Where do people get these things from? What I don't get is its a new disease, so people are still trying to figure it out, so why are there so many people out there that think there are super-easy ways to resolve it?

www.smh.com.au/national/pull-the-other-one-drinking-hot-water-and-other-dangerous-myths-about-the-virus-20200324-p54dbj.html


If it were that easy to resolve, people wouldn't be dying and we wouldn't all be so stressed out about getting it.

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Did you hear that Japanese scientists have found that a dry mouth will increase your chances of falling ill with coronavirus, so you should drink water every 15 minutes to wash pathogens into your stomach acid?

Or that it's confirmed by researchers at Stanford that the virus is not heat-resistant and that keeping things above 27 degrees neutralises the threat? Gargling with bleach is also apparently effective, if done cautiously."

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None of this is true, of course. But I've seen it all circulating on social media. You've probably seen it too. And it's almost always shared by well-intentioned friends and relatives.

They used to be old wives's tales. Now they've been turbocharged into fake news. The reason this news travels - like a virus - is that people are inclined to believe what they hear from family and friends. But Uncle Jack never used to have a megaphone to yell about how garlic every morning would stop the virus.
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What annoyed me was some stupid post on facebook suggesting that "we" survived all these earlier pandemics, and "we" will survive this one... yeah, tell that to the people that died in every single one of them.