Wear a safety helmet, instead of a COVID face mask, advises Swiss biologist

“The virus is gone for now. It will probably come back in winter, but it won’t be a second wave, but just a cold,” says Professor Beda M. Stadler. “Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of COVID-19.

“On our way back to normal, it would be good for us citizens if a few scaremongers apologized… [Such as the] media that kept showing alarmist videos of Italian hospitals to illustrate a situation that as such didn’t exist. All politicians calling for ‘testing, testing, testing’ without even knowing what the test actually measures. And the federal government for an app they’ll never get to work and will warn me if someone near me is positive, even if they’re not infectious.”

Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The above was extracted from his article: Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong

As he alludes, we should probably be more vigilant about flossing our teeth than avoiding the corona bug.

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