Covid-19, Your health and that of your community

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But what else am I gonna do, quarantined with my wife of 40 years?

It could be worse. You could have ended up accidentally quarantined with a mistress!

I have been doing these breathing

exercises.I had to start at 2x speed

and am working my way down 1.75

1.50 1.25 normal speed on video

settings.

This is a video that explains how it

the breathing exercises might help

combat CV.

I'm sorry this is just idiotic. It's like saying you could survive a nuclear bomb by painting your windows white and hiding under a table.The

A certain catchy song from the late 70s is going viral in 2020.

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I have been doing these breathing

exercises.I had to start at 2x speed

and am working my way down 1.75

1.50 1.25 normal speed on video

settings.

This is a video that explains how it

the breathing exercises might help

combat CV.

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Sam, it won't be complete until you take repeated plunges into the cold waters of northern Ontario. I'm sure there's got to be some bodies of water near where you live

(A recent Medcram video was describing studies where alternating hot and cold exposure boosted production of monocytes, killer immune cells - the very thing that is inhibited when infected with Sars-CoV2 )

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Sam, it won't be complete until you take repeated plunges into the cold waters of northern Ontario. I'm sure there's got to be some bodies of water near where you live

(A recent Medcram video was describing studies where alternating hot and cold exposure boosted production of monocytes, killer immune cells - the very thing that is inhibited when infected with Sars-CoV2 )

Saw that video.

The Finns are into the sauna thing, apparently it may factor into their low infection rate?

Hope it’s genetic, as my grandmother was born in Finland, 1898.

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I'm sorry this is just idiotic. It's like saying you could survive a nuclear bomb by painting your windows white and hiding under a table.The

If it even helps a bit why not.

I know the breathing exercises

have expanded my lung capacity.

Can’t see any harm done for anyone

who wanted to try it.

https://www.thebroscientist.co…ientific-critical-review/

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I'm sorry this is just idiotic. It's like saying you could survive a nuclear bomb by painting your windows white and hiding under a table.

Wim Hof claims control over his autonomic nervous system by using his breathing technique*... which I believe, is generally denied as being possible by 'science'.

But there is research into the claims of Himalayan monks, which shows that by using a similar breathing technique they can also maintain core body temperature (and increase peripheral) during exposure to cold:

https://journals.plos.org/plos…1371/journal.pone.0058244

Hof also was tested by some Dutch university hospital and shown to be able to regulate his immune response when injected with a toxin.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/r…/2011/04/110422090203.htm

* Admittedly tricky to perform when in respiratory distress... But ultimately, not completely "idiotic".

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If it even helps a bit why not.

I know the breathing exercises

have expanded my lung capacity.

Can’t see any harm done for anyone

who wanted to try it.

https://www.thebroscientist.co…ientific-critical-review/

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Sam,

I think seems that the Rossi Placebo works so this may work also for some.

Sure nothing wrong with breathing exercises - but touting it as some way of surviving a severe corona virus infection is being somewhat irresponsible don't you think? Do you really believe this would protect you?

Perhaps it could be programmed into a ventilator?

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Do you really believe this would protect you?

no real protection for the virus.

I do us a DODOW to help to get to sleep. Breath in out as the lights change. https://www.amazon.com/Dodow-D…ling-Asleep/dp/B00ZFOB4BK

You don't really need it after you learn the technique.

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Sure nothing wrong with breathing exercises - but touting it as some way of surviving a severe corona virus infection is being somewhat irresponsible don't you think? Do you really believe this would protect you?

No But like a hand sanitizer it might

save my life.

Watching “China In Focus”

Apparently some previously infected in China have been re-infected?

Has anyone seen reliable evidence of this elsewhere?

Also, # of infected and dead seem to be drastically under reported, possibly by orders of magnitude. I don’t expect anyone will ever know the real #’s.

A Scientist different view on CV situation.

These vitamin remedies only work if you are slightly deficient in one of another which is known to occur especially for D in the winter in northern climes. I recommended taking a Ca plus Vit D plus C and a multivitamin all cheaply available from supermarkets. Should cover any vitamin deficiencies from living on pizzas, kebabs and burgers or vegan diets for that matter.

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These vitamin remedies only work if you are slightly deficient

I think that ensuring Vitamins and maximising immune resistance by sleep reducing stress is beneficial..

but faced with a bat virus that can overwhelm most mammalian immune systems.. except superbats

I prefer social distancing until I am sure there is a vaccine or at least some assurance of 80% effective hospital treatment.

I feel sorrow for those ferrets in the control group for the vaccine.trial. even though I don't like ferrets..

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I think that ensuring Vitamins and maximising immune resistance by sleep reducing stress is beneficial..

but faced with a bat virus that can overwhelm most mammalian immune systems.. except superbats

I prefer social distancing until I am sure there is a vaccine or at least some assurance of 80% effective hospital treatment.

I feel sorrow for those ferrets in the control group for the vaccine.trial. even though I don't like ferrets..

We need batman, robin, and .... Batgirl to deal with this!

Scary things - ultra-virulent bat virusses.

But, to be fair, 40% of people who are infected have minimal symptoms so their immune systems seem good enough at getting rid of it before anything bad happens. We just need enough anti-bat-spray to be one of the 40%.