Two things today:
Public policy contradicts the science - Wuhan flu will stop when herd immunity occurs. Both deaths and economic damage are minimized when herd immunity occurs as a result of largely asymptomatic people getting exposed to the virus as quickly as possible. Anything done by policy makers to actively prevent the spread of Wuhan Flu to the healthy (eg school closures and business lockdowns) actually winds up increasing the number of deaths and hurting the economy. The target should be to try and get the approximately 60% with antibodies needed for herd immunity to be largely from the healthy population. Ben Shapiro has been good about this recently - I guess Israeli scientists call it the controlled avalanche approach.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-reopening-controlled-avalanche-strategy-ben-shapiro.amp
We Flubros published our version of the same science here (we were first to publish)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3830890/posts
Public policy is both killing people and destroying the economy.
Boosting immune system against CV - Young healthy people are not affected by CV. This will be known as the nursing home disease with maybe half of all deaths nursing home residents. Nursing home patients are often stuck inside all day which makes them vitamin D deficient. Low vitamin D is apparently an excellent predictor of probability of dying from CV. So vitamin D supplementation and/or sunlight will help make sure you are asymptomatic if you get exposed. Extra zinc might also help as it kills the virus. Not sure of the science but maybe since Hydroxychloroquine plus zinc helps them zinc alone must surely help too. Any other Flubro insights on how to stay healthy when exposed to Wuhan?
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The vitamins are ok. Not really shown to be a benefit but can’t hurt. With the exception of Vitamin D the rest has very marginal evidence. In order to stay safe...wash your hands often, keep your hands out of your mouth, nose and eyes
And be joyful. Nothing pisses off a Fearper more than a happay warrior. And happiness actually improves the immune system.
I was walking down Woodward Ave. in Detroit yesterday evening. As I passed a guy standing in the doorway of a dilapidated old house he said “Pssssssst, hey buddy, looking for a haircut?”
In any case I started a daily regimen of C, D3, Zinc, and Turmeric. We Gen Xers are getting up there in years, so I figured it was a good time to start with supplements.
A side benefit is that allergies aren't as bad this year.
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
I love life but I also cherish the ability that we have, which is to Live life. A nasty Flu Bug just plain sucks but the world is filled with those that cherish fear and prey on the weak. Division and panic brings about more fear and less life to be lived... Keep more people scared to move beyond the “safety” of their homes and watch that leading cause of death skyrocket in the future.
We got a reminder of the fragility of life this morning. During our Safety Huddle this morning we mentioned the bad car wreck just down the street and the large presence of Fire Trucks and an Ambulance. I could hear a helicopter over at the small airport and pointed out that it was Life Flight that was transporting the person to the hospital. We watched it take off and fly towards Charlotte...
T'was ever thus. Top down direction has never been successful.