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The people who are susceptible to colds will be just as susceptible to COVID-19 and supplements will do about nothing.
Much less than religiously washing hands and wearing quality masks, preferably respirators, for sure.
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It's a bit off topic, but the seeming "conspiracy" to suppress HCQ has been an eye opener for me. I think the press wants so badly for Trump to be wrong about that, that they're independently all refraining from publishing anything to the contrary. But we heard all about the very flawed or in one case outright fraudulent studies that showed it in a negative light. Meanwhile YouTube has censored videos from doctors ta…
If you ignore the press and go to the science, you'll see that the RCTs done in other countries failed to show any effect. Plus, your theory doesn't have any legs because it makes no sense for other countries to ruin their economies and lockdown themselves just to make Trump look bad. If it was a magic cure then countries like India wouldn't give a flying fuck about Trump or whatever your pet theory is.
It does seem to be a valid treatment option and most countries that temporarily stopped using it soon reinstated it as their mortality rates spiked.
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I think it’s fairly well established by now that at least part of the initial advice against wearing masks was because the federal government bungled the stockpile and wanted to prevent a run on remaining retail inventory. Which is a shame because it seriously undermined their credibility and lent much fuel to conspiracy theorists. (I have a workshop long stocked with both disposable surgical and N95 masks and reusab…
Right - they thought that it was only spread by symptomatic carriers so they advised people that were buying up the limited mask stockpiles to not buy them. It turned out that they were wrong, and that asymptomatic spread was already happening so they revised their advice and by early April were encouraging people to use homemade masks (to preserve hospital supplies of surgery masks and N95s). I don't think their cre…
As a scientist, my answer to “should we wear masks?” wouldn’t have been to deflect to contaminated surfaces - even setting aside that subsequent research showed that to be largely a non-issue.
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Until they understood that it could be spread by asymptomatic carriers -- at which point (In mid March), they fully recommended them. There are far bigger 'jokes' who are still denying mask wearing and other interventions are saving lives.
I think it’s fairly well established by now that at least part of the initial advice against wearing masks was because the federal government bungled the stockpile and wanted to prevent a run on remaining retail inventory. Which is a shame because it seriously undermined their credibility and lent much fuel to conspiracy theorists. (I have a workshop long stocked with both disposable surgical and N95 masks and reusab…