As New Coronavirus Spread, China's Old Habits Delayed Fight

[Hekate]

18. I disposed of that one by pointing out that measles is itself "airborne" by its very nature...

...as live virus are breathed out of the lungs of the sick and inhaled at some remove by the not-yet-sick.

Use facts. People are scared, and I can't really blame them, considering the anti-science SOBs we have in Washington right now, as well as social media (especially FB). The entire planet is connected by airplanes, and airplanes are rather nasty hotboxes of rebreathed air. Mass transit of all kinds connects us. Back in the day, the AIDS virus spread along the long-distance truck routes in India as truckers did what a lot of truckers do at rest stops. The defense was education about safe sex, not shutting down trucking.

But we're not all gonna die. Science and facts are our best defense. As a nurse friend said of th current situation, use hand sanitizer a lot.

Still, my sis and I are not going to be able to travel to visit our very sick brother for several months; myself, because I am within 2 weeks of total knee replacement surgery, and herself, because she just got out of almost a week in the hospital after a very bad bout of asthma which may actually be COPD (never smoked, ever). We are, by age and condition, now in a fairly high risk group for a bunch of shit we were not before, and you do have to weigh things.

Carry on.