 0.2 = 0.96 = 96%), and are better than N95.
According to Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory and Filtration Theory, all kinds of masks could help, because, they all have plentiful fibers, and masks are actually filter beds that filtrate the air and can block and capture the particles containing COVID-19. Even if a mask can’t guarantee to capture all the particles going through it, it does reduce the chance of particles of getting into our nose or mouth, two masks reduce much more the chance, so I wore two masks from the beginning.
There are some other physics phenomena in the process of mask blocking the particles. If the respiratory droplets are wet (containing water), they will be easy to adhere to the fibers in mask. If the droplets have been in air for some time and become dry particles, it also doesn’t matter, the breath exhaled from our lungs contains a lot of moisture, the moisture can evenly let the fibers become wet, dry particles can also easily adhere to the wet fibers. Regardless the respiratory droplets or particles being wet or dry, and regardless the fibers in the mask being wet or dry, even if dry particles are going through a dry mask, the dry fibers also have a lot of chance to stick the dry particles.
The last and the most important, when we inhale, the droplets or particles are going toward the mask and blocked by the mask; when we exhale, the droplets or particles blocked by the mask could be blown out of the mask and get into the air again, in this way the mask can also block the virus better.
I also want to discuss another important function of masks in protecting our respiratory system, that is wearing a mask can make the air we inhale warmer. We know that a cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract, why we call this illness a cold? Apparently that means the patient once was in cold environment or inhaled cold air. When we are in cold environment, our body will become a little cold, our immune system will not work very well, and it might not conquer the respiratory pathogens we inhaled, that would lead to us getting sick, so we call it we got a cold (I mean a low temperature). If we inhale cold air, our respiratory tract and lungs will also become a little cold, the immune cells in our respiratory tract and lungs will also not work very well, and they might also not conquer the respiratory pathogens we inhaled, and we would also get sick. While we are wearing a mask outdoors especially in winter, when we exhale the expelled air can heat the mask and the mask will become warmer, when we inhale the warmer mask can heat the cold air and then the warmer air will get into our respiratory tract and our lungs, the warmer air will not damage our immune cells in our respiratory tract and lungs, and these immune cells can defeat the respiratory pathogens we inhaled, and so we will not get sick. With this function, the mask can also protect us against COVID-19. To utilize this function, the mask is thicker the mask would heat the air more, this also means the mask is thicker it’s better just like its filtration function. I have found that the death rates in Singapore and Maldives are very low (as of Aug. 24, 2020, Singapore below 0.05%, Maldives below 0.4%), why? Because these two countries are around the equator and surrounded by the sea, the air in these two countries is always warm and wet. The warm and wet air can always protect the immune cells in our lungs which fight off the virus, and so the death rates in Singapore and Maldives are low. Thicker masks can also help us get warm and wet air, so even if we contract the virus, thicker masks can also help save our lives.
As stated above, according to Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory, Filtration Theory and mask’s heating air function, all kinds of masks can help block the spread of COVID-19.
The experiment on mask’s effect to block COVID-19 is very difficult to be done, because nobody knows how much level of concentration of the virus in the air is appropriate to do this experiment, nobody knows the appropriate size of droplets or particles to do this experiment. Even if we can assume one level of concentration of the virus in the air and the droplets or particles’ size to do this experiment, it will still be difficult to detect how much of the droplets or particles passing through the mask, how much blocked in the mask, and how much not going to the mask at all. And I think there are a lot of other difficulties like how to make the droplets and the safety of the experimenter etc. Since there are so many difficulties, nobody has done such experiment, and nobody can convince the people that all kinds of masks are helpful by showing the experiment data, and that’s the reason why up to now there are still some people who don’t believe in masks. But it doesn’t matter, Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory, Filtration Theory and mask’s heating air function can convince the people to believe in masks, and the fact that east people wore masks from the beginning of this pandemic and then have less cases and deaths can also convince the people around the world to believe in masks.
To stop the spread of COVID-19, we need to prevent the virus from entering healthy people’s bodies, to do that we need to know where the virus could be. We know that COVID-19 can replicate in lungs, there are a lot of COVID-19 in COVID-19 patients’ lungs. These patients can spray out respiratory droplets containing this virus into the air by coughing, sneezing and even talking. So THE VIRUS COULD BE IN THE AIR.
When COVID-19 patients cough, sneeze or talk, their respiratory droplets can get into the air, the smaller droplets would float in the air temporarily, and the bigger droplets can fly until they strike some surfaces and adhere to these surfaces or drop onto the ground. The droplets floating in the air can’t always float in the air, they would finally drop down onto the ground or some surfaces. So THE VIRUS COULD BE ON THE GROUND AND ON SOME SURFACES.
When the virus is on the ground, it will have little chance to get to our face, because our hands rarely touch the ground. But if a wind machine blows the indoors ground, the virus might have the chance to get into the air again, that will still be dangerous to people indoors. If the virus is on the ground outdoors, even if the winds can blow the virus up, but it will be in the open air, the virus in the open air has little chance to get into our body. Anyway, the virus on the ground can still eventually be blocked by masks when it gets into air again, so WE NEEDN’T WORRY ABOUT THE VIRUS DROPPED ONTO THE GROUND.
People often unconsciously touch their nose or mouth, COVID-19 patients also do so, when they do so they would pick a lot of viruses from his nose or mouth, then it’s very natural that COVID-19 patients could have a lot of virus on their hands (including COVID-19 patient’s own respiratory droplets dropped onto his hands and some droplets stricken and absorbed by their hands when the hands were moving in the air). When COVID-19 patients’ hands touch some surfaces, the virus can also get onto these surface, this can also further certify that THE VIRUS COULD BE ON SOME SURFACES.
MASKS CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE VIRUS BEING IN THE AIR, IF WE HAVE SOMETHING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE VIRUS BEING ON SOME SURFACES, WE CAN SOLVE THE WHOLE PROBLEM.
We have known that some of these kinds of respiratory viruses can live on some surfaces for nearly 10 days. While the virus is alive on these surface, if our hands touch these surfaces we may pick it up, and we may send it to our nose, mouth or eyes when our hands touch our face unconsciously, and the virus will have the chance to enter our body. Even if our hands don’t send the virus directly to our nose, mouth or eyes, our hands send it only onto our face, it will also be dangerous, because once the virus drops off from our face it will be very near to our nose and can be easily inhaled into our lungs.
The virus can stay in the air temporarily because the droplets containing the virus would drop down finally, but the virus can stay on a surface permanently unless it is pick up by a person’s hand or wiped off before it dies, so I think PERHAPS THE VIRUS ON SOME SURFACES HAS MORE THREAT TO THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE THAN THE VIRUS IN THE AIR, that means perhaps most of the COVID-19 patients caught (or contracted) the virus from some surfaces. Of course, a mask can also help block the virus on a person’s hand, because when we wear a mask we reluctant to touch our face, and the mask can also block the virus on our face. So the effect of the mask is not just blocking the virus in the air, but also the virus on surfaces. SO WE MUST ALSO TAKE THE ISSUE OF THE VIRUS BEING ON SOME SURFACES MORE SERIOUSLY.
Health experts advise us that washing hands is a safety measure to prevent the virus from spreading through surfaces. But as I said above, washing hands is not the best safety measure to do this job, and there is an existing loophole in blocking the virus from spreading through surface by hand washing. Because we wash hands intermittently, we can’t wash hands every minute, we need something that can keep our hands clean at all times. So I found cotton gloves can do this job far better.
To believe in cotton gloves blocking COVID-19 far better than hand washing, we need to know some properties of coronavirus first. COVID-19 is a new virus, but it’s still one of many respiratory coronaviruses like the flu. COVID-19 only replicates on certain animal tissues (or cells), our lungs are the best nutrient pad for this virus to replicate. Of course, the problem is exactly that it replicates in our lungs and our lungs are damaged, and that’s the reason why we get sick and even dead. If it doesn’t have the appropriate soil (animal tissues or nutrient pad) it will die after some time (we know less than 10 days).
COVID-19 does not replicate on our hand skin, it does not have legs or claws, teeth, or wings, it itself does not have the power or ability to get into our body, that means at least it cannot penetrate through our skin into our body. And since it can’t replicate on our hand skin and can’t penetrate our hand skin into our body, and it is just staying on our hand skin and doing nothing, hand washing makes sense.
COVID-19 also doesn’t replicate on the objects’ surfaces around us, it also just stays on them.
Hand washing is a safety measure to prevent the virus picked up by our hands from some surfaces from staying on our hands, but during the period of time between picking the virus up and washing it off we still have the chance to send it to our nose, mouth or eyes, this is an apparently existing loophole.
HOW TO CLOSE THIS LOOPHOLE?
I’m pretty sure cotton gloves can close this loophole, and can perfectly block the virus on object surfaces from getting to our face.
Because cotton gloves have plentiful fibers, these fibers can capture or arrest the virus, and the virus will be confined within the gloves, and then it will be very difficult for the virus to escape from the gloves. This conclusion is based on Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory.
To understand Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory, we can observe these phenomena. If you touch a hard surface with your fingers and slide on it, like the top of a table in your bedroom, then you look at your fingers, you might find some dust on your fingers. But if you touch a cloth surface, like your quilt on your bed in the same bedroom, with your fingers and also slide on it, even if the quilt has as much dust on it as the table does, you can’t find dust on your fingers. The table and the quilt are in the same room, they should have the same quantity of dust on every square centimeter, but the fact is that we can pick up some dust from the top of the table, and we can’t pick up dust from the quilt. Why? When you touch a hard surface like the top of your table, there are no fibers and no fiber gaps, there is not space for the dust to hide in, and so your fingers can pick the dust up. When you touch a cloth surface like your quilt, there are a lot of fibers and fiber gaps on the quilt, you can press the dust into the fiber gaps, the dust hides in the cloth, so it’s hard for you to pick up the dust. This is the best illustration of Plentiful Fibers Can Capture Small Particles Theory.
We can use this theory to capture the respiratory droplets or particles containing COVID-19 on hard surfaces, all kinds of cloth have plentiful fibers, but the best pieces of cloth to do this job are cotton gloves or other fabric or cloth gloves, because when our cotton gloving hand is touching a surface with droplets or particles containing COVID-19 on it, the droplets or particles will be unconsciously and automatically pressed into the fiber gaps of the glove, the cotton glove would capture or arrest the virus and confine it within the glove, and all cotton gloving hands can do this job repeatedly anywhere and anytime.
With cotton gloves we can do this job like a blind man, we are indeed blind persons to the virus, and so we need these blind men’s tools, cotton gloves. The cotton gloves can capture the virus, and then we, the human beings, will have less chance to catch or contract the virus to get sick. It looks like cotton gloves replace us to catch the virus, cotton gloves save us, I think this is absolutely the best idea.
If there is COVID-19 on a hard and smooth surface like a doorknob, and if our hands without cotton gloves touch the doorknob, our hands could pick it up, and it will stay on our hand, and it will be easier for the virus to drop off from our hands and get onto our face when our hands touch our face, that will be dangerous. But if our cotton gloving hands touch that doorknob, the virus will be pressed into the fiber gaps of the gloves, and the virus will be confined or stuck within the glove, and it will be more difficult for the virus to drop off from the glove and get onto our face when our gloving hands touch our face, that will be much safer. And in fact, when we wear gloves, we reluctant to touch our face. In this way, gloves will also help reduce the chance for the virus getting to our face.
Even if the virus can penetrate cotton gloves to get to our hand skin, (I think this chance is almost 0,) the virus stays on our hand skin, when we take off the gloves, glove are actually wiping our hands, the cotton gloves will capture the virus from our hand skin and our hands will also be cleaner and safer.
When we get home, we can take off the gloves, and then wash hands immediately, that will doubly assure that the virus would not get to our face.
As stated above, WEARING COTTON GLOVES CAN CLOSE THE LOOPHOLE OF HAND WASHING, AND COTTON GLOVES WORK FAR BETTER THAN HAND WASHING.
Cotton gloves are also far better than latex gloves and plastic gloves. Latex gloves and plastic gloves can prevent the virus from getting onto our hands, but this does not make any sense, because the virus does not replicate on our hand skin, and the virus does not penetrate the hand skin to get into our body. The only one advantage of latex gloves and plastic gloves is that when we take off latex gloves or plastic gloves we don’t need to wash hands. But latex gloves and plastic gloves have the most serious shortcoming, when the latex gloves or plastic gloves pick the virus from some surfaces, they cannot capture or arrest the virus, they cannot confine the virus within the gloves, so the virus can easily drop off from latex or plastic gloves and enter into the air again, that will endanger all the people around including the person wearing latex gloves or plastic gloves. But cotton gloves can capture or arrest the virus and confine it within the fiber gaps, the virus will not easily drop off, SO COTTON GLOVES ARE FAR BETTER THAN LATEX GLOVES AND PLASTIC GLOVES.
When a cotton gloving hand is touching a doorknob, it is wiping the doorknob more thoroughly than a bare hand doing that, that means the doorknob will become cleaner and there will be fewer virus left on the doorknob, and of course, the doorknob will become safer for the person who will touch it next. So COTTON GLOVES CAN ALSO HELP PROTECT OTHER PEOPLE.
Cotton gloves can capture or arrest the virus and confine the virus within the glove, and the virus doesn’t replicate on plant fibers, THE VIRUS CAN ONLY STAY IN COTTON GLOVES AND CAN ONLY WAIT TO DIE. If all people wear cotton gloves, every cotton gloving hand is like a policeman to capture or arrest the virus on every surface, every surface will become safer, and the world will become safer.
Even if not every person wears cotton gloves, if most people wear cotton gloves, every surface will also become safer, and this will decrease the Effective Reproductive Number (R), that will help to solve this pandemic and help eradicate this virus combining with other safety measures like masks and social distancing.
Cotton gloves are extremely cheap, and we can sterilize them by steaming (eFigure 2), so they can be used many times, there will not likely be a short of supply.
If someone really doesn’t want to wear cotton gloves and can’t wash hands, he can frequently rub his hands against his clothes, or rub his hand against his clothes immediately after his hand touches a doubtful surface. I know this action is not graceful, but it will really help. His clothes can capture or arrest the virus from his hands, his hands will also become safer.
As for protective gowns, I think they are good for surgery, they might not necessarily protect from COVID-19, because we needn’t to prevent the virus from being captured by our clothes, and I think if our clothes capture more of the virus from a certain space, this space will be safer for us. The gowns block our clothes from capturing the virus, and gowns themselves might not necessarily capture the virus as good as common clothes do, and the virus can easily drop off from the gown and enter the air again, so I don’t think protective gowns are helpful for blocking COVID-19. But face shields are really good PPE for COVID-19, it can stop the respiratory droplets containing the virus from directly flying to to eyes.
Cotton gloves are not only PPE, when my families and I wear cotton gloves, they are just PPE only for our family. But when all or most of the people in a hot spot wear cotton gloves, the gloves will become the most powerful weapons to capture and arrest COVID-9 in this hot spot. When all or most of the people in all hot spots around the world wear cotton gloves, everyone cotton glove is actually wiping every surface, every surface will become cleaner and safer, and the Effective Reproductive Number (R) will be brought down, and all cotton gloves will become an incredible army to destroy COVID-19, in this way THIS COTTON GLOVE ARMY WILL ERADICATE COVID-19 AMONG OUR HUMAN BEINGS ON THIS PLANET IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS, and the whole world will certainly return to normalcy.
Cotton gloves can solve the problem of the virus being on surfaces, masks can solve the problem of the virus being in the air, these two safety measures can solve the whole problem. And with cotton gloves, masks, social distancing and other measures, we can definitely solve the COVID-19 pandemic. We don’t need a vaccine for infectious respiratory pathogens, because masks and cotton glove can solve the problem very easily. This is not a fantasy, this is not an assumption, it’s a scientific conclusion drawn by me, Wenbin Zhao, a top scientist of genius.
I think other scientists will ultimately understand my idea, they just have not thought of cotton gloves, they need to read my paper and muse on it. Once they carefully read my paper, they might want to discuss it with their peers or with me. They will absolutely think my idea is the best, simplest, cheapest and most effective measure to stop the spread of COVID-19.
I sent an email to U.S. CDC on March 18 about fabric gloves (at that time I didn’t know how to call the gloves I thought of in English, so I called them fabric gloves), and I called the U.S. CDC on March 20 night (their morning), I was holding the phone and listening the automatic voice and music for nearly an hour, but couldn’t get a representative to speak to, my oral English is not good, I gave up calling them after that. It looks like they have not read my emails, or at least their appropriate scientists have not read my emails.
Wear cotton gloves, they don’t cause any problems to your hands or your health. What do you have to lose? I’m sure it could be a game-changer to solve the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hand washing is cleaning our hands intermittently, wearing cotton gloves is actually cleaning our hands constantly. IF HAND WASHING WORKS, COTTON GLOVES WILL ABSOLUTELY WORK FAR BETTER.
By the way, I think Dr. Rick Bright, an American immunologist and public health official, will absolutely accept my ides. When I watched Dr. Rick Bright testifying on the Capitol Hill on ABC News on May 14th (Reference 2), I noted that Dr. Rick Bright, also wore cotton gloves (eFigure 3). I’m sure Dr. Bright thought that cotton gloves could protect himself. But he have not realized that cotton gloves can also help protect other people and that cotton gloves can help eradicate COVID-19. If he realized those things he would have advised all of the American people to wear cotton gloves.
I posted my idea on Twitter (@WenbinZhaoCN), following are my 2 tweets on May 23:
I, Wenbin Zhao, solemnly swear, I’m 100% confident in my idea that wearing cotton gloves can help stop the spread of COVID-19, and cotton gloves are far better than latex gloves. If my idea doesn’t work, I’d like to accept the most severe penalty under perjury including death.
I will never delete the above tweet. Everyone can snip screenshot the above tweet and save it as evidence to hold me accountable for what I have sworn. This is the confidence of a top scientist of genius on this planet.
I will be welcoming all kinds of criticisms about my cotton glove idea, and I’d like to debate or discuss with anybody about cotton gloves helping stop the spread of COVID-19. Frankly, I have never, never, never, lost in any debate before, and will not lose in any debate in the future, I always win. But I have a feeling it’s going to be too late when the world accepts Wenbin Zhao’s idea until more and more people lose their lives.
I can also explain why the flu outbreaks are in winters. When these respiratory viruses leave our body to be in our environment, they don’t have nutrient pad to replicate, they are in our environment and only wait to die or wait to get into someone’s body. If the virus lives in our environment longer, it can be more dangerous and the disease can be more contagious. The environment is drier and colder, the metabolism of the virus is slower, the metabolism is slower the virus will live longer, and the people will face more danger. We know, winter is drier and colder than other seasons, so the viruses live longer outdoors in winter, so the flu outbreaks are mostly in winter. But it doesn’t matter, by learning COVID-19, I’m sure that masks can also block the spread of the flu, and with cotton gloves, we can also eradicate the flu. Even people don’t trust me, but with more people believing in masks and wearing masks, I’m pretty sure the flu outbreaks in the U.S. will be very weak this winter. This is not a conjecture, it’s a scientific conclusion based on my theories, and this conclusion which I drew before Aug. 11 (in my original post on Medium) has now been confirmed in advance by September 13 ABC News involved the flu in the southern hemisphere (Reference 3).
These are my family’s measures to block COVID-19 in February, March, April and May 2020, when COVID-19 was spreading very badly in China, I’m sure they are the best measures. If COVID-19 comes to our city for a second wave, our family will take these measures again. With these measures, all my families are not afraid of this virus at all.
1. When we get out of home, first wear the new cotton gloves or sterilized cotton gloves, then put on masks.
2. When we are outside, make sure the mask is always on, and try our best to keep the gloves on (eFigure 4). If we need to use phones, we can take off the gloves, but after using the phone, put the gloves on again immediately.
3. When we get back home, carefully take off the gloves into a stainless steel basin, then, carefully take off the mask into a small stainless steel basin. Carefully means only touch the mask’s slings, do not touch the mask’s outer and lining, and let the mask’s lining upwards in the small stainless steel basin (eFigure 5). In this way, the mask can be used many times. And then wash hands completely.
4. After there are more than a dozen of gloves in the stainless steel basin, pour boiling water into the basin, and steam the basin and the glove for about an hour, the gloves are sterilized and can be used again and again.
5. Do not sterilize the masks, because sterilization or even water can damage the mask’s structure and will affect the filtration.
And in fact, during the period of time from February to May 2020, none of our families had ever got a cough, a sneeze, a runny nose or sputum at all, and not even a little. I think our cotton gloves and masks had very successfully blocked all respiratory pathogens from getting into our body, so all our families didn’t even have a little cold during that period of time.
Since June, our families started not wearing cotton gloves and masks (unless some places requiring us to wear a mask). Since June, I myself had sputum and runny nose sometimes, and had cough occasionally. Since June, my two children of 5 and 3 had cough and runny nose sometimes, and in fact they are having cough and runny nose in recent days, but not severe, quite mild, and so we don’t need to see a doctor. And since June, my wife also had a few little colds. I think without cotton gloves and masks, we could easily contract the respiratory pathogens, and so we got the little colds.
As stated above, cotton gloves and masks do have very apparent and very strong effect in blocking respiratory pathogens, of course including blocking COVID-19. And these experiences are exactly an experiment certifying that my theory is correct.
Please trust me, my theory is a one-size-fits-all plan, cotton gloves and masks can stop the spread of all respiratory pathogens including COVID-19 and the flu and even can eradicate them. Please remember, we don’t need a vaccine at all, cotton gloves and masks are the best antidote to COVID-19 pandemic and other respiratory pathogens’ epidemics.
In order for readers to better understand my idea, I would like to refer to an ancient Chinese wisdom story (Reference 4), “To Borrow Arrows with Thatched Boats” (eSupplement Story 1). Zhu Geliang used thatched boats to capture arrows, and I use cotton gloves to capture the viruses. My approach is similar with Zhu Geliang’s.
In order for readers and the world to accept my idea as soon as possible, I’d also like to refer to Nicolaus Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory which was refused for more than 60 years. My theory has not been refused by anyone, because no one has the wisdom to refute my idea. But my idea has been ignored for nearly half a year by some ignorant agencies and persons, I hope you are the Galileo Galilei of today to recognize the Nicolaus Copernicus of today, Wenbin Zhao, and save people’s lives immediately.
In order for readers and the world to trust me, I’d also like to refer to Newton’s Laws, these laws are the truth, Isaac Newton drew these conclusions mainly by observation and thinking, he did not drew these conclusions by doing experiments. Frankly I’m very, very, very good at observation and thinking, and I have successfully solved a lot of problems by observation and thinking. However, as for cotton gloves, I think our families have done the experiment from February to May, and the results support my theory.
I understand that average people can’t immediately understand my theory, a lot of people can’t understand Newton’s laws even when a physics teacher teaches them, let alone teaching themselves about these matters. But my theory can save millions of people’s lives, and can immediately work. So if you are a publisher, even if you can’t understand my theory and you can’t publish my paper, it doesn’t matter, but please kindly publish my idea just as news, or advise other news agencies to publish this news, “Someone thinks Cotton (fabric or cloth) gloves are the game changer to solve the COVID-19 pandemic.”
When people read this news, other scientists and health experts will absolutely discuss this news, once they start to discuss my theory, some scientists or health experts will certainly debate with me about my theory, I’m sure that I can absolutely convince them, and my theory will be accepted by the world in less than a couple of weeks, and my talents can immediately start to save people’s lives.
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List of References
1. On Feb. 6, ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton said, “… Doctor Fauci himself told me that the size of the coronavirus particle is so small that it can infiltrate these surgical masks, so there is no evidence that they are effective in protecting a healthy person. …” The links to the video are as follows:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/home-researchers-working-furiously-learn-vaccine-coronavirus-works-68786300
2. On May 14, on ABC News, Dr. Rick Bright, an American immunologist and public health official, wore cotton gloves testifying on Capitol Hill, The links to the video are as follows:
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/top-health-official-warns-darkest-winter-us-history-70690766
3. On Sep. 13, ABC News correspondent Travor Ault said, “Fears of a dangerous combination of covid and the flu worrying health experts. Though strict measures in the southern hemisphere have successfully diminished the flu season there.” The links to the video are as follows:
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/hope-race-covid-19-vaccine-72988211
4. An ancient Chinese wisdom story, “To Borrow Arrows with Thatched Boats” (eSupplement Story 1). Zhu Geliang used thatched boats to capture arrows, and I use cotton gloves to capture the viruses. My approach is similar with Zhu Geliang’s.
This story is followed as Supplement Story 1.
Supplement Story 1
To Borrow Arrows with Thatched Boats
This is an interesting story from the Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in ancient China, when the Shu and Wu kingdoms joined together to fight against the Wei Kingdom. Zhou Yu, the chief military commander of the Wu Kingdom, ordered Zhu Geliang (the chief minister of the Shu Kingdom and generally regarded as the kingdom’s top master-mind) to produce 100,000 arrows within 10 days.
“Three days is enough,” said Zhu. He also agreed to be punished if he failed to complete the order.
Zhou mocked that Zhu was looking for self-destruction. On the one hand, Zhou ordered his troops not to provide Zhu with materials to make the arrows. He also sent Lu Su to see how Zhu was dealing the problem.
In fact, Zhu had already realized that this was a plot. He asked Lu (who was kind-hearted) to lend him 20 boats, each lined with straw scarecrows and manned by 30 soldiers. He also requested that Lu not tell Zhou what was happening.
When Lu came again to see Zhu, he did not find anything unusual. Nothing happened on the second day either. In the early morning of the third day, Zhu invited Lu for a boat ride. The 20 boats were tied together with strong ropes. Zhu’s fleet sailed toward the camp of Cao Cao (who was the king of the Wei Kingdom).
A thick mist had spread over the surface of the river. People could hardly see each other on the river. When Zhu’s fleet got close to the Cao camp before dawn, Zhu ordered his soldiers to shout and beat drums to fake an attack. Zhu and Lu simply sat inside one of the boats and drank wine to enjoy themselves.
As soon as the Cao camp heard the shouting and drum beating, they mistook it for a surprise attack by the Zhou camp. Since they could see nobody on the river, they gathered 3,000 bowmen and ordered them to shoot arrows. The front of the scarecrows was quickly shot full of arrows.
After a while, Zhu had his fleet turn around to expose the other side of the scarecrows. When this side was also shot full of arrows, the day broke. Zhu ordered his soldiers to return to their base port. The soldiers shouted, “Thank you, Cao, for your arrows.” After they got back to their camp, they collected more than 100,000 arrows from the scarecrows.
