Perhaps, the solution to the Coronavirus is simple enough. Perhaps health officials have already told us what that solution is.
Wash your hands as often as they get dirty. Cough into your elbow or into a tissue. Keep your hands away from your nose, eyes and mouth.
And, what if we added to that, everyone wear a mask?
Germs are spread through the air, and by the touch of the hand. It would seem that simple, then: Follow the basic rules, and the germs just won't spread.
Getting everyone to do this? Or, at least a significant portion of us? Let our newscasts preach it. Let our leaders stress it. Let one person encourage another.
There are fineries to be worked out. Do we take off our masks to sneeze and cough? Otherwise, the germs remain in our mask, and does that make them incubators instead of filters?
And, with all this, I wonder if we cut off all the germs, if that actually in the long run would do more harm than good. We build up immunities by taking in some germs. If we had no immunities, once a germ got through, would it be more deadly than ever?
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