Coronavirus is a disease of the lower respiratory tract that is infectious in nature. For the first time, the pathology was registered in December 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The disease is transmitted by airborne droplets and spreads rapidly. Most people claim that the coronavirus is a fake.
Why did you think it was fake at first?
Initially, they thought that the virus in China was a fake, which was launched to stabilize the economic situation. People believed that, as in the case of SARS, the virus was invented in order to wholesale masks, medicines and disinfectants. Their value increased by 5-10 times, which made it possible to make huge profits.
Other fakes about the new coronavirus
Coronavirus is a new infection that is currently poorly understood. That is why there are various fakes about the coronavirus and about its origin, which causes panic among the masses.
Bananas and Coronavirus
Information has appeared on the Internet about the death of 23 women and men at the Chunming Branch of Xinhua Hospital, aged from 1 year to 35 years. The report indicates that the news is asking not to eat bananas.
Plants are not able to get sick with viruses, so they are not transmitted through bananas and other fruits and vegetables. Similar horror stories in messengers are common. Similar reports said that Russian schools were distributing chewing gum containing drugs for free, leaving AIDS-infected needles from syringes in public places.
Parcels from China and coronavirus
Ali's popular online platform enjoys a high level of popularity, which is explained by its affordable cost. Another fake is that the virus can be transmitted with a parcel. Doctors say that coronavirus is a respiratory disease that is transmitted by airborne droplets. If the patient coughed or sneezed on the parcel or the goods contained in it, then the virus will die during its transportation.
Despite this, the fear of receiving packages from China is international. Deputy of the State Duma of Russia V. Milonov sent a letter to the Director General of the Russian Post and the Minister of Industry with a request to temporarily stop the process of receiving parcels from China, recalling the dormant mode of the virus. In many countries, the work of factories that need the delivery of Chinese components is suspended.
death live
In addition to messages, videos have appeared on the Internet showing people dropping dead, allegedly from the coronavirus. Patients have convulsions or blood from the mouth. When and where such videos were filmed is unknown. Perhaps this is a production with the participation of actors.
The video does not say who was involved in the diagnosis. The scariest thing is that the videos are shown on major media channels. The author of the Telegram channel, which explains the situation, speaks of the suspiciousness of the Chinese. He claims that people in this country love to pretend and therefore can even fall and convulse in order to get to the doctor out of turn.
The virus is the weapon of the Chinese
The first cases of infection with the virus were registered in the Chinese city of Wuhan, on whose territory a biological laboratory is located. After the first cases of infection with the virus were registered, it was assumed that a biological weapon, which is the coronavirus, was created in this laboratory.
Accordingly, the bioweapon theories could not be controlled, so the disease began to develop among its creators. But, scientists suspect that the market of the city of Wuhan, where meat and seafood was sold, became the source of the epidemic. The virus is believed to have spread through bat meat, which the Chinese eat.
The virus is a weapon against the Chinese
Scientists are testing the theory that the coronavirus is a weapon against the Chinese, as the disease is diagnosed to a greater extent among Chinese residents. A. Chepurnov, a virologist professor, in an interview stated that it was impossible to create biological weapons against the inhabitants of a certain ethnic group, since they came from one another, which ensured the confusion of the genome. This indicates the impossibility of creating biological weapons, for example, only against Europeans, Africans or Asians.
Virologists have previously argued that if the epidemic does not subside, then the disease will be diagnosed in representatives of other ethnic groups. In March, not single cases of the spread of the virus in European countries were registered. This is a fake of a global scale, which instantly circled the entire Internet.
Moscow in quarantine
Some sources have information that Moscow is under quarantine. Previously, only one school was closed due to the fact that a student who arrived from Italy was diagnosed with a coronavirus. The Moscow authorities have introduced additional measures to help prevent the massive development of the disease:
- Amendments to the decree of the mayor of Moscow require that quarantine be observed by those people who lived with the person who observed it.
- Free attendance has been introduced in schools, so parents decide on their own whether to take their children to school or leave them at home. To ensure the full-fledged education of the child, you can use the services of the Moscow e-school.
- If a person has signs of an acute respiratory disease, the employer must remove him from work.
Spectacular, public, sports and other mass events are prohibited in the capital until April 10. When planning them, you need to ensure that there are no more than 5 thousand participants. According to the decree of the Ministry of Health, first of all, medical care is provided to patients with suspected coronavirus.
How to learn to recognize fakes on the Internet?
Fakes are created in order to scare people and create panic. They have led to the fact that people are massively purchasing toilet paper and durable food products. To avoid such situations, you need to learn to distinguish fakes on the Internet:
- Screaming title. Such titles of articles should be treated with skepticism, since in most cases false information is placed under them.
- Primary source. After reading the information, you need to make sure that it is taken from a reliable source that has a good reputation.
- Formatting. Fake sites have suspicious layout and post information with grammatical errors.
- Date of. Fake posts have a meaningless chronology. You can determine a lie by the wrong dates of the events.
- Authenticity of information. After reading information about the coronavirus, it is recommended to compare it with messages from other sources. If the information matches, then it's true.
Coronavirus is a serious viral disease that spreads rapidly. But, fakes on the Internet are spreading at an even greater speed. Do not trust the information on the Internet and panic. It is preliminary recommended to evaluate its veracity by checking on authentic sources.