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Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

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Post by matt-attack »

liamcardenas wrote: post #310
atarian wrote: post #247

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Fat is actually one of the last things the body burns during starvation. Your muscles usually go first.

This makes no sense. Why would the body prefer to break down a functional store of energy when has access to a non-functional one?

Pretty sure that’s exactly the purpose (evolutionarily speaking) of fat. It’s an intermittent store of energy to fill in the gaps between the sporadic meals we evolved eating.

It just makes so much sense that when food is plentiful (peak season) you want to be able to pack on the fat in order to get you through the cold season when food is scarce.

Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

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Post by pascalxus »

capkutay wrote: post #349
millettjon wrote: post #168

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You can maximize immune system functioning by making sure you get proper nutrition and plenty of sleep.

I know this sounds trivial, but there's data that suggests common immune-systems boosters such as zinc and vitamin C do help with covid-19. https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

Just get some green lentils from the bulk section. Lentils are high in zinc and It's always better to get your nutrition from actual food, rather than supplements which are unregulated and contain god knows what (not to mention it's not how your body normaly absorbs nutrients).

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Post by 0x8BADF00D »

BoiledCabbage wrote: post #450
liamcardenas wrote: post #310

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This makes no sense. Why would the body prefer to break down a functional store of energy when has access to a non-functional one?

Because the functional store requires energy to maintain? Getting rid of it reduces the daily caloric need. Pure speculation

It depends on which variant of PPARG you have.

Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

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Post by Scipio_Afri »

allovernow wrote: post #412
dfsegoat wrote: post #358

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What led you to believe I cited the news? I cite the WHO and CDC where I could. If I am interpreting that information incorrectly based on my previous experience in epidemiology, please educate me. - SARS case fatality rate = 15% (WHO - 1) - MERS case fatality rate = 34.4% (WHO - 2) - COVID19 case fatality rate = 2.3% (WHO - 3^) 1- https://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/WHOconsensus.pdf 2- https://www.who.int/emergencies/me…

The numbers from China are totally innaccurate and underestimating the infection rate by at least an order of magnitude for a multitude of reasons. The WHO has been irresponsibly mirroring the Chinese numbers from the start and frankly cannot be trusted - the director of the WHO was accused by the NYT years ago of covering up 3 cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia. China has been overwhelmed. They ran ou…

Regarding the bonds, that doesn’t seem true. The conditions for payout are:

“ On the face of it, the class B bond should have incurred losses during the 2018 ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the recent coronavirus from Wuhan, China, as both have resulted in deaths north of 250 people, the primary condition for a payout.”

“ But an important secondary condition states that there must be at least 20 deaths in a second country for the bond to release any funds, a requirement that has not been met by the coronavirus or the ebola outbreak.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-world-bank-has-an-insu...

Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

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Post by matchagaucho »

pmoriarty wrote: post #376
matchagaucho wrote: post #297

I recently returned from Asia and completed a 14-day self quarantine. I was there most of Jan and Feb, when the virus news was emerging. The area I was in became highly xenophobic. It was disturbing to watch. 90% of prevention is just boosting the immune system, washing hands, and not touching your face. Carry hand cleanser everywhere and use it frequently. When I felt a scratch in my throat I'd stop by a 7 Eleven, b…

"When I felt a scratch in my throat I'd stop by a 7 Eleven, buy a $1 bottle of gin, and gargle." Wait. What? I don't think that's actually effective at ridding you of a viral infection.

Right. Doesn't help an infection. Probably makes it worse.

But I suspect there's a window of about 30 minutes where the efficacy of alcohol on the hands has a similar effect on the throat.

Make the host as inhospitable as possible and maybe it'll prevent an infection.

Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

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Post by rediguanayum »

cjamesd wrote: post #433
jacquesm wrote: post #278

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Young children are surprisingly resilient against Coronavirus infections, their mortality is so low that it hardly figures in the stats (on an individual level it is still just as much a tragedy).

As the father of a newborn, grateful to hear this. Do you have a source?

I have kids too and wondered about this. Chinese CDC epidemiology study indicates that kids seemed to be spared from Covid-19 (See table 1) http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

Age is very significant for mortality rate: 0-9: 0%, ..., 60-69: 3.6%, 70-79: 8.0%, 80+: 14.8%. Also the regional breakdown is apparently a useful approximation of what happens when the healthcare system is overwhelmed (Hubei 2.9%) vs not (other Chinese provinces 0.4%). Also 81% patients reported mild symptoms.

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Post by eecc »

remarkEon wrote: post #414
craftinator wrote: post #396

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As a Marine who has gone through many, many building and leaning cycles, I call BS on this. When you drop that fat, you aren't actually losing muscular tissue (at least not much). I've gotten down to Olympian levels of body fat, 9-10%, and what you are losing besides the fat is water weight. Your muscles shrink because they hold in less blood; your body regulates this to keep blood pressure normalized with all the de…

Yeah, came here to say this (was in the Army). My experience is the same. When it started to happen you could actually smell it (smells like ammonia ... like cat urine, almost).

That’s ketosis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis

Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

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Post by pmoriarty »

matchagaucho wrote: post #455
pmoriarty wrote: post #376

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"When I felt a scratch in my throat I'd stop by a 7 Eleven, buy a $1 bottle of gin, and gargle." Wait. What? I don't think that's actually effective at ridding you of a viral infection.

Right. Doesn't help an infection. Probably makes it worse. But I suspect there's a window of about 30 minutes where the efficacy of alcohol on the hands has a similar effect on the throat. Make the host as inhospitable as possible and maybe it'll prevent an infection.

An itching throat is a symptom that comes from already being infected. It's not a sign that you're about to get infected.

So trying to prevent an infection when you're already infected doesn't make any sense.

Besides, there's no evidence that gargling with alcohol will prevent an infection either.

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Post by copperx »

tmaly wrote: post #88
nabla9 wrote: post #40

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General advice for any bug that transfers trough fecal-oral route, not just for COVID-19: 1. Dot's store your toothbrush in the bathroom (at least during the times when you suspect that some family member might get infected). There are fecal matter particles in the bathroom air. You can get the ass-to-mouth transfer in the same household from toothbrushes stored in the bathroom. 2. Close the toilet lid before you flu…

I never thought of toothbrush issue. I keep a cap on my brush and store it in cabinet

That doesn't do anything. Store the brush part submerged in alcohol, Listerine, or hydrogen peroxide.

Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

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Post by copperx »

vl wrote: post #304
ravenstine wrote: post #63

I've already been preparing as a hobby for the last 3 years, not specifically for coronavirus, but here's how I'm prepared for it: - I work remotely, so I can hunker down at home and have my income totally unaffected. - I've close to 6 months worth of food, and I've been buying more in the last month as the news continues. I can give some tips on what I think is good inexpensive food to get in case anyone is interest…

What about guns/ammo?

What for? To shoot the virus?
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