Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a human pathogen. Viruses similar to COVID-19 spread in the same way as the flu: infection from coughing, sneezing, and contact with contaminated bodily fluids.
Symptoms of the coronavirus are similar to those of the seasonal flu: congestion, coughing, fever, headache and nausea.
The majority (4 out of every 5 people infected) will have mild flu-like symptoms.
COVID-19 poses the greatest risk to the very old, very young, and immunocompromised (asthmatic patients, recent surgery patients, people with chronic long term illness and people undergoing chemotherapy).
Again for the record: AS FAR AS WE KNOW CORONAVIRUS POSES NO SIGNIFICANT LONG TERM IMPLICATIONS UNLESS YOU ARE ALREADY IMMUNOCOMPROMISED.
The spread of novel coronavirus can be prevented by proper hygiene. Wash your hands thoroughly, including in between your fingers and under your nails, use hand sanitiser, and make sure to cough and sneeze into tissues or into the crook of your elbow to minimise droplet infection.
If you are returning from an affected area and begin to experience flu-like symptoms, self-isolate at home for 14 days and contact your local health authority to inform them - this can be done by calling the NHS 111 number in the UK.
DO NOT WALK INTO A&E / THE EMERGENCY ROOM IF YOU'VE RECENTLY RETURNED FROM AN AFFECTED AREA AND ARE EXPERIENCING SYMPTOMS: IF YOU DO HAVE THE CORONAVIRUS YOU ARE POTENTIALLY EXPOSING THE AT-RISK GROUP TO THE VIRUS.
Remember, your flu symptoms are far, FAR more likely to be the actual flu than coronavirus.
I'm a biomedical scientist. Knowing how disease works is uh. literally my job. For most of us, the coronavirus poses no significant risk. The precautions are to protect those who are already ill/unable to fight the disease effectively.
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NHS advice about coronavirus (COVID-19), including what the risk in the UK is, what the symptoms are and how to reduce your chances of getti
Information for the public on the outbreak of coronavirus in China, including the current situation in the UK and information about the viru
capitalists will literally be like "it's cheaper to address homelessness by installing hostile architecture and hoping they all die rather than giving them a place to live" and bootlickers will be like "sounds good to me"
The last one is it. You can show them the research demonstrating that it will be cheaper and they’ll say, literally HAVE said, that giving them something “before they earned it” is in some way immoral, that it’s somehow unfair or hurtful to people who have jobs, and that it will make people “lazier.” They genuinely think the threat of starvation and death is where work ethic comes from and that this is the glue holding civilization together.
They also tend to convince themselves that people who are homeless often did something to deserve it, and therefore we must keep them punished until they fix their situation by themselves.
These are murderous, sadistic, obscene views to hold and the people who choose to hold them barely have any humanity.
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