Thread by @dani_akash_

The news is filled with information on what you should do to protect yourself from COVID-19.

But I'd like to write a little more regarding this whole "new virus" thing -

Corona Virus might technically be just a sneak peak into the dark age we are slowly getting ourselves into...

COVID-19 is basically a common strand of Corona virus that mutated into a more powerful version cuz animals that belong to different ecosystems came into contact

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Chinese wet markets provided the best platform for such an encounter. The Chinese govt has now banned the wet markets but the threat isn't over just yet...

businessinsider.in/science/news/c…

As we are fighting the COVID-19 crisis there are human settlements that are spilling into forests. This means we have more chances of coming into contact with species of a new ecosystem

india.mongabay.com/2020/02/spillo…

We are constantly increasing the risks for a new pandemic outbreak but our medical industry is too profit driven that it turns out many of the precautionary measures and vaccine research are considered costly and are just being shelved

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Fighting new viruses is just one part of the problem, but we have a whole bunch of existing viruses that are growing immune to existing treatments. Slowly getting stronger while we are not paying attention...

instagram.com/tv/B9FPCEQFPyR…

That's the existing viruses what about prehistoric ones? Yeah the ones that are frozen in the Antarctic and are slowly getting released into the oceans thanks to climate change

bbc.com/earth/story/20…

Trust me bacteria made life possible on Earth and they can take it away too!

COVID-19 is no joke.

I'm getting chills just hearing it reached Tamil Nadu.

But what about the upcoming crisis?

I'll be putting in more effort on identifying the solutions that are in place on a separate new thread

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