{"id":82361,"date":"2020-02-06T03:22:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=82361"},"modified":"2020-02-06T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:27:47","slug":"what-to-do-about-the-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=82361","title":{"rendered":"What to do about the coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parasuram das: Death toll in China rises to 563 as lockdown enters second week.<\/p>\n

The death toll and number of infections continued to soar in China,
\nofficials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

It has been two weeks since the authorities in Wuhan, the epicenter of the
\ncoronavirus outbreak, declared that the city would be locked down as they
\ntried to contain the virus\u2019s spread. The cordon that was first imposed
\naround the city of 11 million quickly expanded to encircle roughly 50
\nmillion people in the province of Hubei.<\/p>\n

The lockdown is unprecedented in scale.<\/p>\n

Health officials said that 563 people had died from the virus, up from
\nnearly 500 people the day before, and that 28,018 cases had been confirmed.
\nOn Monday, the number of confirmed cases was put at 20,438, meaning the
\nnumber increased more than 35 percent in just a few days.<\/p>\n

Many doctors believe that the number of deaths and infections are
\nundercounted because hospitals and laboratories are under severe strain to
\ntest for the virus.
\nThose uinfected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood
\nwholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city, which also sold live
\nand newly slaughtered animals.<\/p>\n

Lord Krishna gives the solution in Bhagavad Gita:<\/p>\n

Chapter 17: The Divisions of Faith
\nTEXT 8-10
\nayuh-sattva-balarogya-
\nsukha-priti-vivardhanah
\nrasyah snigdhah sthira hrdya
\naharah sattvika-priyah
\nkatv-amla-lavanaty-usna-
\ntiksna-ruksa-vidahinah
\nahara rajasasyesta
\nduhkha-sokamaya-pradah
\nyata-yamam gata-rasam
\nputi paryusitam ca yat
\nucchistam api camedhyam
\nbhojanam tamasa-priyam
\n
\nSYNONYMS
\n
\nayuh\u2014duration of life; sattva\u2014existence; bala\u2014strength; arogya\u2014health; sukha
\n\u2014happiness; priti\u2014and satisfaction; vivardhanah\u2014increasing; rasyah\u2014juicy;
\nsnigdhah\u2014fatty; sthirah\u2014enduring; hrdyah\u2014pleasing to the heart; aharah
\n\u2014food; sattvika\u2014to one in goodness; priyah\u2014palatable.
\n
\nTRANSLATION
\n
\nFoods in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s
\nexistence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such
\nnourishing foods are sweet, juicy, fattening and palatable. Foods that are
\ntoo bitter, too sour, salty, pungent, dry and hot, are liked by people in
\nthe modes of passion. Such foods cause pain, distress, and disease. Food
\ncooked more than three hours before being eaten, which is tasteless, stale,
\nputrid, decomposed and unclean, is food liked by people in the mode of
\nignorance.<\/p>\n

Purport:
\nTherefore to make food antiseptic, eatable and palatable for all persons,
\none should offer food to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.<\/p>\n

My two cents:
\nWe could offer all our satvic food to Lord Krishna, eat delicious Prasad
\nand leave the poor bats and animals alone.
\nAnd start to realise that we are all eternal spirit souls, with a direct
\nconnect to Lord Krishna.
\n\"\"
\nhttps:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=EaRUeKnebG4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Therefore to make food antiseptic, eatable and palatable for all persons, one should offer food to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82363,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82361\/revisions\/82363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}