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PSA: Health and Safety!
6 years ago
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Coronavirus, AKA COVID-19, is out there, and spreading around the globe. So, these are a few health and safety reminders, to hopefully help slow the spread of disease, and to help keep you, your families, and everyone you come in contact with, safe and healthy. Share this around!
* WASH YOUR HANDS!! Hot water and antibacterial/antiseptic handsoap can go a LONG way in curtailing the spread of disease. You should wash your hands any time you return home, before eating anything, after using the bathroom, Etc. Another big point is to wash your hands after touching money, door handles, and anything else that other people touch frequently. Money is one of the best vectors for disease transmission that people encounter every day, and same goes for credit card terminals, ATMs, and similar.
* Cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze. This helps prevent the spread of disease. Cough or sneeze into your elbow, a handkerchief, or anything else that will stop your saliva, mucus, and similar from getting around. DON'T cough or sneeze into your hands--that will just spread disease to whatever you touch.
* Make sure your food is well washed and-or cooked as needed. Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
* If you are feeling at all sick, or showing symptoms, stay home from work and public places wherever possible. Even if you're feeling fine and dandy, stay away from optional public spaces (sports events, the gym, eating out, Etc.).
* Eat healthy, exercise, and keep your body in good shape. This won't prevent you from getting or spreading diseases, but it can help you live through them and fight them off.
* Pay attention to government-issued warnings, guidelines, and other health and safety directions.
None of those are really specific to COVID-19, and they should all be common knowledge. However, just as a reminder, have a good look at the above. I've been looking at a lot of stuff about Flat Earthers, Anti-Vaxxers, and other people who don't believe in science, the germ theory of disease, and so on and so forth. From that, I don't have a very high opinion of the intelligence of human society as a whole.
Let me be clear:
* when it comes to disease, the shape of the Earth doesn't matter (It's a sphere).
* Science is real, vaccines and medicine are meant to prevent and treat disease
* It doesn't matter that you can't see viruses or bacteria with your human eyeballs, they exist, they cause disease, they are everywhere, and washing your hands and covering your coughs and sneezes can help stop them from getting around.
* I don't care what your religious beliefs are, as long as you and they aren't hurting others. However, denying the existence of viruses and bacteria, denying modern science and medicine, or ignoring good sanitary practices because "God/Allah/Flying Spaghetti Monster/Cthulhu/Essential oils and homeopathy/Etc. will protect!"--That is hurting you, and others. STOP IT.
* Same goes for if you believe that "disease is natural, we should just let things happen". WRONG. Modern technology has granted us access to clean drinking water, soap and other disease-busting substances, and other weapons in the age-old fight against disease; USE THEM. Or, if you really believe that we shouldn't fight disease because it's "natural", then please give your share of modern sanitation, medicine, vaccination, and similar to someone in the third world who will appreciate it every day of their now-longer life.
* If you believe that we should roll over and let disease devastate the world population because 7+ Billion people is "too many" or "death is natural", one, wrong again, every human life is precious. And two, please get off the internet and instead get first in line for "adjusting" the world's population downwards (again, by trading your clean drinking water, modern medicine, and so forth, for unsanitary, unhealthy, primitive conditions. Give the clean drinking water and life-saving modern amenities to someone who needs and values them if you don't).
* COVID-19 and other diseases aren't a conspiracy by "Big Pharma" and world government(s ). They are real, they are a threat, take them seriously. Preventative medicine (including hand washing and vaccination) costs less than curing and treating a disease, and is more effective at beating that disease back. Therefore, someone who wanted to curb global population and bring back diseases that were on the verge of being eradicated would find the best way would be to fan the flames of the Anti-Vax movement, spreading baseless arguments on the internet to get people to stop believing in germs, medicine, and science. Don't be a tool--vaccinate, wash your hands, Etc.
Sorry for ranting a bit. Please share this around, along with any other safety suggestions that I may have missed.
And, most importantly of all: I will be praying against the spread of coronavirus, and for the recovery of those who've caught it. I ask you all to do the same. I am a Christian, I believe that God is real and that He is more powerful than any disease. I also believe that science works, and that God helps those who take common sense steps to help themselves and those around them, as outlined above.
Stay safe, stay healthy, God Bless.
* WASH YOUR HANDS!! Hot water and antibacterial/antiseptic handsoap can go a LONG way in curtailing the spread of disease. You should wash your hands any time you return home, before eating anything, after using the bathroom, Etc. Another big point is to wash your hands after touching money, door handles, and anything else that other people touch frequently. Money is one of the best vectors for disease transmission that people encounter every day, and same goes for credit card terminals, ATMs, and similar.
* Cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze. This helps prevent the spread of disease. Cough or sneeze into your elbow, a handkerchief, or anything else that will stop your saliva, mucus, and similar from getting around. DON'T cough or sneeze into your hands--that will just spread disease to whatever you touch.
* Make sure your food is well washed and-or cooked as needed. Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
* If you are feeling at all sick, or showing symptoms, stay home from work and public places wherever possible. Even if you're feeling fine and dandy, stay away from optional public spaces (sports events, the gym, eating out, Etc.).
* Eat healthy, exercise, and keep your body in good shape. This won't prevent you from getting or spreading diseases, but it can help you live through them and fight them off.
* Pay attention to government-issued warnings, guidelines, and other health and safety directions.
None of those are really specific to COVID-19, and they should all be common knowledge. However, just as a reminder, have a good look at the above. I've been looking at a lot of stuff about Flat Earthers, Anti-Vaxxers, and other people who don't believe in science, the germ theory of disease, and so on and so forth. From that, I don't have a very high opinion of the intelligence of human society as a whole.
Let me be clear:
* when it comes to disease, the shape of the Earth doesn't matter (It's a sphere).
* Science is real, vaccines and medicine are meant to prevent and treat disease
* It doesn't matter that you can't see viruses or bacteria with your human eyeballs, they exist, they cause disease, they are everywhere, and washing your hands and covering your coughs and sneezes can help stop them from getting around.
* I don't care what your religious beliefs are, as long as you and they aren't hurting others. However, denying the existence of viruses and bacteria, denying modern science and medicine, or ignoring good sanitary practices because "God/Allah/Flying Spaghetti Monster/Cthulhu/Essential oils and homeopathy/Etc. will protect!"--That is hurting you, and others. STOP IT.
* Same goes for if you believe that "disease is natural, we should just let things happen". WRONG. Modern technology has granted us access to clean drinking water, soap and other disease-busting substances, and other weapons in the age-old fight against disease; USE THEM. Or, if you really believe that we shouldn't fight disease because it's "natural", then please give your share of modern sanitation, medicine, vaccination, and similar to someone in the third world who will appreciate it every day of their now-longer life.
* If you believe that we should roll over and let disease devastate the world population because 7+ Billion people is "too many" or "death is natural", one, wrong again, every human life is precious. And two, please get off the internet and instead get first in line for "adjusting" the world's population downwards (again, by trading your clean drinking water, modern medicine, and so forth, for unsanitary, unhealthy, primitive conditions. Give the clean drinking water and life-saving modern amenities to someone who needs and values them if you don't).
* COVID-19 and other diseases aren't a conspiracy by "Big Pharma" and world government(s ). They are real, they are a threat, take them seriously. Preventative medicine (including hand washing and vaccination) costs less than curing and treating a disease, and is more effective at beating that disease back. Therefore, someone who wanted to curb global population and bring back diseases that were on the verge of being eradicated would find the best way would be to fan the flames of the Anti-Vax movement, spreading baseless arguments on the internet to get people to stop believing in germs, medicine, and science. Don't be a tool--vaccinate, wash your hands, Etc.
Sorry for ranting a bit. Please share this around, along with any other safety suggestions that I may have missed.
And, most importantly of all: I will be praying against the spread of coronavirus, and for the recovery of those who've caught it. I ask you all to do the same. I am a Christian, I believe that God is real and that He is more powerful than any disease. I also believe that science works, and that God helps those who take common sense steps to help themselves and those around them, as outlined above.
Stay safe, stay healthy, God Bless.
