Facebook coronavirus posts

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This is doing the rounds on my news feed.
"If 90% of us stay at home, the virus will disappear within 4 weeks."
Have any scientists actually stated this anywhere ?
I don't think a virus can just 'disappear', it's not a magic trick.
How on earth could we eradicate the virus so quickly ? A vaccine may not even be here by this year.
I think things like this spread false information and hope.

It's to do with bringing the infection rate down to less than 1 person, then it dies out.

How can it die out? It will still run riot among key workers and similar. And it will be sloshing around in the developing and middle-income world where much of the population has absolutely no option of locking down---they cannot work from home, they do not have a laptop, they either work or they go hungry. The virus will still keep leaking back into the country, as they are finding in China and elsewhere!

The only endgames are, vaccine, natural herd immunity, or (most likely) a mixture of both where the virus slows as more people become immune and then a vaccine is used to finish everything off and immune those who cannot risk catching the disease itself.

Stop getting your information from Facebook memes

I saw this, asked for their source but didn't get a reply 🤷🏻‍♀️

99% of posts on fb I've seen have been utter bullshit, some quite convincing but even then a cursory check shows they are, in fact, crap.

The ones about if you drink every 15 minutes it washed the virus into the stomach so you don't get ill and have hot drinks because the heat kills viruses, never have ice because it makes the virus stronger.... so many people i know have shared this and all have acted like I was insane for directing them to factual information.

Or the one about if you can hold your breath for 10 seconds you don't have CV. This stuff isn't just factually incorrect it's dangerous!

I think one of the important things in all of this is to be very careful where you get your news from.

I've seen that one on my Facebook a lot today OP.
The bit that worries me is that it goes on to say only 50% are sticking to the rules. The implication of that is people who are sharing it are generally now screaming for a full lockdown. Also, I have a friend who is really suffering with her mental health at the minute.
She uses Facebook to try and connect with people she cant see irl, but instead she faces this kind of stuff and other scaremongering fake news.
I love her dearly and I try and lift her spirits and supported her but she is so swamped in this stuff now I'm struggling to be of much help.
The dickheads who share this shit have no idea the effect it has on others wellbeing. I report them to Facebook as fake news.

I saw that, it looked like it was stuck on a shelf in a co-op shop. The other annoying one is the If you had to say who you had had contact with in the last 10 days would you be proud or embarrassed. Well neither, especially as I am not sure where the cut off is, and pride is a weird way to think about who you see.

Yeah it's a good idea to report it.
And i'm not 'getting my information from Facebook memes' i'm pointing out that false information is being spread.
It states that "If 70% stay at home, our lives will never be the same again."
Which is an absolutely ridiculous thing to post and indeed damaging to the mental health of some.

Very true though, people should be careful where they get their news from.

It would die, if it can’t spread. I wish we could actually, properly stay home.

Well if we all stayed home it probably would die, along with pretty much the whole population. (No healthcare, food, essential services)