Anxiety about Coronavirus?

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Should we be worried or is the news just hyping it up? It’s actually making me extremely anxious. My prayers are becoming more powerful lately because of it.
 
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I don’t want to make your anxiety worse, but unless you live in Wuhan, you have a much, much greater chance of dying from getting hit by a car or even falling down the stairs at your house than by catching coronavirus. I live in a nice area and yesterday I heard that several people got hepatitis from eating contaminated food at the country club and one guy was in the hospital for weeks and has permanent liver damage. You can die of all sorts of stuff, why get excited about some virus? When God decides it’s your time to die you’ll die.
 
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On a scale of 1 - 10 my anxiety level over coronavirus
is probably a 2.
 
7_Sorrows said:
On a scale of 1 - 10 my anxiety level over coronavirus
is probably a 2.
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I don’t even want to get into how many other things I have to be anxious about in my immediate life other than coronavirus right now.

The good news is that God in his mercy has greatly reduced my anxiety in the last couple years because I’m so overwhelmed much of the time I just have to trust in him.
 
I agree. Coronavirus is low on my list of anxiety inducing life events.
 
There have been no reported cases in my country as of yet, but several scares and alleged cases that had to be denied by hospitals. You needn’t be very worried. Wear a gauze mask if you insist, and keep a hand sanitizer on you. I do the latter, and use it at regular intervals.
 
Keep your countertops clean. It has now been learned it can be spread by contaminated surfaces.
 
I have to agree. I think we should be as concerned as we are with the flu. The flu has killed more people this year so far, so just use common sense I guess at this time. I’ll just let God worry about when it is my time to go home to Him.
 
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Keep your countertops clean. It has now been learned it can be spread by contaminated surfaces.
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When I lived with my son and daughter-in-law and 2 grandkids they were always bringing illnesses home
from work and school. I would go through the house twice a day wiping down door knobs, light switches,
faucet handles, toilet flushes and countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms.
 
Maybe the home parish will place hand sanitizer stations at all entrances. Most public buildings have them.
 
The flu has a mortality rate of about .2% where as this one, if you believe the numbers coming out of China about 2%. There are reports that many many more have died that being reported. So the mortality rate may go as high as 12 to 15%. But other than short term damage and the loss of lives, next year this will be a footnote. China needs to put an end to people catching, selling, and eating of wild animals.

Here in the US and most other countries it wont be something we really need to worry about catching.
 
Basic good hygiene practices and a strong immune system will prevent most of us from catching Corona. We’re more likely to be struck by lightning than to catch that virus, if we do the basic right things.

And that brings me to a point that too many parents miss:

While we need to take reasonable precautions to protect kids from germs, we must also give their immune systems a chance to work. By trying to protect kids from every little germ that comes along, their immune systems don’t have a chance to fight anything off. It then becomes a case of use it or lose it. One of the ways the immune system grows stronger is through use – just like our muscles, bones, organs and brain become stronger and more durable through regular use.

We aren’t doing kids any favors by constantly making them use anti-bacterial soaps when they wash, by constantly washing off and disinfecting every inch of surface they touch. First, it’s impossible to eliminate all germs no matter how hard one tries, and secondly, it just isn’t a good idea.

While we should innoculate kids against the deadlier childhood diseases, and teach them good hygiene practices, helocoptering keeps them from experiencing the normal things kids go through, and could weaken them when they should be growing tougher.

Many doctors and nurses have repeated this warning. Disinfect up to a point, but don’t overdo it. The developing immune system in a child needs to grow and strengthen, and exposure to what the human immune system was designed to be exposed to is part of that process.
 
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