According to the Daily Mail on May 19, hail recently fell in the city of Montemorelos in nuevo León, northern Mexico, but because the shape of the hail is very similar to the coronavirus, some witnesses panicked, and some people spread rumors on social networking sites, saying that God is reminding them to "stay at home and don't run around".
Recently, a hailstone shaped like a coronavirus has fallen in Mexico. Some local people are very superstitious, believing that this phenomenon represents God's will.
The day after the hail, a netizen posted: "Yesterday, there was a 'coronavirus hail' in the sky, and God sent these hailstones to our home to remind us not to run around at home." Someone then asked in the comments section, "Is this a subconscious message from the Creator?" ”
Coronavirus particles are spherical in shape, with many regularly arranged protrusions on the surface, and the whole virus particles resemble the crown of a medieval European emperor, hence the name "coronavirus". Judging from the hail photos taken by netizens in Mexico, the two are indeed very similar.
But Jose Miguel Vinas, a meteorologist and consultant at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), says hailstones are actually quite normal to have such a shape.
"Inside the storm, hail would start out as a small spherical shape and accumulate ice on top," he said. ”
"In very intense storms, when hailstones are already quite large and collide with each other, many hailstones will combine and squeeze against each other to form ice spikes. As a result, the sky fell with crushed ice cubes, which underwent violent impacts, and hailstones of different sizes fused into this star shape. ”
In the context of the global epidemic of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the people of some countries are in a state of panic, and some people even have a bow and snake shadow, associating some accidental phenomena or coincidences in life with the virus. In addition to the panic caused by the Mexican hail, Australia has also made a "major discovery" on the country's new 20 yuan banknote.
According to the Daily Mail, an Australian netizen found that the lower right corner of the front and the lower left corner of the reverse side of the 20 yuan note had a coronavirus-like pattern, and he uploaded a photo of the paper money to social media, which triggered various speculations among netizens. Some people say that the reason why this coronavirus-like pattern appears on the $20 dollar is because this year is 2020, hinting at the outbreak of the epidemic.
In fact, the motif on the banknote is the flower of the acacia tree in native Australia, but it happens to be similar in appearance to the new crown virus.
People are afraid of the virus is normal, but it is the right way to understand the virus from a scientific point of view to prevent and control the epidemic.