Love in the time of Corona virus

cdc recommendations

shorter version via Phil Airlines. 

1. Frequently wash your hands with soap and running water or alcohol-based cleansers, even if your hands are not visibly dirty. It is recommended to wash your hands:
   a. After coughing or sneezing
   b. Before and after eating
   c. After toilet use
   d.Before and after meal preparation
   e.After handling animals/ animal waste
   f. After handling meat and poultry
   g. If there is visible dirt
2. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.  
3. When coughing and sneezing, move away from people and cover your nose and mouth with tissue or flexed elbow. Throw away used tissues properly.
4. Avoid unprotected contact with farm or wild animals:
5. Ensure that food is well-cooked
6. Maintain a healthy lifestyle to build immunity. Eating nutritious food, take enough rest, exercise regularly, and drink plenty of water.

video instructions:

This version of the Corona virus is no more serious than influenza. (on the other hand, during influenza epidemics, we worked our fingers to the bone trying to cope with patients, and we lost some of them).

 That said, unlike influenza, that perculates slowly through a population (where many have partial immunity) the coronavirus could explode. The result will be a collapse of the medical infrastructure as medical personnel get sick, supplies run out, and a lot of the elderly and vulnerable die.

as to the comparisons to the 1918 epidemic: several differences: This virus hits the elderly and sick the hardest. The 1918 flu hit the younger population who had no partial immunity from a previous infections. Also, the 1918 influenza hit a population already malnourished from the famines of the war, including deliberate blockades of civilians in 1917 and 1918, the loss of farmers in the war, and of course, he collapse of the infrastructure that supplied food to cities in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Ottoman Empires.

also, many died of secondary pneumonia because there were no antibiotics.

Black humor is common in medicine (laughing at death? Yes we do. It is a way to cope)

: my step son got upset about this, but I have a morbid sense of humor. so here is a shorter film on coping in an epidemic: