I've been receiving a lot of useful information about the COVID-19. I need to drink a lot of warm water with lemon and garlic every 15 minutes and it needs to be above 27.7 C degrees as this temperature will kill the virus. I'm now sure I'm safe - I have read it on the Internet, it must be true.
I'm scared, you know? My friends are getting ill with "severe flu", not getting tested, not being admitted to the hospital. So far all recover after a couple days but who can guarantee I will be safe? It's so tempting to believe the excellent advice from an epidemiologist in the Wuhan advice who faced repercussions from the Communist Party after sharing it, even if it turns out that the hospital is in Iran and the epidemiologist is a midwife that has never had anything to do with China or published any research on viruses.
I have stated two facts in the title:
- Coronavirus is real - it's there, it's spreading, it's scary, it can hit hard,
- You will die - so will I, hopefully neither does today or anytime soon.
Fact-check, please!
I just wanted to ask you that you at least try to search the internet for a bit of the "excellent advice" you receive. If it's recorded or on video, write down a bit of it and also search. It's quite often done so to make fact checking require more effort.
I found two services quite quickly that offer some fact checking:
And there's more.
Alt News also share their fact checking methodology.
But it doesn't hurt if I follow the advice!
It does.
- You're subject to a fear campaign
- You follow unverified practices that take away some of your energy you should focus on what really work
- You're spreading the fear
- You may become a victim of harmful advice
I would like to wish us all that we get to talk about how scary COVID-19 was back in 2020, in a year or two. There's a risk that it will not be the case. Please exercise social distancing.
Good luck everyone.
Oh, Hi Hive.