That youtube doc has spent some time analysing the various studies out there - https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/search?query=vitamin dIs there any scientific literature showing that high vitamin D levels correlate to no symptoms or serious illness from Covid-19?
A friend's been recommending I take a ton of Vitamin D; suggested 4000-5000 IU as I fight this thing off (on day 4 after showing symptoms).
I'm sure he's coming from a good place, just wanted to be certain it's based in actual studies....
You gotta serious question the accuracy of the numbers though in particular at this time of the year.Case numbers don’t seem that bad in context of at one point being told they were doubling every 2-3 days and 24,000 of them being Northern Ireland’s catch-up total.
Especially when there’s such a shortage of LFTs and PCRs - normally they’d say genuine cases is X times the official number but you then have to multiply that again I’d imagine.You gotta serious question the accuracy of the numbers though in particular at this time of the year.
It was a shit joke really. I like Akira.You think that was pretentious ?
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Nothing wrong with Vit D so this isn’t a response to that but having loved his videos at the start of the pandemic you can’t help notice the subtle red flags recently that he wouldn’t look out of place on the Tory backbench. Constantly pushing ivermectin, slating the EU, having underhanded digs at Fauci and Biden, loving what Scott Morrison had to say a few days back about getting on with it, thinks the Public Health organisations are overstating omnicron and lying to us…been some little undertones I haven’t liked recently from him. I still watch because he’s good at breaking down data but definitely not as balanced as he used to appear.That youtube doc has spent some time analysing the various studies out there - https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/search?query=vitamin d
tl;dr is yes, he's an advocate for it.
I personally it derives from the worst influence of the whole Protestant work ethic stuff from the 19th century, "idle hands do the devil's work" and all that. And of course, many business owners don't care about their employees health at all and view them as morally inferior for not being rich.I'm sure if we see hospitals getting full we'll see more restrictions, but there's definitely little political will in this country to save lives by closing down parts of society.
During the first wave I heard about a local restaurant that was telling staff to keep working sick, I hope they got in trouble but I don't actually know. My town still has a mask mandate indoors, though it was removed for about 2 weeks in the summer.
Yes, I think that's part of it. In this specific case the owners are greedy, uncaring scum, but I'm sure many were and are scared of losing their business. I'm surprised we haven't lost more restaurants than we have. Since we know the state and our fellow citizens won't help us get our business or lost profits back, why should we destroy our livelihood for them (is the thinking I imagine)? Not to mention many employees can't afford to not work.I personally it derives from the worst influence of the whole Protestant work ethic stuff from the 19th century, "idle hands do the devil's work" and all that. And of course, many business owners don't care about their employees health at all and view them as morally inferior for not being rich.
Look up the MATH+ protocols.Is there any scientific literature showing that high vitamin D levels correlate to no symptoms or serious illness from Covid-19?
A friend's been recommending I take a ton of Vitamin D; suggested 4000-5000 IU as I fight this thing off (on day 4 after showing symptoms).
I'm sure he's coming from a good place, just wanted to be certain it's based in actual studies....
That's a good point about some business owners just being scared to lose their business. Especially since those PPP loans didn't always go to true small businesses. I know some big, rich firms received some of those loans despite being wealthy businesses stacked with cash (they were just under the 150-200 employee threshold).Yes, I think that's part of it. In this specific case the owners are greedy, uncaring scum, but I'm sure many were and are scared of losing their business. I'm surprised we haven't lost more restaurants than we have. Since we know the state and our fellow citizens won't help us get our business or lost profits back, why should we destroy our livelihood for them (is the thinking I imagine)? Not to mention many employees can't afford to not work.
We need a really big celebrity with long covid to get people to care.
I think things are going to get pretty dicey - the numbers in hospital are going up fast and it’s now translating into the older age groups. Thankfully I don’t think ventilation/ICU bed numbers are going up much - but the sheer numbers visiting hospitals could get pretty high. Usual proviso about with not because of/hospital acquired etc but there’s definitely going to be massive strain on the NHS even in the best case scenario. The admission numbers in London have only gone up by 20 from yesterday and cases MAY have peaked there so hopefully admissions are approaching their peak too.
For the UK population, I think we're getting to the point where Covid is a mild cold for 57.5%, a bad cold for a 24.8%, a 'flu' for 7.6% and a severe 'flu' for 10.1%.
But as more people catch it, it'll become a common cold for everyone. We just need to balance the herd immunity strategy with not overloading the NHS with people from the 10.1%. The selfish cnuts.
Thankfully, I think the NHS appears to be holding out so far.
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Fair points.I think things are going to get pretty dicey - the numbers in hospital are going up fast and it’s now translating into the older age groups. Thankfully I don’t think ventilation/ICU bed numbers are going up much - but the sheer numbers visiting hospitals could get pretty high. Usual proviso about with not because of/hospital acquired etc but there’s definitely going to be massive strain on the NHS even in the best case scenario. The admission numbers in London have only gone up by 20 from yesterday and cases MAY have peaked there so hopefully admissions are approaching their peak too.
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Sounds like you'd be a day early of the 7 days at worst(taking the 26th as your first day of symptoms). Do an LFT tonight and then tomorrow and you're probably good to go, as per UK rules.Right, help me out with a situation here lads…
Basically, I got my booster on the 22nd, felt like shit for a number of days and then on 26th I felt a whole lot worse, with a sore throat and minor cough added to my fever and headache.
Since I had nowhere to go in Boxing Day anyway, I decided to just wait it out and see how I felt the next day but I’d already decided that I probably actually had covid.
Felt the same the next day, had no LFTs available but I had pretty much self diagnosed myself with covid at this point so I didn’t see the need for a PCR and just decided to isolate anyway.
Since then, I’ve discovered friends who I saw on the 23rd have had symptoms over Xmas and they have had PCR tests confirmed positive and have to isolate till Jan 4th. It’s likely we all got it at the same time.
Myself on the other hand, I now feel fantastic with just a slight tickle in my throat. My plan tomorrow providing I feel as if I hadn’t have had a virus in the first place, is to take some LFTs and if all is well I will stop isolating.
Question is, am I being a dick? I don’t want to isolate longer than I have to tbh and I feel like that although I’m not following the rules, I’m not really breaking any rules either as I’ve never tested positive in the first place.
The grey area is I don’t really know when my symptoms started because of my booster.
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Totally agree. I've stopped watching him as I no longer trust him to be impartial.Nothing wrong with Vit D so this isn’t a response to that but having loved his videos at the start of the pandemic you can’t help notice the subtle red flags recently that he wouldn’t look out of place on the Tory backbench. Constantly pushing ivermectin, slating the EU, having underhanded digs at Fauci and Biden, loving what Scott Morrison had to say a few days back about getting on with it, thinks the Public Health organisations are overstating omnicron and lying to us…been some little undertones I haven’t liked recently from him. I still watch because he’s good at breaking down data but definitely not as balanced as he used to appear.
You seem sure you have/had it and you think you got it at the same time as people who got tested and have to isolate until Jan 4th. You still have symptoms so you will be infectious so it isn't about following the rules, it is about not infecting others. And bear in mind LFT's have a high false negative rate so a negative when you are almost certain to have covid means little.Right, help me out with a situation here lads…
Basically, I got my booster on the 22nd, felt like shit for a number of days and then on 26th I felt a whole lot worse, with a sore throat and minor cough added to my fever and headache.
Since I had nowhere to go in Boxing Day anyway, I decided to just wait it out and see how I felt the next day but I’d already decided that I probably actually had covid.
Felt the same the next day, had no LFTs available but I had pretty much self diagnosed myself with covid at this point so I didn’t see the need for a PCR and just decided to isolate anyway.
Since then, I’ve discovered friends who I saw on the 23rd have had symptoms over Xmas and they have had PCR tests confirmed positive and have to isolate till Jan 4th. It’s likely we all got it at the same time.
Myself on the other hand, I now feel fantastic with just a slight tickle in my throat. My plan tomorrow providing I feel as if I hadn’t have had a virus in the first place, is to take some LFTs and if all is well I will stop isolating.
Question is, am I being a dick? I don’t want to isolate longer than I have to tbh and I feel like that although I’m not following the rules, I’m not really breaking any rules either as I’ve never tested positive in the first place.
The grey area is I don’t really know when my symptoms started because of my booster.
NSW alone topped 21k today. We win. Erm, lose.Over 20k today in ireland. A new record.
still stubbornly going to open the schools next week I believe
Why not just book a PCR for tomorrow? We didn't have any trouble getting one done on the same day. It doesn't take much effort to just do that.Right, help me out with a situation here lads…
Basically, I got my booster on the 22nd, felt like shit for a number of days and then on 26th I felt a whole lot worse, with a sore throat and minor cough added to my fever and headache.
Since I had nowhere to go in Boxing Day anyway, I decided to just wait it out and see how I felt the next day but I’d already decided that I probably actually had covid.
Felt the same the next day, had no LFTs available but I had pretty much self diagnosed myself with covid at this point so I didn’t see the need for a PCR and just decided to isolate anyway.
Since then, I’ve discovered friends who I saw on the 23rd have had symptoms over Xmas and they have had PCR tests confirmed positive and have to isolate till Jan 4th. It’s likely we all got it at the same time.
Myself on the other hand, I now feel fantastic with just a slight tickle in my throat. My plan tomorrow providing I feel as if I hadn’t have had a virus in the first place, is to take some LFTs and if all is well I will stop isolating.
Question is, am I being a dick? I don’t want to isolate longer than I have to tbh and I feel like that although I’m not following the rules, I’m not really breaking any rules either as I’ve never tested positive in the first place.
The grey area is I don’t really know when my symptoms started because of my booster.
Why not ?Over 20k today in ireland. A new record.
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Because it will futher accelerate infections I would have though.Why not ?
We are being told 25% of infections don't test positive until more than 7 days after exposure.Would appreciate some thoughts on this one please! Had a small get together on 28th. Someone who was there tested positive on the morning of the 30th on lateral flow. The gathering was indoors, for several hours. Certainly was near this person (I.e within 2M) for cumulatively at least an hour. That person was exposed to Covid on 27th. I.e that’s when they got it, and subsequently tested positive on 30th. What are my chances of being fecked? I’ve been negative on LFT each day so far. But suppose if I had it, based on the above, I’d remain negative until at some point today or tomorrow.
Thanks. I guess the question really is, how quickly do you go from contracting covid, to then being infectious, to then being positive? I guess there is no one set guaranteed answer, but any advice would be super useful!We are being told 25% of infections don't test positive until more than 7 days after exposure.
Imagine if you increase the exposure people have then besides the usual Christmas stuff.@Wibble Schools are closed since 22nd December here and ases are higher than ever.
We don't know the stats for Omicron. It looks shorter than for Delta but even that's not certain.Thanks. I guess the question really is, how quickly do you go from contracting covid, to then being infectious, to then being positive? I guess there is no one set guaranteed answer, but any advice would be super useful!
The person definitely caught it on 27th since the people they were with on the 27th have also tested positive. Which means it would have to be unless the people there all caught it at a similar time seperately?
Thanks buddy.We don't know the stats for Omicron. It looks shorter than for Delta but even that's not certain.
For risk assessment you could be looking at exposure to infectious timelines something like: 0-24 hours unlikely, 24-48 getting steadily more possible, 48+ very possible.
Countries have done different things but usually by and large have been quite aligned holistically in approach (apart from the odd exception). It seems now though, different countries are taking very different paths.Cases in The Netherlands are slowly going down since we first lockeddown in the evening at the start of december and more completely now. Very weird to me to see the full stadiums in English football form my locked down part of the world. Especially with the soaring cases.