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Yeah I know the feeling of being overwhelmed, don't have any good answers other than the biological reality that sometimes anxiety and depression can be useful survival tools - studying is important, but you also might want to think about having enough water and calories to survive if things start to collapse, most groceries have about a three-day supply of food.

And since you're studying biology in college, I'm sure you'll be able to follow along with this: https://www.harvard2thebighouse.com/p/understanding-covid-19-and-seasonal

And I'd guess the mortality would be somewhere in the range of the original SARS1 and MERS, with MERS being a lot worse at roughly 1/3... but yeah whether it's 1/9 or 1/2 - with repeat infections, everyone's gonna die if transmission isn't stopped.

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What do you think it will take to stop transmission?

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Every public space is going to need far more circulation, so much that I dunno if it'll be feasible in skyscrapers, and almost certainly acidified air:

https://www.harvard2thebighouse.com/p/only-yahwehs-breath-can-save-us-now

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I thought of doing indoor air campaigns for my college like promoting or giving out DIY air filters, but I lack the willpower, and also am unsure of how to logistically manage that. That and also given the public apathy towards this, it’s hard to find such things.

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