Coronavirus - MD's Advice to Family Goes Viral
March 4, 2020
I confess to swinging back and forth as to whether the Coronavirus is a lethal threat. Virologist James Robb's advice to family and friends, below, alarms me.
"It was my email to my family and close friends ONLY. Someone put it on their Facebook page. It was intended to be a monologue - not a dialogue. I do not use any social media and may have been too naive about what "sharing" means today."
James Robb: "I hope that this pandemic will be reasonably contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available."
Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic
by James Robb, MD UC San Diego
(henrymakow.com)
Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources.
The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.
Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:
1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been.
6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!
What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.
Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.
2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you - it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth - it is only to keep you from touching your nose or mouth.
3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this.
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First Comment from Peter S:
Dr. Henry, whatever the situation may be, on whether corona virus is as deadly as it is being hyped up to be, the gist of the matter should be clear to all; that as each day passes, the world is becoming smaller and smaller, and instead of being any safer, our own wickedness and ignorance is being used against us. I keep hearing of people getting "Flu-vaccine" "Flu-vaccine" for crying out loud!! The last time I took medicine to cure flu, was more than fourty years ago. And it was a simple mint like stuff which I liked more because of its flavour that its potency. Even if the claim that corona virus is the "Big One", just observe how easily it is for the government to take advantage of a terrible situation in order to entrench its authority even more, in our lives! They never let any opportunity pass by even if, its lives being lost.
When Aids first was diagnosed, the same theatrics we are witnessing were used. Today, you hardly hear of it, though people are dying. You would have thought that governments would be more concerned about it too.
The more you come to think of how evil people have become, and these same evil people are manning our governments, who can you really trust?
Z said (March 6, 2020):
Pathogenic' viruses do not exist. No scientist has ever purified or isolated these alleged pathogenic viruses from the host cells. I can submit an article explaining it. It's a fear mongering and the end goal is to make vaccination compulsory, starting with the right to travel.
You are doing a disservice to your readers by helping to spread the fear.
For a start, you should be reading Jon's blog -
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/
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Z
I post both sides, including Rappoport.
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