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You wont get infected, if you dont spread it elsewhere, e.g. touch by this hand face and etc. (control yourself, sometimes people scratch face by hand "automatically")
Just open doors normally, but keep this hand away from everything else, dont touch anything, next wash it with small bottle of alcohol-based sanitizer when it is appropriate.
Anyone craving to eat the skin around their nails?
Ya like jazz wroteWhat about brass/copper door handles, always heard that they are self disinfecting.
Not true.
nuclearcat wrote Not true.
Disinfecting is a strong word but I also read that bacteria survive much less on copper compared to stainless steel.
With a all measures being taken , there is also a probability that a coronavirus can enter our respiratory system. Measures I am taking to mimimize the risk:

1st:
Leaving my mouth and throat moisturized all the day ( drinking water and liquids in a frequent manner). The virus when it enters it doesnot enter the lungs directly , water and liquids will flush out the mouth and throat area towards the stomach. The stomach acid will kill any virus / bacteria.

2nd:
Taking a morning deep breath and holding it for 10 seconds to spot any fatique in the lower lungs ( cough , stiffness , discomfort , tightness ...) This may indicate if any lungs fibrosis exists

3rd:
Taking my body temperature daily

4th:
High Body Temoerature + Fail of Breath Test ( Possibility of Lung Fibrosis) = I will self take the RT-PCR corona diagnosting blood test at AUBMC

5th:
Drinking and eating food that boost the immunity system such as:
+Fresh Juice ( Orange)
+Vitamine C Tablets 1000mg (Ester C is Good)
+Crushing and eating raw garlic
+Spoon of Genuine Honey

6th:
Doing sports (Minimum) 30 min per day on daily bases

7th:
Using Dettol disinfectant spray

8th:
Using an N95 respirator mask ( ordered some from Amaozn - M3 is a reliable brand) , wearing it in congested places.

9th:
Exposing all wahsed cloths to dry in the direct sun light ( I live on the 7th floor with a large balcony and sufficient sun exposure). Sun a a natural quarinator. Frequent cloths washing ( after each work day ).

Finally, leaving it to GOD without over reacting and living in fear , we are all destined to die at the end. With coronavirus or without , different ways one destiny. Doing my daily activities like normal days ( I have a government post now and we are closed till Monday).

Edit: Paid Leave is aproved by the Government until 31/3/2020- edit of this month.
Don't abuse high doses of vitamin C unless its necessary. They make kidneys issues, starting from stones.

Most efficient is alcohol-based disinfectants. Dettol might be inefficient against this specific virus (they are different composition).
I think some people are overreacting. My boss used to type letters on my computer while recharging his. Now he won't touch it anymore. He also washes his hands every 15 minutes. He actually set an alarm on his phone for it.

Personally, I am more or less safe as I only interact with the same limited number of people every day. But I am leaving it to God.
My friend got a 7 days holiday from work.

Today we were told to pack our stuff and start working from home until further notice
Tech Guru wroteWith a all measures being taken , there is also a probability that a coronavirus can enter our respiratory system. Measures I am taking to mimimize the risk:

1st:
Leaving my mouth and throat moisturized all the day ( drinking water and liquids in a frequent manner). The virus when it enters it doesnot enter the lungs directly , water and liquids will flush out the mouth and throat area towards the stomach. The stomach acid will kill any virus / bacteria.

2nd:
Taking a morning deep breath and holding it for 10 seconds to spot any fatique in the lower lungs ( cough , stiffness , discomfort , tightness ...) This may indicate if any lungs fibrosis exists

3rd:
Taking my body temperature daily

4th:
High Body Temoerature + Fail of Breath Test ( Possibility of Lung Fibrosis) = I will self take the RT-PCR corona diagnosting blood test at AUBMC

5th:
Drinking and eating food that boost the immunity system such as:
+Fresh Juice ( Orange)
+Vitamine C Tablets 1000mg (Ester C is Good)
+Crushing and eating raw garlic
+Spoon of Genuine Honey

6th:
Doing sports (Minimum) 30 min per day on daily bases

7th:
Using Dettol disinfectant spray

8th:
Using an N95 respirator mask ( ordered some from Amaozn - M3 is a reliable brand) , wearing it in congested places.

9th:
Exposing all wahsed cloths to dry in the direct sun light ( I live on the 7th floor with a large balcony and sufficient sun exposure). Sun a a natural quarinator. Frequent cloths washing ( after each work day ).

Finally, leaving it to GOD without over reacting and living in fear , we are all destined to die at the end. With coronavirus or without , different ways one destiny. Doing my daily activities like normal days ( I have a government post now and we are closed till Monday).

Edit: Paid Leave is aproved by the Government until 31/3/2020- edit of this month.
You don't have to go nuts. It is good to keep healthy and get your vitamins, but not sure about the honey and garlic, but to each their own. You didn't include probably the most important thing--getting enough sleep. No matter what you are taking to boost your immune system, not getting enough sleep will put you more at risk.

Also, if you want to make your own hand sanitizer (super easy), 2 parts as close to 100% alcohol as you can find, and 1 part aloe vera gel or something similar. Mix until blended well and put in containers of choice. You can add a few drops something like 'mazaher' or 'mawared' to change the smell

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Being home for a few days now working as a freelancer. I just got sent some money via MoneyGram, any ideas if there is somewhere still open today that I can cash out USD from?
Things are flipping towards a negative outlook. 149 Registered cases & confirmed so far by the Ministry of Health. Many others maybe holding the virus without accurate clinical confirmation (Doing the PCR test). The Minister of Health ordered today to isolate the areas of Jbeil , Keserwan and maybe later Ibaabda. I think we entered the danger zone , and iam afraid to reach the Italian crises now ( 400+ deaths per day).

Lebanon economic condition will stress people more too. Other countries are giving citizen allowances , free rents , ... We are far away here to reach that due to the current economic stagnation .. added to the home quarantine zone.

#BeSafe
IMO the virus is going to hit us sooner or later.... I'm being cautious but until a vaccine is available, the outlook is bad.
I knew things are going to slip and it will slip more. Simply many here are underestimating and being reckless about the seriousness of the corona virus. Thankful all the measures I have been taken donot fall in "going nuts". The Italian crises can be taken here is a raw model , but rackless people here & there are doing wedding , opening gaming lounges in a secret way , public prayers etc..

As a side note, 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power - the idea is consists of using your computer to complete small chunks of much larger problems, thus giving researchers access to an unprecedented amount of compute horsepower. Mainly geaphic cards are the back bone of heavy computes (like bitcoin mining). 467PetaFlops = 467,000 TeraFlops.

Super data mining working togather each from his Nvidia card from home.



https://www.tomshardware.com/news/folding-at-home-worlds-top-supercomputers-coronavirus-covid-19
I believe in testing. This illness has a long incubation period and there are reports of asymptomatic transmission so we can fight it most efficiently by doing testing so that the healthy ones can keep things going and the sick ones can isolate and heal.

I mean at least we need to know where the virus is spreading so that we can concentrate our efforts and resources efficiently.
Tech Guru wroteThings are flipping towards a negative outlook. 149 Registered cases & confirmed so far by the Ministry of Health.
#BeSafe
I believe that once this is done 20% of the population would have been infected, I estimate that it will start to end in 3 months. I estimate that by then we will have 2500 to 10000 deaths in Lebanon.

The number of cases is not very reliable because AFAIK they are not doing wide testing in Lebanon so the number you see are just people who are very sick and go to the hospital and are tested. I would guess there are at least 400 cases in Lebanon, in reality.

These are very rough preliminary estimations based on what happened in other places...
rolf wrote
Tech Guru wroteThings are flipping towards a negative outlook. 149 Registered cases & confirmed so far by the Ministry of Health.
#BeSafe
I believe that once this is done 20% of the population would have been infected, I estimate that it will start to end in 3 months. I estimate that by then we will have 2500 to 10000 deaths in Lebanon.

The number of cases is not very reliable because AFAIK they are not doing wide testing in Lebanon so the number you see are just people who are very sick and go to the hospital and are tested. I would guess there are at least 400 cases in Lebanon, in reality.

These are very rough preliminary estimations based on what happened in other places...
I agree , however there are masked cases no one is exposing / registering it. Only two official sources registering the cases:

Ministry of Health & Rafiq Harriri Government Hospital.

The Reckless Approach that has been followed will get things worser:

First, taking only the temperature of arriving passengers from infected areas. Knowing that the virus incubation period is 7-21Days for symptoms to appear.

Second, taking very easy/careless mesaures for people on religious purpose visits ( mainly from Iran / Italy) as if they have a divine protection / passport.

Third, the illegal routes of the Lebanese-Syrian borders unsurvellied always. Points of border at Masaa & Abudieh no tough measures.

Point here there mare many crackes for the virus to boom here , which is the case now. Many donot have at all any somatic symptoms ( strong immune system) yet holding the virus & infecting others. Some who are actually infected are not reporting their cases even.
#Hydroxychloroquine (Dolquine) & #Azithromycin Alert:

To all following the latest updates for #Covid_19 treatment don’t take Hydroxychloroquine (Dolquine) & Azithromycin without medical prescription, both drugs affect the QT interval and lead to serious cardiovascular effect(arrythmia, death).

Still not validated even the story began last week in the USA by using an anti - malaria medicine but the pool of patient being tested on was low. Further testing on larger scale is being taken.