Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Why to take Vitamin D
https://youtu.be/OQzTE18WcNI

Can you post the actual reasons?

Paracetamol - because it lowers your fever, the pyretic (fever) response of your body which increases leucocytes, your antibody response. Your anti-inflamatory response is also improved with fever

Saunas are good https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916915/pdf/jhk-39-127.pdf

Vitamin D - optimises your immunity
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirms-vitamin-d-protects-against-cold-and-flu/

Says science

Ffs.
I'm going to say this quite rudely and quite strongly:
Fuck off with your bollocks now.

Hmmm
So these suggestions are harmful?
BTW I appreciate your bluntness

Actuaries take on the health and life expectency of those passing away to Covid:
https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1249366217204338688

So these suggestions are harmful?

It can be. Like saying wear a helmet because it will save you from getting killed.

it will

We all know helmets stop corona, but they fuck up your hair.

Much as I don't like, or wear helmets I really don't think wearing one is harmful physically

I do believe that

1. Fever is the body's response to viral or bacterial infection, and increases antibody defence. So paracetamol, while reducing the symptoms of a temperature, doesn't help in defending against viral attack. Better to live with a higher temperature

2. Vitamin D helps optimise your immunity.

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

If I took a load of vitamin D I'd feel healthier and more likely to take risks around covid19, I'd subconsciously wash my hands less and lick more people with coughs.

"Sauna party" eh? Keys in a bowl, wink wink...

There´s a massive gulf between what people in Russia and Finland (banya/sauna is Russian and Finland was until fairly recently a Russian province) get up to in a hot room and what folks in other countries do in a pathetic lukewarm cabin. It´s just too hot (I prefer about 100 degrees C) to shag in a proper sauna. Besides, just about every home in Finland has one, and it´s not unusual for the whole family to get in at the same time. It´s just a very hot bathroom. My father was born in one in the 1950s because the nearest hospital was a three-hour whitewater boat trip away.

I´ve never been to a shagfest sauna party, even in my student days: https://www.warmtimber.com/blog/culture/a-sauna-party-whats-that/
I have however been to a student sauna party and shagged laterz.

Finnish business leaders and politicians often have meetings in saunas and give interviews in them. I´ve been to some of those, too. It´s striking how people are incapable of talking shite when their packed nekkid into a hot steamy wooden box.

csb bro

I agree. This is my understanding.

csb

Had to look that up...

Saunas are nice, some sunlight is good for you, paracetamol represses the body’s response to infection. Are these relevant? (I haven’t watched the videos).

Better to live with a higher temperature

Until it isn’t.

Can we have a masks/helmets Covid-19 circlewank subforum now before it´s too late. There´s just so much common ground to cover. Here´s a Canuckistani reporter giving some sensible shopping advice, only to be shouted down by the maskologists, just like any image of a bare-headed cyclist is met with outrage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLufQBKrLjw&t=77s

"Hey, Jason. Thank you." cringe

That grocery store is behind my brother-in-law's place. Been there many times. Must remember to thank Jason whenever this comes to an end. #csb

cringe

Yeah that bit was painful to watch.

Edit: so it´s true? You people all know each other. Who is AvE then? ;)

Better to live with a higher temperature

Until it isn’t.

Although I'm reminded of some of the recent(ish) advice about treating a fever in babies and children. The suggestion is parents over treat and for a moderate fever where the child isn't upset you don't need to treat. It was all over the news but at the moment the only thing I can find is https://www.medicinesforchildren.org.uk/news/do-i-need-treat-my-child%E2%80%99s-fever

I know that as an adult I'll sometimes take paracetamol to lower my temperature because I've got commitments that I can't or don't want to drop when really I should just go to bed and sleep it off.

You shouldn't knock the placebo effect of paracetamol / calpol either.

We have a bottle of homemade paracetomol-free placebo calpol that works wonders in reducing the symtpoms of self-limiting conditons.

Odd question and hopefully this is the best place to ask!

I've got to travel to London tomorrow (medical for stem cell donation, so can't really give it a miss)

If there anywhere near Marelybone that is doing hot food for collection? Will be a long day and will fancy some propper food before a 3 hour drive home.

Just Eat/Deliveroo etc will be operational but I have no idea if they would deliver to a car rather than an address, but I guess you could just give the address you're parked outside and intercept it from the rider when they turn up...

Maybe they deliver to the hospital?