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[OxQQme]

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[TwilightZone]

1. It's not from Johns Hopkins and includes false information.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/johns-hopkins-covid-summary/

This is Johns Hopkins' COVID Info: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus/index.html

Edit: I would suggest that you self-delete this thread.

[RockRaven]

2. Lots of errors, definitely not really from Johns Hopkins...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Disinfecting is fine, but this virus is transmitted primarily through the air,

by droplets or aerosols, not by contact with surfaces. If you're not wearing a mask, not maintaining social distancing, and spending time indoors in close contact with other people, especially in poorly-ventilated rooms, all the hand-washing and disinfecting of surfaces isn't going to keep you from getting covid. Some other diseases are transmitted via contaminated surfaces so you probably won't get those diseases, but covid is a different thing. Wash your hands and all that, but mostly stay away from people who are breathing.

[Mariana]

4. Who actually sent that to you? I doubt it came directly from Johns Hopkins. nt.

[relayerbob]

5. This is a fake email per Johns Hopkins

It has been going around for months. Some of the worst of the info in the earlier notes has been removed, but it is NOT from them. (For example "foam" doesn't do anything to a virus, it's the saponification of the proteins that breaks down the molecular bonds that is doing the work. "Foam" has nothing to do with it.)

Please delete.

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/04/03/coronavirus-misinformation-rumors-social-media/

[Arne]

6. Ultimate irony

This is very similar to the origin of life on Earth.


Or else Panspermia

[Cirque du So-What]

7. I strongly recommend self-deleting this thread

It is rife with disinformation; god knows why it was concocted. Russian trolls?

[coti]

8. Wish I hadn't read this. Delete it. nt

[Hekate]

9. Please self-delete. You were spammed.

[frazzled]

10. False, misleading. More documentation

In addition to Johns Hopkins disavowing it. Read whole fact checking For each point at link

The virus converts cells into aggressors and multipliers

Claim: “The virus is not a living organism, but a protein molecule (DNA) covered by a protective layer of lipid (fat), which, when absorbed by the cells of the ocular, nasal or buccal mucosa, changes their genetic code. (mutation) and convert them into aggressor and multiplier cells.”

Several parts of this description are false, experts say.
“The coronavirus arrives as an RNA molecule that comes wrapped in lipid and protein -- the first point is complete nonsense as written,” Dr. Benjamin Neuman, an expert in coronaviruses who chairs the Biological Sciences department at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, told AFP by email.
“There are no aggressor or multiplier cells -- not sure what that might even be referring to,” he said.
Dr. Julian Leibowitz, an expert in coronaviruses who is a professor of microbial pathogenesis and immunology at Texas A&M's College of Medicine, agreed.

https://factcheck.afp.com/misleading-coronavirus-information-falsely-attributed-johns-hopkins

[mopinko]

11. always be suspicious of stuff proported to be from hopkins. spammers love them.

and yeah. please take this crap down.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. As Others Have Said, It's Fishy

The entire part about hand washing is wrong. The entire part.
The mechanism is wrong, and the most important part of hand washing is to WASH THE VIRUS DOWN THE DRAIN!
Destroying a few in the process is a fine benefit.
And the denaturation descriptions are very unscientific. Johns-Hopkins didn't issue this.

[paleotn]

13. They're a bit more than a molecule.....

but not a whole lot more. Simple, quasi life forms. Quasi because they're a life form depending on how you look at them. They replicate and mutate, sure, but that's about where the life form part ends. Somewhere between life and not life. Only a tiny fraction are pathogenic. Much of life on earth depends on them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. This thread should be locked.

[tymorial]

15. Lol. Really?

You cannot possibly believe this.