Advice from Spain

[Note: BBC best advice is to keep washing hands.]

1. Drink lots of hot liquid - coffees, teas, soups, warm water - take a sip of warm water every 20 minutes, keep mouth moist and washes away any virus that may have entered your mouth into your stomach where gastric juices neutralize virus.

2. Gargle with an antiseptic in warm water (like vinegar, salt, lemon) every day if possible.

3. The virus attaches itself to hair and clothes, any detergent or soap kills it, but you must take a bath or shower when you get in, avoid sitting down anywhere but go straight to bathroom; if you cannot wash clothes daily, hang them in direct sunlight which also neutralizes the virus;

4. Wash metallic surfaces very carefully because the virus can remain viable on these for up to 9 days, taken not and be vigilant about touching hand-rails, door handles etc... keep clean and wipe down regularly;

5. Don't smoke

6. Wash your hands every 20 minutes using any soap that foams, do this for 20 seconds, and wash hands thoroughly;

7. Eat fruit and vegetables, try to elevate your zinc levels not just vitamin C levels;

8. Animals do not spread the virus to people; it is person to person transmission;

9. Try to avoid getting the common flu, because this I guess already weakens your system; and try to avoid eating and drinking cold things;

10. If you feel any discomfort in your throat or a sore throat coming on, attack it immediately using the above methods; the virus enters this way and stays in throat 3 or 4 days before passing into the lungs.

Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, ..

There is a popular mantra which goes:

'Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy'.

But I think God says greed is always a sin.  Greed is taking more than you need.  In the 'Our Father' it says to pray: 'Give us each day our daily bread'.  God's people rely on God's grace for their daily bread just as the birds do. 

Jesus said "Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will ear.  Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" - Matthew 6:25-26

'Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions' - Luke 12:15

Wise men

It was wise men that came from the east to worship Jesus at his birth, but the ruler of the day, Herod, and the people of Jerusalem (the Jews) were troubled by his birth (Matthew 2: 3).

Why?

I guess they were more interested in money and power, and not interested in anything that could challenge this.

Wise men worship Jesus

Bhagavad Gita

"When thy mind leaves behind its dark forest of delusion, thou shalt go beyond the scriptures of times past and still to come

When they mind, that may be wavering in the contradictions of many scriptures, shall rest unshaken in divine contemplation, then the goal of Yoga is thine."

Gita 2:52-53

God blesses unity

"How good and pleasant it is
    when God’s people live together in unity!

 It is like precious oil poured on the head,
    running down on the beard,
running down on Aaron’s beard,
    down on the collar of his robe.

It is as if the dew of Hermon
    were falling on Mount Zion.
For there the Lord bestows his blessing,    even life forevermore." - Psalm 133