People had better get some masks and make other minimal precautions.
I dont believe that masks will help. It depends on how strong the virus is. You can get it by touching things like in public restrooms etc-I.E. door handles and sink handles. You can be as clean as you can be and all it takes is for another jerk to spread it onto everything he/she touches and walla! You got it.
Actually, a sad fact is if you get it you wont ever get it again. GD viruses mutate like hell.
My sister was a RN/head nurse in an intensive care unit and she will not let any of us take antibiodics for any bad cold or flu. That is unless it gets to something worse.
Use paper products to whipe your nose and whipe your hands and discard the dam things after you use them once. She says to treat it like pink eye..never use wash clothes for washing your hands and shower and wash the towels after each use. Thats how viruses like to really spread in the home, by the multiple use of towels etc. One thing that gets me is when your in a close place and someone has a child that has a runny nose and the kids is coughing and sneezing all over without someone covering his/her nose/mouth. Those germs are splashing all over...on the furniture and all over.
Hows a person to avoid it?