MD Talk: Virus Habits & History

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Dr. Tim McFarland, board certified in Family Medicine offers his views on the 2020 Covid 19 virus pandemic. Today’s discussion, MD Talk: Virus Habits and History explains several ideas influenced by his knowledge from thirty plus years of medical practice experience in his own clinic and current work as an ER physician and hospitalist. Discussion topics include:

1.            The differences between bacteria and viruses in structure and treatment.

2.            Existing viruses and virus impacts from recent history.

3.            Viruses as a cause of flus and colds

4.            Vaccines

5.            Super outbreaks, virus jumps, mutations, antigenic shift, reassortment of virus

6.            How contagious rate and the death rate impact public risk.

7.            Virus testing theories

8.            Assumptions and contradictions related to pandemic treatment

9.            Why is there a toilet paper shortage?

10.         What does my faith have to do with this?

MD Talk: Virus Habits and History is one of three sessions regarding this unexpected virus season with Covid 19. The next podcast session, MD Talk: Virus Combat, will elaborate on strategies used to fight virus impact on our bodies. After that, in our final session on Covid 19, we will highlight mental health. Our plan is to incorporate several guests in these discussions. From then on, we hope to divert to non Covid 19 topics.

Oh yah. There’s one more thing. Toilet paper hoarding. Why is it happening?

Here’s ONE of the answers we found that explains why people are hoarding toilet paper. It seems this is not a new activity. Our sources say that in the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 panicked citizens swamped stores and pharmacies to hoard goods. One answer brought by psychologists is this. In times of imminent danger, whether natural such as a hurricane or snowstorm or something like Covid 19, people panic buy. Why? BECAUSE it gives them a sense that they are doing something to take precautions and address the risk when they have little else they can do.

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