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Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic was much more aggressive in countries that refused to carry out non-pharmacological measures to contain the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 (or new coronavirus). And thanks to texts like the one we are going to talk about Today, the thought that “we can do almost anything” and not get the disease if spread. A message is being attributed to the Portuguese Minister of Health. Accordingly with the message (which in the latest version was even turned into a video), Marta Temido would have listed 17 tips for “living with the coronavirus”. Read the text circulating online: > ## Check out the denial on video: > > ## _Finally something practical and honest! Minister of Health of Portugal Marta Temido deliver reality. 1. We may have to live with COVID 19 for months or years. Let's not deny or panic. Let's not make our lives useless. Let's learn to live with this fact. 2. You cannot destroy the COVID19 viruses that penetrated cell walls by drinking gallons of water hot – you just go to the bathroom more often. 3. Washing your hands is the best method for your protection. 4. If you do not have a COVID19 patient in home, there is no need to disinfect surfaces in your home. 5. Loads packaging, gas pumps, shopping carts and ATMs do not cause infection. Wash your hands, live your life as usual._ _6\. COVID19 is not a food infection. It is associated with infection drops like the flu. There is no demonstrated risk of COVID19 being transmitted by foods. 7. You can lose your sense of smell with many allergies and viral infections. This is just a non-specific symptom of COVID19. 8. Once At home, you don't need to urgently change clothes and take a shower! Purity is a virtue, paranoia is not! 9. The COVID19 virus is not airborne. This is a droplet respiratory infection that requires close contact. 10. The air is clean, you can walk through the gardens, through the parks, just avoid agglomerations._ _11\. It is enough to use normal soap against COVID19, not antibacterial soap. This is a virus, not a bacteria. 12. You don't have to worry about your food orders. But you can heat everything in the microwave if you wish. 13. The chances of bringing COVID19 home on your shoes are like getting hit by lightning twice a day. I have been working against viruses for 20 years – the gout infections don't spread like that! 14. You cannot be protected against the virus by drinking vinegar, cane juice and ginger! These are for immunity, not for healing. 15. Wearing a mask for long periods interferes in breathing and oxygen levels. Only use it in crowds._ _16\. Wearing gloves is also a bad idea; the virus can accumulate on the glove and be easily transmitted if you touch your face. Better to just wash your hands regularly. 17. Immunity is greatly weakened by always staying in a sterile environment. Even if you eat immunity-boosting foods, quit regularly from your home to any park/beach. Immunity is increased by exposure to pathogens, not by staying home and consuming fried foods / spicy / sugary and carbonated drinks, and not engaging in activities physical. This is the type of news we have to share.… If the virus is proliferating, so let's proliferate good ideas and good tips too! Please spread the word so we can put an end to collective dementia._ ## Marta Temido, Minister of Health of Portugal, gives 17 tips about Covid-19? The message and, more recently, the video circulated with great force on social networks social. Despite this, the message in question contains incorrect information (some “only” outdated information about Covid-19) and is not from the Minister of Health of Portugal, Marta Temido. In reality, this message, with some variations, has already been refuted sometimes here at Boatos.org. In the first of them, the list of tips was attributed to doctor Robert Redfield Jr. On Monday, the message circulated without the Robert's name, but with a link to an article that took a speech out of context by Marta Temido about returning to reality (also denied here). That was enough for the text to start being attributed to her. The only difference between the “second version of the rumor” and today's is in the position. At the time, Marta Temido was described as “from the University of Maryland”. This time, the credit to the Minister of Health is correct, but the authorship of the statement remains wrong. Remember what we wrote about authorship. According to this check carried out in Spain, by TVE, it all started with a adaptation (in our opinion, which distorts a little of the original lines) of Twitter posts by doctor Faheem Younus (this one, from the University of Maryland). The Spanish TV website points out that the list (which initially had 16 items and some different tips from the one presented in the message attributed to Robert Ray Redfield Jr.), had most of the tips correct, for example, the one that said that Covid-19 did not respect temperature (something that is not on the list which is circulating in the name of the CDC doctor). From what we saw, someone took the list attributed to Dr. Faheem Younus, changed the authorship and included erroneous information such as, for example, that “we should going out into the streets and avoiding masks for long periods.” In other words: someone (we don't know who) took a text published by a expert, modified the tips and changed the authorship. And that “someone” is not the Minister of Health Marta Temido. Now about the items. There are some things that are correct about the message. Let's go list those that are outdated or wrong. The information that “Wash the hands is the best method for your protection” is outdated. We must maintain the hand hygiene, yes, but today it is more important to maintain social distancing other people, wear masks and, of course, get vaccinated. The information that it is not possible to catch Covid-19 through “cargo packaged” is not correct. Although it is not the main form of contagion, it is It is possible to get infected from unsanitized surfaces. The same can be said about the advice not to change clothes and take a shower when you get home. The worst tip is the one that says “Wear a mask for long periods interferes with breathing and oxygen levels.” The information is false and has already been denied on Boatos.org. Another “not very good” tip (not to say another thing) is the one that says that “we should leave the house to increase our immunity and expose to pathogens.” In short: in addition to the text having a lot of misinformation about Covid-19, it was not authored by Portuguese Health Minister Marta Temido. In reality, the disinformative message is the result of a “cordless phone” that is established since the beginning of the pandemic. Ps.: This article is a suggestion from Boatos.org readers. If you want suggest a topic to Boatos.org, get in touch with us via the website, Facebook and WhatsApp on phone (61)99177-9164. Ps2: Check out our new “Opportunities” section by clicking here. 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Finally something practical and honest Minister of Health of Portugal Marta Temido delivers the reality 1 We may have to live with COVID 19 for months or years