Nonsense. Most people now about vitamin D and it’s effect on the immune system. I spent the shutdowns walking and hiking in my very blue state, which was hard hit at first. Once the virus spread, the unprepared red states were devastated while their “leaders” gave them misleading information and a false sense of security.
What misleading information? You'll have to note that I'm long retired from practicing medicine of any sort, but the basics of virology and vaccines haven't changed in 150 years. We now know, thanks to Johns Hopkins, that lockdowns were ineffective and that if we'd all just behaved like Sweden we'd be better off.
It's a common-cold virus that has an easily-defined risk profile: old and fat. The likelihood of developing COVID19 with serious complications outside those two factors was minuscule. We've been committing child abuse nationwide. It is just last week that I shared with my former business partner in South Africa (black living near Jo'burg) that he needed to get his kids outdoors. He was unaware, and is extraordinarily bright and well-educated.
You can take your ill-informed opinions and put them in your backpack, or elsewhere that the sun don't shine.
I've never seen the New York Times recommend sunshine or vitamin D to improve Covid outcomes. They prefer the high-tech approach (vaccines) and masks.
When my sister got Covid (she blamed "freedom-loving patriots" at the grocery—highly unlikely), I suggested she should get into the sun. She said, huh, I never thought of that. Clearly, her doctor hadn't suggested it. But she recognized that it could probably help, certainly couldn't hurt.
When I got COVID, I went for a mountain-bike ride on a beautiful sunny Colorado December day. I had taken the test but didn't have results yet. I figured whatever it was (felt like the flu), sunshine and exercise couldn't hurt. After three nights of poor sleep, I finally slept great the night after my ride, and felt much better by the time I got my positive result the following afternoon. Maybe just coincidental, but the correlations with sunshine and good Covid outcomes are strong all around the world, so I went for the ride.
The first nine health-care workers in Britain who died were all of Indian descent. A doctor advocated for vitamin D treatments. Predictably, an organization of minority doctors resisted, preferring to blame racism. Ultimately, they did the treatments and no more doctors died.
Despite the headlines about higher Covid deaths among black people, it's not true in most places in the U.S. It's true in just a handful of areas, primarily in cool, gray climates with large black populations (Detroit, Baltimore, etc.). Black people in high latitudes have notoriously low levels of vitamin D.
I'm going off my memory on these last few items, so my details may be off a little but they are essentially correct.
Also, take Ivermectin and/or Hydroxychloroquine. Any wide-spectrum antibiotic with either steroids or another inflammation-reducer. I'm not trying to practice medicine without a license, just want to repeat things that have made eminent sense.
Nonsense. Most people now about vitamin D and it’s effect on the immune system. I spent the shutdowns walking and hiking in my very blue state, which was hard hit at first. Once the virus spread, the unprepared red states were devastated while their “leaders” gave them misleading information and a false sense of security.
What misleading information? You'll have to note that I'm long retired from practicing medicine of any sort, but the basics of virology and vaccines haven't changed in 150 years. We now know, thanks to Johns Hopkins, that lockdowns were ineffective and that if we'd all just behaved like Sweden we'd be better off.
It's a common-cold virus that has an easily-defined risk profile: old and fat. The likelihood of developing COVID19 with serious complications outside those two factors was minuscule. We've been committing child abuse nationwide. It is just last week that I shared with my former business partner in South Africa (black living near Jo'burg) that he needed to get his kids outdoors. He was unaware, and is extraordinarily bright and well-educated.
You can take your ill-informed opinions and put them in your backpack, or elsewhere that the sun don't shine.
I've never seen the New York Times recommend sunshine or vitamin D to improve Covid outcomes. They prefer the high-tech approach (vaccines) and masks.
When my sister got Covid (she blamed "freedom-loving patriots" at the grocery—highly unlikely), I suggested she should get into the sun. She said, huh, I never thought of that. Clearly, her doctor hadn't suggested it. But she recognized that it could probably help, certainly couldn't hurt.
When I got COVID, I went for a mountain-bike ride on a beautiful sunny Colorado December day. I had taken the test but didn't have results yet. I figured whatever it was (felt like the flu), sunshine and exercise couldn't hurt. After three nights of poor sleep, I finally slept great the night after my ride, and felt much better by the time I got my positive result the following afternoon. Maybe just coincidental, but the correlations with sunshine and good Covid outcomes are strong all around the world, so I went for the ride.
The first nine health-care workers in Britain who died were all of Indian descent. A doctor advocated for vitamin D treatments. Predictably, an organization of minority doctors resisted, preferring to blame racism. Ultimately, they did the treatments and no more doctors died.
Despite the headlines about higher Covid deaths among black people, it's not true in most places in the U.S. It's true in just a handful of areas, primarily in cool, gray climates with large black populations (Detroit, Baltimore, etc.). Black people in high latitudes have notoriously low levels of vitamin D.
I'm going off my memory on these last few items, so my details may be off a little but they are essentially correct.
Also, take Ivermectin and/or Hydroxychloroquine. Any wide-spectrum antibiotic with either steroids or another inflammation-reducer. I'm not trying to practice medicine without a license, just want to repeat things that have made eminent sense.