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I'm not sure that hospitals are the places you want to go if you have this unless you're gravely ill. Hospitals are hot zones for other illnesses and bacteria and also as expensive as 5 star hotels. Stay home, take the meds your doctor prescribes and keep in contact with them if your conditions worsens and then seek other treatment.
But on the one hand the media is playing this up as the end on life as we know it and then at the same time admonishing people for panicking and urging them to remain calm. Schizoid much? I'll stick to social media and local news sources.
And then there's the idiot factor. Watching people buying water( the most senseless purchase unless you don't have running water at your place) and being paranoid about picking up germs from things they touch. I'll bet many don't even practice cleanliness at home and haven't cleaned their homes in months. Have they ever washed their hands before they ate before? After they use the rest room? Use that can of lysol spray and and anti bacterial cleaning wipes to clean your bathroom and not to spray the can of soup you're buying or the handle of the shopping cart you're afraid to touch.
And instead of buying a months supply of junk food, canned pasta and ding dongs and pop tarts, buy some food that will boost your immune system and make your body better able to fight off infection. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Or vitamin supplements. You know sauerkraut has anti viral qualities? They gave chickens kim chi during the avian flu epidemic and they recovered faster and didn't become sick.
El Salvador shuts borders to foreign visitors due to virus
El Salvador's president has imposed a national quarantine that prohibits any foreigners from entering the Central American country for 30 days to try to keep out the new coronavirus. President Nayib Bukele also said public and private schools would be closed for 21 days. El Salvador has no confirmed cases of the virus. https://www.thestandard.com.hk/break...reign-visitors
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Good. Their health care system is so weak and there are so many poor people.. they wouldn't survive this... Smart for them to close up.
1. A surgical mask is not intended to keep a virus out. The purpose is to keep the surgeon contaminating the patient during surgery.
2. The correct type of masks are so cheap in mass that the US could have tens of millions of them for the price of one fighter jet. Does a fighter jet protect America better than 100 million free good face masks?
Good for them. Everyone should be protecting their people from the Coronavirus. Nobody should let other people shame them into not taking care of themselves and their own.
Washington (CNN)The nation's top infectious disease expert on Sunday did not rule out supporting a temporary national lockdown of the country's restaurants and bars in order to curb the spread of coronavirus, saying he'd like to see a "dramatic" reduction in activity in order to fight the disease.
"In cities all over the country, bars and restaurants have been packed with people. This was the case last night," CNN's Brianna Keilar said to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, during an interview on "State of the Union." "Would you like to see a national lockdown? Basically, 'People -- you can't go out to restaurants, bars. You need to stay home.' "
"I would like to see a dramatic diminution of the personal interaction that we see in restaurants and in bars. Whatever it takes to do that, that's what I'd like to see," Fauci replied.
A surgical mask is not intended to keep a virus out. The purpose is to keep the surgeon contaminating the patient during surgery.
A respirator is intended to keep the droplets and aerosols OUT. In the USA this is the N95 or N100 respirator. Other countries have a different code. Looks like a mask but is really officially called a respirator. It forms a seal around the face so that the wearer doesn't breathe in sprays on the side of the mask.
They are in short supply. Even being rationed by health care workers. These are to protect the person wearing the mask. Someone that is sick is ok wearing a surgical mask because it protects the outward spray from reaching others. But someone wanting to be protected from others that have the virus would wear N95 or N100 respirator.
Is the reason for US authorities telling people not to wear masks/respirators, is because they are in such short supply that they are needed for healthcare workers? Regular people can stay home but healthcare workers that are treating patients with the virus must have the respirators for protection.
Wonder if those pandemic experts that Trump fired would have ensured proper stockpile of the correct protective equipment, so that we wouldn't have the current shortage.
It really is common sense. Seems our citizens don't have much. All it takes is one kitchen worker or server to spread the virus to many people. Plus the servers carry plates of food past tables where there may be someone with the virus. Scary that one can be infected and not know it... spreading it to everyone nearby.
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El Salvador shuts borders to foreign visitors due to virus
