16.02.2020 International Business Times Advertising offers unique antidote for COVID19!

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Sunday 16th 49-51F!! Very dark overcast, rain and gales [again.] Storm Dennis is supposed to produce strong winds only a week after Ciara. Exactly the same as last week. The wind is blowing from the south. Not the SW claimed by the weather services.

I decided to walk the opposite way today. Only to be exposed to the gales without a single twig of hedge for protection. It started raining but then grew bored and stopped. So I plodded on down the main road trying to avoid the motoring ignoramuses. The sky seemed to be broken into strips  of dark and not so dark, grey. I was buffeted at one moment and then spared so much as a breeze, the next. Only half an hour of "enjoying" nature. Tomorrow's forecast looks much the same. With gusts to 22m/s or 45mph.

Don't you just love these advertising bureaus masquerading as news channels? International Business Times Advertising Bureau claims the only known antidote to COVID19 coronavirus:

 Protect Yourself From The Deadly Coronavirus By Doing These Four Things

BUT! Open the link and the advertising bureau's screen is blocked with demands to allow all kinds of shit to be foisted onto your computer in exchange for saving you from the pandemic. Which part of "respect" don't they understand?

Is this snake oil salesmanship at its worst? Is this even legal? Claiming to protect people from the pandemic but only in exchange for intruding on their computers? Does International Business Times offer the only known cure for COVID19? Does it have the world's greatest viral experts onboard?

Or do they just want to go viral? To make more money in a fiercely competitive advertising market supersaturated with downright lies and falsehoods?

An online search will provide free advice from real health agencies and national health services without demanding their pound of flesh. The gist is as follows:

Wash your hands regularly and properly with soap and water.
Patented "Kills 99% of pandemic viruses" hand washes are not superior.

Hand washing is also sound advice for medical "professionals" like nurses.
Who often can't be arsed to wash their hands after a visit to the toilet.

Wash your own hands carefully after a toilet visit and before eating.
Keep your unwashed hands away from your face.
Avoid contact with people who are ill.

You don't need to wear a mask unless YOU are ill.
A mask is only to protect others from your flying bugs.
Most masks will not prevent you from catching the virus.

Cover your face if you are going to cough or sneeze.
Use an elbow wrapped around your face in an emergency.
Put soiled tissues straight into the rubbish.
Don't recycle them through your pockets.

Cook foods properly.
Keep food preparation surfaces clean.

Meanwhile, Gligolo speinkling chukker still doesn't recognise "coronavirus!" There I am suffering from flu-like symptoms and I'm worried about the pandemic. So I type the word "coronavirus" onto my blog page and Grudgile doesn't even recognise it! I typed the link above and Grabgile still has "coronavirus" underlined in red! It is offering "coronations" in exchange for more overdoses of advertising. What has very doubtful, hereditary entitlement, to live like a multi-billionaire at taxpayer's expense, have to do with a pandemic?

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