Farooq Ambar, Kumar Uttam, Uddin Junaite Bin Gais, Rashid Muhammad Haroon U, Gilani Matoor Mohsin, Farooq Taimoor Hassan, Shakoor Awais, Ahmad Matloob
Department of Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000 Punjab Pakistan.
College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 Fujian People's Republic of China.
Environ Sustain (Singap). 2021;4(3):579-584. doi: 10.1007/s42398-021-00175-9. Epub 2021 May 20.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a major global challenge since 2019. With the fast rise in the infected cases and deaths worldwide, many environmental and climate-related myths and fallacies spreaded fast. These fallacies include virus cannot spread in hot and humid conditions, cold weather can inhibit the virus, drinking hot water and sunlight can help cure the COVID-19, ultraviolet (UV) disinfectant lamps and UV rays from sunlight can kill the virus, use of hairdryers and hot showers for virus prevention, etc. Social norms and mindset of the people in the world towards a pandemic are quite similar. The primary purpose of this article is to enlighten the readers regarding these climatological misconceptions and social fallacies, helping spread proper knowledge and manage the outbreak of this deadly pandemic.
自2019年以来,冠状病毒病(COVID-19)已成为一项重大的全球挑战。随着全球感染病例和死亡人数的迅速上升,许多与环境和气候相关的谣言和谬论迅速传播。这些谬论包括病毒在炎热潮湿的环境中无法传播、寒冷天气可抑制病毒、饮用热水和晒太阳有助于治愈COVID-19、紫外线消毒灯和阳光中的紫外线可杀死病毒、使用吹风机和洗热水澡预防病毒等。全世界人们对于大流行病的社会规范和思维模式颇为相似。本文的主要目的是让读者了解这些气候学误解和社会谬论,帮助传播正确知识并应对这一致命大流行病的爆发。