coronavirus 2019 2020 is it really serious or is it all hype today we're
going to talk about what you can do to protect yourself and of course we're
going to cover some things that don't get mentioned in the regular channels
coming right up
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anything as you probably heard there's an outbreak of a virus called corona
virus it started in Wuhan China and that's where most of the cases have been
so far but it's already spread to a number of countries including the United
States so there's tens of thousands of cases in China and there's a handful in
the United States and this particular corona virus is called 2019 and CoV so
coronaviruses it's a group of viruses there are many different strains of them
and some of them are not so harmful a lot of common infections that we have
are actually corona viruses most people have these infections many times during
their lifetime but recently there have been some more serious forms of mutated
corona viruses so typically viruses are specific to a species so viruses that
affect humans usually don't affect cats and dogs and vice versa so a lot of
these corona viruses live in animals and they don't pose a threat to humans
unless they mutate until they change their shape so that they have some
receptors some tags that fit into our receptor sites and now they become a
threat so in this particular case they believe that it started in a bat and
that it's possible that it was a single case of a bat that had mutated virus
that was transferred to a human and started spreading that way so a lot of
times these can be bred from animals to humans if these
viruses are mutated but then once they're mutated they can also spread
from human to human which is what's happening with this virus now and here's
what's really concerning they believe that you are mostly at risk of spreading
the virus when you have the most symptoms and when you have a high fever
and you're coughing and sniffling and sneezing you're also the most contagious
but there is also a possibility or probability that asymptomatic people may
spread this they've had some reports they don't know for sure but there are
some reports on people spreading this who are asymptomatic so this is a very
serious situation the World Health Organization has declared it a health
emergency and in the United States they have evacuated about 200 people from
Wuhan China and they placed them in quarantine for testing until they no
more and was so scary about this is that we know so little we're dealing with
something unknown and that's where they want to be using all the precaution they
can so that this doesn't get out of hand if we can contain it
early then there may not be a big deal but if it gets out of hand it could be a
worldwide pandemic which of course nobody wants but we still have to put
this in a little bit of perspective and we need to understand a few more things
we don't want to just panic and read all the scary facts and go crazy with it
there were a couple of previous coronaviruses one was called MERS and it
was very very virulent it was 30 percent fatal but they only had about 2,500
cases so there were about 800 people dead from the MERS virus and there was a
SARS virus which was 10 percent fatal and there were a few more cases 8,000
and resulted about the same amount of dead people now this new corona virus
2019 nco so far is about 2% fatal so out of
14,000 cases in China they're about 3% debt and all but one of those I believe
were in China so this is very frightening it is very scary if this
would get out of hand it could be terrible but we also need to remember
how things work in the big scheme of things so there's something called a
seasonal flu that's the flu the influenza that you get vaccines for and
and that is a nuisance every year we're in flu season right now with a winter so
in the US every year there's about thirty to sixty thousand people who die
every year in the United States from the seasonal flu and we don't get so scared
about it because it's sort of the same thing over and over we don't believe
that it's going to get totally out of hand and in world worldwide if we look
globally then there's 300,000 to 600,000 dead people every year so the regular
stuff that the hundreds of thousands that we have every year of course they
dwarf these numbers but it's the fact of the uncertainty and the potential of a
pandemic that we want to be very cautious with so I'm not going to list a
bunch of things that you can read up for yourself for many reasons first you can
read it yourself secondly they're changing all the time okay this is
changing every day and the CDC and the National Institute of Health and the
World Health Organisation's those are the three organizations that
you want to get your facts from they're updating this on their websites on a
daily basis so you can see what they're learning you can see what's happening
and you can get the correct information from those sources so I'm not going to
speculate I'm not gonna talk about a bunch of things that they have already
said but here's what we want to real briefly understand that there's three
steps to what you can do and one of course first is don't get it and you
want to avoid travel if you want to avoid any non-essential
travel because anytime that you go into airports you're going to planes you're
going to closed spaces you expose yourself to a lot of different people
then you increase the chances dramatically exponentially you want to
avoid travel you want to avoid any kind of crowd if you can help it and you want
to avoid sick people if they're already coughing and sneezing then stay away and
they believe this spreads with droplets with particle droplets so if somebody
sneezes there's usually like a six foot range where those droplets spread and
then what's also important about this virus is that it can live it can land on
a surface and you can stay it's not really alive because it's a virus but it
can stay active and virulent for several days so that's why you want to avoid
surfaces where high-traffic areas you want to be cautious about public places
with handles and things door handles but keep in mind you want to be cautious but
you don't want to freak out there's still in a very very very small chance
there's six cases so far confirmed in the United States and hopefully the
number won't go up much so the risk is very very small but do what you can just
be cautious anyway the next thing you can do is you wipe surfaces and you've
wash your hands frequently and you want to use warm water and soap okay hand
sanitizers you use them if you if you want to if they're available but they
don't do all that much because they primarily designed for bacteria they're
called antibacterial sanitizers they may or may not do anything for a virus so
wash your hands frequently warm soap and water the second thing is don't spread
it okay don't get it don't spread it so even if you feel like
you're really strong you don't have a whole lot to worry about you want to
keep in mind that it the very young and the very old and the
weak the immunocompromised who always perish from these epidemics from these
infections so do all the same things that you would avoid to get it do those
as a courtesy to other people to prevent from spreading it obviously and now
number three and this is what nobody else talks about nowhere in where I read
up I watched some videos I did some research I check the website nobody
talked about this up regulate your immune system there may be some random
chance and some bad luck in contracting and being exposed to the virus but how
well you fare how well you deal how well your body deals with the virus is not
random chance okay we want to think about these things the worst of these
viruses was 30 percent fatal that's devastating it's horrendous but 70
percent of people made it through so which ones were the people who made it
through they were the people with the strongest immune system ten percent
fatal 90 percent survivability COV two percent fatal 98 percent survivability
okay so with the seasonal flu who are the people who die from the flu every
year it's the very young and the very old and the immunocompromised the people
who are weak for some reason so if you are malnourished and if you're sick
already any virus can be a deadly threat and here's something else that I found
very very interesting that with the seasonal flu there's thirty to sixty
thousand dead people in the US every year that's ten percent of all the
casualties in the world yet the US only has five percent of the world's
population so the death rate from the seasonal flu is twice as high in the US
as it is anywhere in the world how come
have the best and the most expensive health care supposedly it's for sure the
most expensive it's supposedly the best and we have the highest rate of
vaccinations against that seasonal flu and yet we have twice the death rate so
I believe this is my humble opinion I think it is because the United States
has the worst nutritional status of any country in the world we have the most
stress and the worst nutrition so other than just being generally smart and
don't getting it and don't spreading it just protecting yourself with some
common sense the next thing that you can do is to get healthy give your body the
best nutritional chance give it the best possible defense system and the best
healing abilities that you can give it all right so first thing you want to
stop is sugar because sugar will down regulate your immune system it will feed
all the pathogens not necessarily virus but it will feed all the other pathogens
that assist the viruses that compete with the viruses so the more the immune
burden is on your system the more the opportunity the better the opportunity
for the virus to make you sick you want to stop processed foods because again it
has tons of sugar but it also has lots of chemicals that places another burden
on your immune system and it has virtually no nutrition it doesn't have
anything that your body is really looking for except a few calories in the
moment and then you want to avoid stress and we've done several videos on this
channel talking about this that your nervous system has something called the
autonomic nervous system you can have stress and being fight/flight or you can
relax and be in feed breed or in healing mode all right you dramatically improve
your immune system when you are relaxed you dramatically
reduce your immune system when you're stressed so learn how to do some
breathing exercises check out some videos on that do a meditation meditate
twice a day until they've got this crisis figured out it's really kind of
sad that they sell out of all those mouth guards and all these protective
masks but I bet you anything that they have not reduced the sales of soda and
candy and sugar and fast food all right so people are so concerned they want to
protect themselves they want to know what to do but before you go buy a face
mask stop eating sugar so I'm not saying the face mask is a bad thing but it is a
small part compared to what you can do for yourself in taking care of yourself
so here's another problem if you're watching this channel then I'm kind of
preaching to the choir you already know most of this stuff because you've
watched some videos before but there's a lot of people out there who have no idea
that you can actually do something for yourself so if you've never shared a
video before then please take this one and send it out to as many people as you
can share the link send it out so that they can start understanding what's
really at stake and what how much power they have for themselves to do something
about up regulating their immune system and most importantly don't panic because
panic is a form of stress it will down regulate your immune system so stay calm
stay positive and do the things you can don't listen to the gossip don't listen
to the fear mongers listen to get your information from the reputable sources
who can be professional and unbiased about it get some good information do
the things that you can and you'll be all right if you enjoyed this video make
sure that you also check out that one thank you so much for watching and I'll
see you in the next video