COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Tricky_Trev said:
We don’t have the masks to do ‘all’. Where are the masks coming from? Even the frontline doesn’t have enough. They’re not going to distribute them to the public when they could be on the front line. Putting cloth over your mouth and nose isn’t the absolute best scenario, but it will be better than nothing if you have it. You’d be less likely to spread it with something over your face than nothing at all.
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Masks are NOT required. Just cloth - a scarf or bandana to catch the aerosol droplets that YOU breath out, cough out, sneeze out or emit when you talk.
This will much reduce virus accumulating on surfaces or floating through the air.
It is so obvious I totally fail to understand Whitty and his boys in SAGE can't see it.
Of course you need to wash your hands as well.
 
Gelsons Dad said:
I have a theory about this as a life long smoker and aviator. One of the biggest threats to crew is the risk of insipid hypoxia due to a slow depressurisation. The problem with hypoxia is you don't recognise it due to impaired cognition. You slowly lose your ability to recognise what is going on. As can be seen in the article published a few pages back in this thread and as I've read in several reports, covid leads to very low oxygen levels too. Hypoxia!.
Many years ago in my military days we would go the the Aviation Medicine Training Centre every few years for decompression training amongst other things and one of the snippets I picked up was that smokers (healthy ones) are slightly less susceptible to hypoxia as initially the lungs adapt to slightly lower oxygen partial pressure of an inhaled breath through a cigarette . It stuck with me for obvious reasons.

I wonder If this is the real reason rather than the nicotine?
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So we should all be smoking weed? Not only will it give us a better chance if we catch the virus, but it will also keep us all in our houses playing the xbox, eating take aways (so keeping the economy running) and it will be good for our mental health as we will be happy.
 
Pfizer have tested Xeljanz ( approved rheumatoid arthritis drug) in Italy to see whether it has had any benefits on patients there. They are also working with Biontech a German company to possibly develop a vaccine based on emerging gene based technology. They are completing clinical trials as early as end of March with four different vaccines simultaneously
 
Gelsons Dad said:
I have a theory about this as a life long smoker and aviator. One of the biggest threats to crew is the risk of insipid hypoxia due to a slow depressurisation. The problem with hypoxia is you don't recognise it due to impaired cognition. You slowly lose your ability to recognise what is going on. As can be seen in the article published a few pages back in this thread and as I've read in several reports, covid leads to very low oxygen levels too. Hypoxia!.
Many years ago in my military days we would go the the Aviation Medicine Training Centre every few years for decompression training amongst other things and one of the snippets I picked up was that smokers (healthy ones) are slightly less susceptible to hypoxia as initially the lungs adapt to slightly lower oxygen partial pressure of an inhaled breath through a cigarette . It stuck with me for obvious reasons.

I wonder If this is the real reason rather than the nicotine?
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That is a good theory and possibly correct.
 
shackattack said:
Pfizer have tested Xeljanz ( approved rheumatoid arthritis drug) in Italy to see whether it has had any benefits on patients there. They are also working with Biontech a German company to possibly develop a vaccine based on emerging gene based technology. They are completing clinical trials as early as end of March with four different vaccines simultaneously
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What happened then? Haha.
 
Gelsons Dad said:
I have a theory about this as a life long smoker and aviator. One of the biggest threats to crew is the risk of insipid hypoxia due to a slow depressurisation. The problem with hypoxia is you don't recognise it due to impaired cognition. You slowly lose your ability to recognise what is going on. As can be seen in the article published a few pages back in this thread and as I've read in several reports, covid leads to very low oxygen levels too. Hypoxia!.
Many years ago in my military days we would go the the Aviation Medicine Training Centre every few years for decompression training amongst other things and one of the snippets I picked up was that smokers (healthy ones) are slightly less susceptible to hypoxia as initially the lungs adapt to slightly lower oxygen partial pressure of an inhaled breath through a cigarette . It stuck with me for obvious reasons.

I wonder If this is the real reason rather than the nicotine?
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You're more likely to be right I think.
 
Gelsons Dad said:
I have a theory about this as a life long smoker and aviator. One of the biggest threats to crew is the risk of insipid hypoxia due to a slow depressurisation. The problem with hypoxia is you don't recognise it due to impaired cognition. You slowly lose your ability to recognise what is going on. As can be seen in the article published a few pages back in this thread and as I've read in several reports, covid leads to very low oxygen levels too. Hypoxia!.
Many years ago in my military days we would go the the Aviation Medicine Training Centre every few years for decompression training amongst other things and one of the snippets I picked up was that smokers (healthy ones) are slightly less susceptible to hypoxia as initially the lungs adapt to slightly lower oxygen partial pressure of an inhaled breath through a cigarette . It stuck with me for obvious reasons.

I wonder If this is the real reason rather than the nicotine?
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As a smoker I like this - maybe they can consider changing those pictures on the front of cigarette packets to one with a rainbow for supporting your NHS
 
Now we’ve “peaked” so to say, whats the chances off lockdown being lifted 7th may? or do we get one more to be safe rather than sorry?
 
Nightmare Walking said:
So we should all be smoking weed? Not only will it give us a better chance if we catch the virus, but it will also keep us all in our houses playing the xbox, eating take aways (so keeping the economy running) and it will be good for our mental health as we will be happy.
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It would be truly funny if it turned out that everyone had to smoke at least 3 good joints a day in order to ward off the virus.

Imagine the government press conference when they announced it. The entire population must remain stoned at all times until a vaccine is found.
 
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