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@sbiewald I recently learned that "the cold" is the blanket name for dozens of viruzes, and some vaccines are under research to prevent some of them: https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyl... (the questions on that article are phrased in a super idiotic way IMO, but the answers are interesting)
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Treat the cause. Make sure your vitamin D levels are high. Most people have a rating (not sure measurement used) of around 15. Older people have a rating around 0. Minimum doctors say is 30 to 35. Above 50 and you are almost guaranteed to not die of covid. Low D levels make you 14x higher likelyhood of dying. Saw a talk from a virologist that said there is no such thing as cold/flu season. He said it was chronic low vitamin D level season.
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@Demolishun treating vitamin deficiency is always good, but can you find any peer-reviewed meta-analysis that links vitamin D deficiency and immune system?
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@kiki No, because I read, I forget where it comes from, I watch videos, I talk to other people who have read as well. So the sources are varied and I come to my own conclusions.
The video from the virologist came from Bitchute. It was Idaho doctor/virologist. He spoke in collaboration with the Lieutenant Governor of the State.
Edit: has this convo about vitamin D today with work colleague. -
@Demolishun opinions in science aren't valid. We need meta-analysis. Though, I understand the sense of instant anger ragequit when reality tries to make you change your worldview. Even if curing vitamin D deficiency is really proven to prevent flu, it requires persistent measures in city environment, e.g. establishing a schedule of vitamin D additives consumption. But we are humans, and we're bad at routines. Also, vaccines do work.
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@TheCommoner282 yes but for a lot of people I think it's the opposite. They don't understand the difference between a cold and a flu. Most the people I know that don't get the flu vaccine say "well I got the flu anyway".
No you didn't. You got a cold. If you get a flu that's prevented by the flu vaccine you'd have been down for weeks and maybe even ended up in the hospital. But they THINK they got the flu and therefore they believe the vaccine doesn't do anything, so they don't get it.
If you ask any sane person "hey, do you want to get some disease with fever, headache and potential risk of dying?", I doubt anyone will say "yes".
But if there exist a way to prevent it with a proven efficacy from both evidence-based medicine and science, why not get it today? I'm not even talking about covid. Why people are not getting their flu shots? How's that logic works? You mean you don't want disease, but you also don't want to take any measures to prevent it?
Every time in late autumn people get cold. For a sane person, one such case with themselves is enough to say "hey, I don't want this to happen again the next autumn". Yet people do nothing.
I can't understand this.
And this is only a flu. Hepatitis will destroy your liver and potentially will destroy your whole life, so why avoid vaccination?
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