- Joined
- Jan 24, 2018
One of the most frustrating things about Covid is how randomly it seems to actually cause problems. My 90 year old grandpa tested positive twice, and neither time did he have symptoms. And how is the queen of England not dead… And my dad’s badly overweight, pre-diabetic, ect and Covid has only been “a bad but not serious” cold for him twice now.
Meanwhile, my friend’s grandpa is dead… my other friend’s dad was on a ventilator last I heard… 3rd friend’s dad is dead…
It’s like Covid rolls dice with everybody over… 50?
while we all know that age and obesity are the major obvious factors, the last major factor is vitamin D levels. You can't know what yours are without a blood test, and for whatever reason some people have trouble absorbing enough vitamin D even if they take more than what is recommended. If you throw in that last thing then it can't really be said to be random. It is on par with obesity for predicting severity.
telling people how to check and raise their vitamin D levels by itself would have been an invaluable intervention. I had read some critical care doctors trying huge doses of vitamin D for inpatients and it seemed to have helped in the case studies submitted, a trial would have revealed more but of course there is no money at all to be made off of such a study & there was already institutional bias against cheap repurposing so we probably won't find out, at least not for many years.
keeping vitamin d levels high actually seems to help with the severity of respiratory diseases in general, so colds and such aren't as miserable either.
our species evolved being in the sun every damn day and now we spend lots of time indoors. explains a lot.
are your friends ugly? masks have operated like a social equalizer for ugly people. noses, mouths, and chins have way more potential for ugly than eyes do so the advantage to them is greater than if everyone had covered up their entire face instead. I don't really blame ugly people (or deformed people, those w/acne, etc) from wanting to keep this shit around. life will predictably get worse for them again.I was with friends earlier and the subject of mask mandates came up. They pretty much all agreed that indoor mandates should be permanent.
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they also might just be fucking stupid.
I am really looking forward to mask mandates being gone everywhere, the minority of people (majority of democrats) who REALLY love masks finding out that most maskers fucking hated this shit and only went along with it because they didn't want to get in trouble.