Here are the facts, brought to you by theWorld Health Organization.

Shoes will probably not spread COVID-19, 5G mobile networks certainly won’t, nor will mosquito bites.

In 2017, the flyswatter gained more importance than it had ever had before.

House fly

That’s not all.

According toPenn State, the common housefly may well be responsible for transmitting at least 65 diseases.

Typhoid fever, cholera, leprosy, and tuberculosis, for example.

Housefly, disease transmitter

Researchers “strongly suspect” they’re all spreadable by fly.

But what about COVID-19?

Instead of toilet paper, should we have collectively sacked our supermarkets in search of fly-killing pesticides?

Flies likely do not spread COVID-19

No, says the World Health Organization.

Flies most probably cannot spread COVID 19.

To date, no one has found a scrap of evidence that might lead to that conclusion.

If not flies, then what?

Let’s review the basics.

That’s why the CDC recommends social distancing and wearing face masks.

It’s also why the CDC doesn’t recommend a mass, fly extermination campaign.