Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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What's going on?

Cyberdad, I see nothing wrong with a person contradicting themselves when confronted with something that challenges their past beliefs or statement. It's called learning and growing. And being human. Better than sticking to some arbitrary need not to conflict with what was said in the past, and maintaining a rigid worldview that you don't even feel sincere about any longer, which is the alternative.

The main infection point - boots on the ground.

Dr. David Price of Weill Cornell Medical Center is a New York City doctor and he has the following advice on how people can prevent spreading the coronavirus.

Price went on say the virus is primarily transmitted by touching someone who has the virus and then touching your face.

"The ways that you get this is the transmission of the virus almost exclusively from your hands to your face, from your hands to your face and inside your eyes, into your nose or into your mouth," Price explained. "So there's a lot of talk about contact or getting it through contacts, hands to face."

The doctor also addressed the idea that the virus is transmitted by "long sustained contact" or through the air.

"There's also a small thought that it can be aerosolized, that it can kind of exist a little bit in the air," Price said. "The thought at this point is that you actually have to have very long sustained contact with someone. And I'm talking about over 15 to 30 minutes in an unprotected environment, meaning you're in a very closed room without any type of mask for you to get it that way."

"But very simply stated, the overwhelming majority of people are getting this by physically touching someone who has this disease or will develop it in the next one to two days and then touching their face," he pointed out.

First focus on your hands, just keep them clean and you will not get this disease, Price said. "The second thing is you have to start psychologically working on the connection between your hands and your face."

"Those two things combined is incredibly powerful and will prevent the transmission of disease in your family in 99 percent of cases, to know your hands are clean and not touch your face, period," Price added.

Source: Dr. David Price on how to prevent COVID-19 from spreading: Clean hands and do 'not touch your face, period'

^ I was just about to post that very positive report. It takes time to understand in practice how a disease is spread, but that understanding is now beginning to develop. (Quite fast in historical terms, but it seems slow while we are in the middle of it.)