I thought you cancelled your classes? Or is this a different University?
Canada. They denied my application and said ‘low GPA’ but my GPA is well over the competitive average.
I cancelled my application for the spring term, and then I reapplied for the fall term. I’ve been denied for the fall term, too.
This virus makes me really scared. So, non-medic fool that I am I tried to think of a cure.
It came originally from Bats, like SARS and Ebola. There are a lot of bats. They are the most populous mammal and they fly of course so they can spread their pathogens. It is not their fault but thinking about bats made me come up with a couple of ideas that I will use on myself perhaps, though I am not a medic or related to medicine in anyway.
- Bats have a weak immune system. This is another reason why there are a lot of viruses from bats. They have a weak immune system because they don’t want to turn their immune system on their own damaged cells since they damage themselves quite a lot by the tremendous exertion they perform in flight. Instead of the usual use of a lot of macrophages, or whatever, to attack broken or foreign cells, they use heat to kill pathogens because when they fly they get very hot to about 41 Celsius or nearly 106 Fahrenheit. There is a “flight as fever” hypothesis that suggests that bats use this high temperature that they get to while flying instead of an immune system. There is some contrary evidence (some types of bat viruses are not killed by heat) but the theory does explain why bats are not killed by the viruses that kill despite their low-key immune system.
Hence, idea 1 – thermotherapy: it might help to heat yourself up. This is an ancient type of therapy. The Japanese have been into it forever. The ancient Romans and everyone who was into hot baths spoke of them as cures but these days we generally take “anti-pyretics” drugs such as ibuprofen to reduce our temperature when it gets above 38 or so. Actually I did not get this idea from bats but rather from looking at the ways in which people attempted to cure the flu of 1918. More than one naturalist said get patients to sit in a foot bath while cooling the infected parts. Foot baths are being used in Wuhan as preventative traditional medicine and my town here in Yamaguchi is big on foot baths, with their being several public foot baths using natural hot spring water. At first I thought it a silly idea but then raising ones temperature while chilling the infected areas might be a good idea. The 1918 flu was a swine flu and resulted in fever. Pigs have a normal body temperature of 38 and fever of 40. The current virus tends to result in a low level of fever in humans, and perhaps also in bats, but as mentioned above, bats as mentioned above raise their body temperature to 41 Celsius when they fly. If you get the corona virus, raising your body temperature may be very bad for you. It may kill you for all I know. But if I can’t get to a doctor, I think I will try sleeping with some sort of heat pad to raise my temperature. But why not a foot bath? That brings me to idea number 2. This is my idea so it is probably completely batty.
- Bats live upside down. Bats live upside down so when they get viral infections of the lungs they may not need to cough. I search YouTube for a videos of a bats coughing. I could not find one. There are videos of snakes coughing but no bats. The only video I could find is of a bat being scared of a human coughing. Perhaps bats find coughing so weird that they associated it with bat predators like monkeys. I asked some of the video producers – bat carers-- and they said, “yeah…bats clear their throats but they don’t seem to cough, not fruit bats anyway”. So I figure, though I am in NO way an expert on bats either, that when bats get a virus, they don’t cough up the mucus, but rely on gravity to let it fall out. And on the part of the virus, it does not need to make bats (or humans) cough to ensure that it is spread, because it will fall out of the mouths of bats who sleep huddling together. And, this current virus tends (though not all) to be characterised by a dry cough, or even almost no cough at all, just having your lungs fill up with fluid. So, to get rid of it, if I get this disease, I am thinking I will try sleeping a bit like a bat – with my lungs higher than my mouth. Perhaps I will just put some pillows under my pelvis, or perhaps I will try sloping my bed. This position, the “Trendelenburg position” was used in operations and nursing in the past but fell out of favour. A head down position is bad for people who have head wounds (due to increased bleeding from head), eye pathologies (due to higher eyeball pressure) and people who are overweight (their organs fall on their diaphragm) but other research suggests that a head lower position can help to clear mucus from the lungs in some situations. Maybe it is bad for you or can kill you if you get this virus, but I am going to try sleeping in bat pose, with an electric blanked on my feet, if I can’t get to a hospital. (It takes quite a long time to cure. Hospitals may get clogged up.)
And so, even if useless, or bad for me, rather than wait for my lungs to fill up, I can try the above. This made me feel a bit better.
But that is not really why I am scared. I am scared it is all part of a big plot or worse. I note that this virus encourages people, everybody, to look at or pay attention to their hands because the main route of transmission is getting other people’s cough, sneeze etc on your hands and then wiping your own face. It is important to avoid touching our face – eyes nose and mouth. I have a thing about hands. C.f. pans on hands.
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Raising your temperature actually helps for your immune system some people see in summer corona virus spread would be weaken.
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@laetitia I have some Asian female friends and definitely don’t hate you or any Asians. I am trying to manage my Coronavirus paranoia but it is hard and I have had a few moments. Feel better and good health to you!
Thanks! Good health to you, too! We have 5000 people infected now so needless to say that Koreans are paranoid also!
I see its just hit South Africa.
Good thing you have a mask( in your pic)
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UK has given up on containment and is now in the delaying the spread of the illness phase.
I didn’t really take this virus Serious before. But Costco bottled water is completely wiped out and the priced got raised in my town.
It’s spreading on the East coast here in the states.
I’m cancelling my appointments with doctors that I don’t need to go see.
I’m not risking my life for anyone.
I’m also going to do my grocery shopping on line more.
Yes, I’m paranoid.
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It’s all I’m thinking about. 
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Me too @everhopeful, me too…
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I don’t think we should panic.
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There are now 4 cases in the west of Ireland where I’m from. I’m only worried for my sister and mother. My mum has COPD and my sister has a hole in her heart and is on oxygen
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Children are not contracting the coronavirus (to my knowledge), so that’s good news. Maybe that can help scientists in developing a vaccine.
Don’t panic. When we panic we can’t think, and we need to think.
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I’m also worried for my Father.
He is 86 years old and has a blood disorder.
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I like how cautious everyone is about the coronavirus but are in a rush to meet new people & date
We are probably going to cancel our cleaning service.
I don’t want strangers entering my house.