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The Art Of Punning
Starts at page 400 of this PDF
of the works of Jonathan Swift
https://books.google.pn/books?id=7bnRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA387&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Ventilators by GM Kokomo
Obesity and COVID-19: Theories and Blame Fill the Scientific Void
Obesity is the latest theory du jour for why some SARS-CoV-2 infections take a deadlier course, particularly in the young.
https://www.tctmd.com/news/obesity-and-covid-19-theories-and-blame-fill-scientific-void
Malhotra, who took a similar stance in a viewpoint published in European Scientist last week, draws a line between the consumption of ultraprocessed foods, the 60% rate of overweight and obesity in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the severity of illness many in these two countries are facing from COVID-19, calling obesity—and metabolic syndrome more generally—the “elephant in the room” amid the scramble to prevent more deaths.
“I think that message needs to be loud and clear, and I call for this in my article, that actually to reduce morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 people need to be getting the message right now to be cutting out the ultraprocessed junk food,” Malhotra told TCTMD. “Eat real food, protect the NHS, and save lives.”
Covid 19 and the elephant in the room
https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/article-of-the-week/covid-19-and-the-elephant-in-the-room/
Last week I inquired as to how a close friend of mine, a director of research and a senior clinical doctor in one of New York’s’ busiest ER departments, was coping amongst the coronavirus outbreak.
“A dire situation. Our already broken health care system is on the verge of collapse. Please pray for us” he replied.
But the elephant in the room is that the baseline general health in many western populations were already in a horrendous state to begin with. In the UK and USA more than 60% of adults are overweight or obese. How is this relevant to COVID-19?
OBESITY, THE REAL KILLER BEHIND COVID
It is well known in the medical literature that excess body fat induces immune dysregulation and chronic inflammation which is directly linked to the cytokine storm that is responsible for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome seen in influenza and other respiratory viruses. (4)
The paper referenced as (4) is attached as PDF
Impact of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome on Immunity
Obesity Increases the Duration of Influenza A Virus Shedding in Adults
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6151083/
A novel risk factor for a novel virus: obesity and 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21208911
TheScienceis becoming clear. A one-two punch.
I try to get outside in the sunshine and walk for an hour or more every day. If it is cloudy or raining, then I take vitamin D. Dark skinned people maybe should take vitamin D any day that there is not a cloudless sky with glaring sunshine.
P.S. it is not the virus that kills people, it is the acute respiratory tract infection. We cannot control the virus but we CAN control our state of health.
Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583.long
Abstract
Objectives To assess the overall effect of vitamin D supplementation on risk of acute respiratory tract infection, and to identify factors modifying this effect.
Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data (IPD) from randomised controlled trials.
Data sources Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trials Number registry from inception to December 2015.
Eligibility criteria for study selection Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trials of supplementation with vitamin D3 or vitamin D2 of any duration were eligible for inclusion if they had been approved by a research ethics committee and if data on incidence of acute respiratory tract infection were collected prospectively and prespecified as an efficacy outcome.
Results 25 eligible randomised controlled trials (total 11 321 participants, aged 0 to 95 years) were identified. IPD were obtained for 10 933 (96.6%) participants. Vitamin D supplementation reduced the risk of acute respiratory tract infection among all participants (adjusted odds ratio 0.88, 95% confidence interval 0.81 to 0.96; P for heterogeneity <0.001). In subgroup analysis, protective effects were seen in those receiving daily or weekly vitamin D without additional bolus doses (adjusted odds ratio 0.81, 0.72 to 0.91) but not in those receiving one or more bolus doses (adjusted odds ratio 0.97, 0.86 to 1.10; P for interaction=0.05). Among those receiving daily or weekly vitamin D, protective effects were stronger in those with baseline 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <25 nmol/L (adjusted odds ratio 0.30, 0.17 to 0.53) than in those with baseline 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels ≥25 nmol/L (adjusted odds ratio 0.75, 0.60 to 0.95; P for interaction=0.006). Vitamin D did not influence the proportion of participants experiencing at least one serious adverse event (adjusted odds ratio 0.98, 0.80 to 1.20, P=0.83). The body of evidence contributing to these analyses was assessed as being of high quality.
Conclusions Vitamin D supplementation was safe and it protected against acute respiratory tract infection overall. Patients who were very vitamin D deficient and those not receiving bolus doses experienced the most benefit.
Coronavirus Impact it's Mostly Being Driven by Diet Induced Destruction!
I saw this clip this morning on BBC World Service in Canada
Dr. Aseem Malhotra on primetime BBC News — only 4 minutes, but wow such truth!
Also, he is not useless dead.
He did manage to give testimony, I believe to a grand jury, before he died, so now all the evidence gathered in his home is admissible in court in the trials of other defendants.
Maybe the paramedics are smothering the patients in the ambulance
They can get away with murder because any physical evidence of smothering is hidden by the respirator masks.