Before anything else, a request. If you’re a student, graduate, or a member of the professions — now is your time to shine. With many of our family and friends in a state of panic and alarm over the novel coronavirus, we have the obligation to calmly explain to them what it is and what to do.
Perhaps the most important stuff to share right now is the World Health Organization’s public advisory on how to reduce the risk of coronavirus infection. WHO’s five-point advisory is rather easy to explain and do: Clean hands with soap and water, or alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Cover nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing with tissue or flexed elbow. Avoid close contact with anyone with cold or flu-like symptoms. Thoroughly cook meat and eggs.
If we do these two things, the effort could mean many lives spared and saved. And at a time of disinformation and panic, we could be forces of social good, science and understanding — which if we remember was partly why we were brought to school to study in the first place. The demand to temporarily ban flights from all of China is well-meaning and urgent. China is ground zero for the coronavirus, and the first recorded infection in the country is a visitor from China. Many other countries have done it as one of the preemptive measures to stop the spread of the virus and as medical experts scramble to find an antiviral to address infections. It is apparent that the feelings of Beijing are more important to the government than the health of our own people.
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