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Elizabeth Hanson's avatar

You did a brilliant job on this essay. The charts said it all. I really like how you started the essay, recognizing the relationship you have with your 3 friends. I wonder how people who stand by the crucial importance of wearing mask would / will justify the charts of countries with high mask adherence. I wish masks worked. I think they don't because Covid spreads in aerosols... in the air and every time we breath in and out we may become infected... I think the gov't should be pushing the need to lose weight and protecting the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions... and vitamin D3.. We should have been more like Sweden... and living freely now as they are in Denmark.

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Joshua Hamer's avatar

Thank you as always Elizabeth… I have a couple of pieces I’m putting together in my head. One is on what will really help you in a fight against COVID, namely nutrition, D3, maybe zinc. The other is on what the 2019 WHO pandemic guidelines were and where they were implemented. That’s going to be a pretty big research piece.

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Elizabeth Hanson's avatar

Great!! Remember... obesity is a friend of covid death too. Also, I ran across this list of factoids which might be helpful... https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/

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Joshua Hamer's avatar

Oh, I’m all over that part of the story. Kind of bewildered that wasn’t part of the public campaign from the beginning… but I have thoughts about that as well. 😉

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