I am 51 years of age.

I am Male.

What should I eat and what should I NOT eat to boost my immunity against The Virus?

First have a clear objective. In this case I would suggest an objective to keep your mental energy and strength as a first priority. Mental energy will help you counter the disease or any adversity. Then boost your physical energy and provide other nutrients in normal and required quantities.

So, reduce simple sugars and add a bit of complex carbs. Have at least two meals, if you can, prepare for rationing Do plenty of vegetables and a fruit now and then. Adequate water is also important, but don't be too zealous with it.

A complication may arise if and when you get infected and show symptoms. There have been reports of loss of taste and desire for food. In this case, learn to take soups. Just make sure you have some veges in it and they are lightly cooked. Don't forget the usual herbs: garlic and ginger

Otherwise keep fit and don't lose your sense of humour or sense of judgement. And bask in the sun now and then.

Are swedes being stupid?

@mpobiz is corrrect. Our leaders are fumbling on many fronts. Putting out media on fellows who have recovered will only cause people to underestimate the virus and makes it look like its a huge hullabaloo over nothing. Generally a bad idea when you want to communicate more caution.

This virus will kill many people. Those people who die will develop respiratory failure and require ventilation in ICU. More than 80% of those people with covid infection and who end up in ICU will die (this is in the European hospitals). I promise you that 98% of covid patients who end up in ICU in Kenya will die. Only the major private hospitals (Mater, AgaKhan, Nairobi and maybe Karen) have ICU capable of taking care of respiratory failure patients. Something comparable to the west, but still very far behind. I cannot even begin to describe how unprepared our ICU's are to deal with such a contagious disease. Chances are that patients will die and infect all people working in those units in the process.

With such grim reality of our health system capability to deal with issues, I would not focus on following the west blindly.

Rather than lockdown, people should continue working. Provide sanitizers, masks and training on effective social distancing. Our preparedness seems to be so focussed on the 5% who will get seriosly ill. The 5% that cannot be saved.

Of the other 15% that end up in hospitals, I hope the goverment is ensuring that all hospitals dedicated for covid 19 patients will be able to supply oxygen to these patients. Not all beds in a hospital have oxygen ports. Rather than dedicate sections of hospitals to deal with covid 19, Govt should either evacuate whole hospitals and equip them in readiness for covid patients or set up make shift hospitals in tents with adequate oxygen and drugs.

Setting apart sections of a hospital to handle /isolate covid 19 while the other sections see regular patients is a very bad idea. Cross contamination via staff will inevitably occur and expose many staff members to the virus. Remember, there is data that this virus can continue hanging in the air, say in a lift for some time.

In short, we are sitting ducks when it comes to handling the severe 5%. I am not too sure we have prepared adequately to help the not so seriously ill 15% which is where most deaths will be averted.

Instead, in a bid to protect the 20% who will show symptoms of covid 19, we have put the remaining 80% of the population on a fake lock down, disrupted family lifelines and incomes, exposed children to malnutrition and death from treatable conditions, because remember, if a family has no money, when their member gets ill from treatable conditions, they will not seek appropriate care. The ripple effects of this fake lock down will be felt long after corona is brought under control. Many will die from non corona causes because a fumbling govt cannot see the whole picture. They want to copy the west.