Americans have never been so aware of how much they touch their faces.
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Since the outbreak of Covid-19, health care professionals are urging people to regularly refrain from touching their face, and yet at the time they are saying this, sometimes while still on camera, they habitually touch their own face. It’s a reflexive, unconscious habit of which everyone is guilty.
People have a very hard time not touching their faces. According to STAT, a study by the American Journal of Infection Control showed that people touch their faces more than 20 times an hour on average. About 44% of the time, it involves contact with the eyes, nose or mouth — pathways to your throat and lungs.
The coronavirus and other illnesses are believed to be spread mostly by inhaling droplets released when an infected individual coughs or sneezes. And many times, those droplets land on surfaces that we touch with our hands.
According to bioweapons expert Francis Boyle, evidence suggests COVID-19 is a weaponized coronavirus originating from the Biosafety Level 4 facility in Wuhan City, China. COVID-19 appears to be a chimera consisting of SARS (an already weaponized coronavirus), HIV genetic material and influenza virus, designed with gain of function properties that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal.
The coronavirus can travel 6 to 7 feet through the air, and some reports suggest the virus can shed that distance from contaminated human feces as well. Others have suggested COVID-19 may involve Prevotella, a bacterium known to cause respiratory tract infections, including pneumonia, and that this may explain some of the observed symptoms and how it can spread through feces.
There's still a lot we don't know about COVID-19, and if it did escape from Wuhan City's BSL-4 facility, they're not giving out any details about it that might help health care workers figure out an effective treatment plan.
Ways to protect yourself from this virus include:
- Strengthen your immune system with nutrients
- Wash your hands frequently
- Try pre-, pro- and sporebiotics
- Use quercetin
Speaking of strengthening the immune system, you may have noticed a lot of buzz in the news lately about the immune-boosting benefits of resveratrol, which does just that. This phytonutrient is cardioprotective with antioxidant, antiaging and chemopreventive properties.
Resveratrol is also being studied for treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke, vascular dementia, depression and brain inflammation. In addition, resveratrol's immune-boosting properties may prove beneficial for use in obesity, Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. In animal studies, it prevented the progression of melanoma, breast cancer and lung metastasis.
This super immune booster is naturally found in grapes, wine, peanuts, cocoa and many berry species including blueberries, bilberries, cranberries and ligonberries.
Supplements thought to be useful in the prevention of coronavirus infection include NAC, elderberry, spirulina, beta-glucan, glucosamine, selenium, zinc, lipoic acid, sulforaphane, resveratrol, vitamin D, Bifidobacterium bifidum strain probiotics and sporebiotics.
Vitamin C treatment is one avenue that is currently under investigation, and wearing medical-grade face masks is the route many have taken to avoid infection, but the most important step you can take right now is to strengthen your immune system.
And, try not to touch your face.