[Bored chemist]

They have a longer term impact on the water-oil equilibrium.

How?

The question becomes, why  is a Corona Virus infected life worth more than a heart disease life,

It isn't.
Nobody said it was.
The current precautions- telling people to stay home- do not particularly benefit those with the disease.

What is important (and the reason for the lockdown) is stopping it spreading.
Since heart disease isn't infectious, your comparison is silly.
Please don't waste more bandwidth on it.

The political stuff is irrelevant.

So, before you do anything else, you should actually answer my point (or accept that you simply lied)


Quote from: Bored chemist on Today at 12:54:48
What basic chemistry do you think have I got wrong?

[puppypower (OP)]

I was reading the news and an article suggested that new data is saying that many deaths from Corona Virus are now being attributed to blood clots. This is not unexpected, in terms of a water side analysis. The oil people, on the other hand, were taken by surprise. This virus has been tough on the oil people but a intermedia level application for the water people.

In terms of a water side analysis for the clotting, the very beginning paragraphs of this topic will set the stage for you. Further detailed background can be found in the topic  "Are water and organics copartners in life".

The surface of the Corona virus is covered in spikes. Their radial orientation, that are separated from each other and perpendicular to the surface, tells me these spikes are connected to the water side of the water-oil equilibrium. The spikes help set up a stable state of cooperative hydrogen bonding, by which they can generate the activation free energy reservoir needed for cell entry. To enter, they need a lock and key way, to break the cooperative, and release the stored free energy at the surface of the host.

In terms of blood clotting, as more and more virus enter body fluids, such as mucous and the blood, the equilibrium is pushed more  toward the water side.. This is  due to the spikes and their hydrogen bonding cooperative nature. The impact is that the organics in the blood, such as clotting factors now start to create too much surface tension at equilibrium, and will start to phase separate out into larger clumps or clots. It we take olive oil and water,and shake these, they will form an emulsion. If we let it settle, the olive oil beads into larger and larger bubbles; clotting. 

The larger Corona story appears to be something like this. Medical conditions that add to much oil side to the blood, such as diabetes; glucose, or obesity; body fat, become counter productive to the surface cooperative hydrogen bonding, that wants to form on the corona spikes. The virus induces the cooperative hydrogen bonding, but his is less stable at equilibrium. This makes it easier to release their stored free energy, so the virus can enter cells easier; stronger oil side push for entry. 

Once the virus starts to multiply, their ever increasing numbers begin to have an accumulative water side impact on the reduced blood. This starts to cause clotting to lower the surface tension. Excess blood glucose, for example, in diabetes, adds reduction potential or oil side potential to he blood. However, glucose cannot clot or phase separate due to its high solubility. The heavy lifting, needed for equilibrium, is delegated onto the clotting factors, which are designed to separate and clot based on water equilibria.

When you get a cut on your finger, nerves and blood vessels are cut. The open nerve endings send water side signals; ionic, to the cut zone. This will temporarily alter the local water-oil equilibrium, toward the water side and trigger clotting. The accumulating clotting then shifts the local equilibrium back toward the oil side. This is useful for cell proliferation. The brain continues to send fine tuning signals to the cut, from an ideal back copy of a body blue print, within the brain, spine and nervous system. The brain is engaged in 3-D printing of new cells to restore the original as close as possible.   

It is too bad all the resources are going the "OIL people" and nothing to the "WATER people".