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When COVID 19 came in the year 2019 it brought about death and destruction all over the world. This virus not only affected people...

Just the other day all was good in China. The dragon was rising, other countries were quivering. Then suddenly we have a shift. We go from Karo Na Pyaar Hai to Corona Virus Hai. If we look back at history, and mind you, that is a very stupid sentence because you can’t look forward at history. Although, if history does repeat itself, then when you look back at history, you are also looking forward at the same time. Anyway, please stop arguing. Looking back at history, humanity has suffered so many great diseases. The Loci, the Bubonic Plague, Kim Jong-il, all spring to mind. Along with misery, these diseases had another great point in common. Everyone and their sick mother would dispense advice on how to cope and identify this disease. Some say this continuous stream of unsolicited advice is worse than the disease itself. In the days of the Bubonic plague, the top 5 pieces of advice were (a) Avoid monkeys, (b) Avoid monkey bars, (c) Avoid hairy people, (d) Don’t park too close to the curb, and (e) Return your monkey. All these were erroneous. Mostly because the plague was not caused by baboons, but by a French doctor called Dr Moreau. Who, truth be told, may have had a pet baboon. Although some argued that was simply his hirsute, muscular wife. So, you see from all this, a lot of ‘fake’ news, to quote Donald Trump, is being dispelled. What’s true for before is true for now. So let me, as a humanitarian first, and a medical professional without a degree second, help people understand, myths and facts about today’s Bubonic Plague – The Coronavirus. Which goes by many different names but since those are in Mandarin and Cantonese, we will stick to the virus, corona.