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Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

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Re: Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

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Post by glitcher »

hammock wrote: post #13

Too many "promising" studies like cannabis, vitamin D, chloroquine, ivermectin, etc have been later fact-checked by the CDC as bad science, to rely on anything but the CDC's word (or Fauci). Until the CDC says so I won't believe it. Right now it seems like mass vaccination is our only way out of this pandemic and back to normal.

Well it is a single scientific study. To believe it as fact would be a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works.

I agree with the spirit of your comment in that I would hold out for more scientific replication of these results to increase my confidence beyond the level of simple curiosity.

Re: Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

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Post by serf »

hammock wrote: post #13

Too many "promising" studies like cannabis, vitamin D, chloroquine, ivermectin, etc have been later fact-checked by the CDC as bad science, to rely on anything but the CDC's word (or Fauci). Until the CDC says so I won't believe it. Right now it seems like mass vaccination is our only way out of this pandemic and back to normal.

>Until the CDC says so I won't believe it.

I lost that urge after the 'masks are only useful for medical workers' kerfuffle.

now, you can explain to me how I lost something in translation, how they didn't mean exactly that , and that I am misinterpreting history -- but then I would counter with 'One of the primary jobs of the CDC is to translate medical advice into something easily consumable for the citizenry they serve.' -- and I wholeheartedly disagree that happened in any effective or successful manner across this event.

Re: Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

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Post by tzs »

colecut wrote: post #18
hammock wrote: post #13

Too many "promising" studies like cannabis, vitamin D, chloroquine, ivermectin, etc have been later fact-checked by the CDC as bad science, to rely on anything but the CDC's word (or Fauci). Until the CDC says so I won't believe it. Right now it seems like mass vaccination is our only way out of this pandemic and back to normal.

Since the vaccinations are stopping the spread?

They reduce chances of hospitalization by at least an order of magnitude, and the chances of death by even more.

COVID is almost certainly never going away. It will become endemic, joining the other endemic viruses such as the couple hundred cold viruses (including 4 other coronavirus that were once deadly pandemics) and the various flu viruses we reluctantly live with. Something we all get several times over our lifetime, that most of the time just make most of us pretty miserable for up to a week or so.

How many people die during the transition from pandemic to endemic depends greatly on how risky it is to acquire your first immunity, and how strong that first immunity is when it comes to preventing hospitalization and death. The lowest risk way to acquire that first immunity is by vaccination. It's also the way that provides the highest chances of strong immunity--when you acquire it by an actual infection it depends on how severe the first infection was.

So yes, mass vaccination gives us the best chances of returning to normal sooner with less death along the way.

Re: Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

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Post by hammock »

tzs wrote: post #25
colecut wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since the vaccinations are stopping the spread?

They reduce chances of hospitalization by at least an order of magnitude, and the chances of death by even more. COVID is almost certainly never going away. It will become endemic, joining the other endemic viruses such as the couple hundred cold viruses (including 4 other coronavirus that were once deadly pandemics) and the various flu viruses we reluctantly live with. Something we all get several times over our lif…

>They reduce chances of hospitalization by at least an order of magnitude, and the chances of death by even more

Want to point out this was your response to the question, "Since the vaccinations are stopping the spread?" in case you wanted to re-read your answer.

Re: Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

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Post by hammock »

glitcher wrote: post #22
hammock wrote: post #13

Too many "promising" studies like cannabis, vitamin D, chloroquine, ivermectin, etc have been later fact-checked by the CDC as bad science, to rely on anything but the CDC's word (or Fauci). Until the CDC says so I won't believe it. Right now it seems like mass vaccination is our only way out of this pandemic and back to normal.

Well it is a single scientific study. To believe it as fact would be a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works. I agree with the spirit of your comment in that I would hold out for more scientific replication of these results to increase my confidence beyond the level of simple curiosity.

Has there been any such replication of the "natural immunity protection is equal or greater to vaccine protection" study(s) yet?

Re: Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants

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Post by cannaceo »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #4

Note that they are talking about CBGa and CBDa. While these are present in whole flower and some concentrates, heating it up for vaporization or combustion leads to decarboxylation meaning you’ll be ingesting CBD and CBG. Can’t wait for more research. Anyone wanting to act on this should go for non baked edibles such as tinctures. Since 2018, a lot of these products are actually legally available online in most of th…

You need to consume CBD crude oil as an edible here.

You won’t find CBG crude in any commercial products. CBG is almost exclusively converted to isolate or distillate prior to sale.

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