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    The War Against the Virus: The Ultimate Collection of Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive During COVID-19 Pandemic
    The War Against the Virus: The Ultimate Collection of Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive During COVID-19 Pandemic
    The War Against the Virus: The Ultimate Collection of Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive During COVID-19 Pandemic
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    The War Against the Virus: The Ultimate Collection of Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive During COVID-19 Pandemic

    By Dr. Rich Murphy

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    Billions of people world-wide are struggling with this never-before-seen virus that has kept the world in lock down for the better part of the last 3 months.
    The number of infections is increasing and mortalities have started to pile up. People have become more and more uncertain of what this virus is, and how they can keep themselves and their loved ones safe.
    In this information packed guide, you can learn all of the current tips and tricks available to minimize the risks of catching COVID-19 and effectively stopping the spread of this new virus. The tips and tricks outlined in this book can be a difference between staying strong and healthy, or getting critically sick and possibly succumbing to the new coronavirus. Dr. Rich Murphy takes us on a detailed journey to understanding our new normal with COVID-19. As a long time survivalist, he brings over forty-five years of experience as an Army Officer and Engineer to his own war-- a war against a virus
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMay 9, 2020
    ISBN9781716950612

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      The War Against the Virus - Dr. Rich Murphy

      The War Against the Virus:

      The Ultimate Collection of Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      Dr. Rich Murphy

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Chapter 1: Where Did COVID-19 Come From?

      Chapter 2: Quarantines and Lockdowns

      Chapter 3: Drastic Action

      Chapter 4: Let’s Talk Disease

      How Infectious Disease Spreads

      The Spread of COVID-19

      Chapter 5: What’s a Pandemic, Anyway?

      How Deadly is It?

      Chapter 6: Bacterial and Viral Infections

      Chapter 7: Infection and Disease

      Chapter 8: Respiratory Infections

      Chapter 9: Treating a Viral Disease

      Chapter 10: Protecting Yourself from COVID-19

      Step One: Avoid Others

      Step Two: Wear A Mask

      Make Your Own Mask

      Wearing a Face Shield with Your Mask

      Step Three: Avoid Picking Up the Disease through Touch

      Avoid Touching Your Face

      Disinfect Your Hands

      When You Don’t Have a Sink Available

      Making Your Own Hand Sanitizer

      Gloves

      Chapter 11: Decontaminating Your Life

      Disinfecting Things You Bring Into Your Home

      Disinfecting with Ultraviolet Light

      What About People?

      Chapter 12: What if You Get Sick?

      Treatment for the Disease

      Chapter 13: If Things Get Really Bad

      What Do We Do Now?

      Chapter 14: If You Have to Leave Your Home

      Afterword

      Foreword

      On December 31, 2019, the Chinese government announced to the world that a new virus had surfaced. Originally just known by the name Coronavirus, this virus passed through several different names over the following months and is now most commonly known by the official name of COVID-19, a name given to it to separate it from other strains of Coronavirus that are in existence.

      While there was initial concern about the virus, it was on the other side of the world. So, it didn’t seem like anything serious until China quarantined the entire city of Wuhan and some dozen other cities in the Hubei province on January 23. That news shocked the world, as nobody had been expecting it. Yet, if the Chinese government was taking the virus that seriously, then everyone knew it had to be something serious. By then, China had already reported their first fatality, and the death count was climbing.

      Just a few days before China reported their first fatality, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States. Thanks to precautions put into effect by the federal government, a man who had returned from China tested positive for the disease in Washington State. We weren’t the only country to have cases suddenly appearing though; Japan, South Korea and Thailand also reported cases. Thanks to international air travel, this viral disease was rapidly turning from a local problem, to an international pandemic.

      International air travel continued to help the virus spread, even with the US and other countries limiting air travel, with one country after another reporting cases of COVID-19. This led to the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring a global health emergency on January 30th, not quite a month after the virus was first identified and the world informed. Six weeks later, on March the 11th, the WHO officially declares COVID-19 a pandemic.

      Although the disease started in China, the official number of cases reported there have been surprisingly low compared to the rest of the world. As of this writing, China has reported 81,807 cases of COVID-19, with only 3,331 deaths. There’s just one problem with that: Nobody believes them.

      Chapter 1: Where Did COVID-19 Come From?

      It is suspicious at the outset that this disease, like so many others, has come from China. There is a long history of strange, deadly Chinese diseases which have plagued the world going all the way back to the Black Plague, which killed 60% of Europe’s population in the 1300s.

      Apparently the reason for this is that the social upper-crust of China eats unusual animals. These animals are farmed and sold in what are known as wet markets, where the animals are brought in alive and subsequently slaughtered. The combination of blood and other bodily fluids offers ample opportunity for cross-contamination from one animal species to another. So, viruses which live in one host species without causing it any problem can be transmitted to other species, where the virus may end up mutating to survive. Eventually, some of these make the jump to humans, infecting them and bringing disease.

      This is apparently what happened with the virus that causes COVID-19, officially named SARS-CoV-2. Originating in bats, it was supposedly traced by Chinese medical personnel to bats sold at a particular wet market in Wuhan… or so goes the official story.

      But there are several conflicting theories running around about the virus. One is that the virus was developed at a Chinese level-4 bio-lab, the only one in the country, which just happens to be down the street from the wet market. If true, this raises the question of whether the virus was released accidentally or whether this was a particularly malicious biological warfare attack by the Chinese government, intended to be the opening move of them taking over the world.

      The Chinese are pushing the story that the disease was American in manufacture, brought to China by the US Army and released in Wuhan. Were that true,

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