Coronavirus **support** thread
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Jul 2020
6:32pm, 12 Jul 2020
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Little Miss Happy
Sorry forest - I guess you probably said but I can't remember - where was the holiday too?
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Jul 2020
6:32pm, 12 Jul 2020
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Little Miss Happy
To, I meant to - I need an edit function!
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Jul 2020
8:08am, 13 Jul 2020
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geordiegirl
Just spotted this on a friends fb page. hectordrummond.com |
Jul 2020
8:44am, 13 Jul 2020
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forest plodder
LMH, Rhodes in Greece, so also a 4 hour plane journey each way. Not for them this year.
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Jul 2020
8:59am, 13 Jul 2020
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jda
“Run its course” What a dangerous idiot. |
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Jul 2020
9:15am, 13 Jul 2020
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geordiegirl
Yes I did think that was a brave statement but it was the thinking on vitamin D as I heard something about that having a good effect on people with the Spanish flu. And the comments around diet and not enough focus on helping people to work towards a better healthier lifestyle. It is still cheaper to eat processed rubbish that cook from scratch healthy foods. Fast food too accessible. Adding this back to the curriculum with lessons on healthy lifestyle would be a great starting point. I lived in Oman a few years ago. They noticed an increase in health issues so implemented measures including a high tax on sugar foodstuff. Signs were put up to guide people into healthier lifestyles. |
Jul 2020
9:35am, 13 Jul 2020
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mathschick
I thought there had been a study on vitamin D and covid which showed that it made no difference. I also felt that part of the discourse (not in that article but in the media) on vitamin was a way of blaming the disproportionate effect of covid on the BAME community on genetics, shifting it away from structural inequalities. Sorry - I know that is straying into politics, and I am probably not going to be able to find the link to the vit D stuff. |
Jul 2020
9:48am, 13 Jul 2020
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Velociraptor
The vitamin D angle HAS been explored and discovered not to be a worthwhile approach to COVID-19 management. It's a cheap, safe and accessible supplement and if it worked it would have been pushed hard. Mr Spedding's poorly informed little soapbox rant deserves more obscurity than it appears to have achieved. |
Jul 2020
9:51am, 13 Jul 2020
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Grast_girl
I think the problem re vit D is that there haven't been any proper trials that accurately measured vit D prior to infection, so no study can show causation. I think it makes sense to take a normal vit D supplement for pretty much everyone through the winter and through the summer for anyone who doesn't get out of the house for 15 min each day while their shadow is shorter than they are (and also those with darker skin/covered skin who might not make enough even then). Vit D is cheap and quite hard to overdose on. You can read more here: surrey.ac.uk |
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Jul 2020
9:55am, 13 Jul 2020
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Velociraptor
I agree, G_g, I'm very much in favour of those of us in northern latitudes taking an over-the-counter strength vitamin D supplement routinely. I've been interested to note (observationally, so with no real credibility) in my own practice that giving high doses of vitamin D to patients whose levels are low appears neither to make much difference to their measured vitamin D levels nor to make any difference to the subjective symptoms that get popularly attributed to a lack of vitamin D.
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