Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by superquag

This is not new, one solid theory is the lack of "sun" in blighty especially at this time of the year.. you know, that bright ball of light and warmth that seems to ascend up one side of the sky...and pass over...and goes down t'other side....
Poms admire paintings and pictures of it...

Seriously, vitamin D deficiency is a 'thing' in the northern lattitudes, and when combined with certain ethnic groups who wear total clothing cover... they don't stand a chance of getting DOUBLE + the exposure a fair skin Celt/Norman/Saxon needs.

vit D is required for a fully performing immune system, (as is C and zinc) your first and best line of defence against bugs & virus pathogens.
You can normally get all the D you need from 5 to 15 minutes exposure, ideally around mid-day. Or, 1000 to 5,000IU in a supplement. Natural is preferred.

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You dont get vit D from the sun, the sun only triggers the responce to it from some one who has spent a life time in the sun with heaps of exposure who also has lack vit D and needd to take specially prepared suplements.
cheers
blaze

Also, dark-skinned people get sunburnt just like fair skinned people, its just the darker pigment makes the sunburn harder to see.

Originally Posted by superquag

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You can normally get all the D you need from 5 to 15 minutes exposure,
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Several years ago there was some discussion about whether it was better to get the necessary exposure over a short period of time over a large area of skin as opposed to a lot of sun on a little bit of skin.

That prompted a woman to ask (tongue in cheek presumably) via what used to be Column 8 in the SMH, if that meant she should hang out her washing in the nude.

A man responded in the following day's Column 8 saying that in order to give the right answer, he first needed to know where she lived and at what time she planned to hang out her washing.

Originally Posted by vnx205

Several years ago there was some discussion about whether it was better to get the necessary exposure over a short period of time over a large area of skin as opposed to a lot of sun on a little bit of skin.

That prompted a woman to ask (tongue in cheek presumably) via what used to be Column 8 in the SMH, if that meant she should hang out her washing in the nude.

A man responded in the following day's Column 8 saying that in order to give the right answer, he first needed to know where she lived and at what time she planned to hang out her washing.

And her height...and weight...

Originally Posted by bblaze

You dont get vit D from the sun, the sun only triggers the responce to it from some one who has spent a life time in the sun with heaps of exposure who also has lack vit D and needd to take specially prepared suplements.
cheers
blaze

Proponents of sunlight / Vit D3 seem to understand that well, nearly every one I've looked at emphasises personal 'Testing' before dosing. - They are aware of w i d e individual differences.

Your exposure, hat or hatles? arms only? legs? Torso ? The deeper you tan, the more exposure needed to get the benefit.

Interestingly, Dr Fauci, that "COVID-19 Expert..." in times past was a supporter of both Vit C (he takes 1,000mg / day) and Vit D3 for the immune system support. But since he's fallen in love with 'Vaccines', he's been very quiet on them or anything that's *not* a vaccine or expen$ive drug...

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Hope so.
So I can't give you Covid-19 but I do have a cold available if there are any takers. Be like those dumb Americans holding Covid parties to deliberately infect themselves - how dumb is that!

Pretty dumb I reckon. What if they are one of the "lucky" ones that can't be saved? IDJITS!

Little to do with vitaman d , more to do with this;

LONDON — Black people in England and Wales are twice as likely to die from the coronavirus as white people, even accounting for differences in class and in some underlying health measures, according to official figures released on Thursday, laying bare an extraordinary gap in the toll of the coronavirus.


The analysis, conducted by Britain’s Office of National Statistics, found that longstanding differences in wealth, education, living arrangements and self-reported health could explain a portion of the outsized impact of the virus on racial and ethnic minorities.


But not all of it. The number of black and South Asian people working in public-facing jobs and living with conditions that increase vulnerability to the coronavirus, like obesity, hypertension and diabetes, may account for other parts of the elevated risk, researchers said.


“The underlying health and social disparities that drive inequality in health and life expectancy have been there all along, and this virus has just laid them bare,” said Dr. Riyaz Patel, an associate professor of cardiology at University College London. “This pandemic has not been the great leveler. It’s been the great magnifier, as it were.”

But since he's fallen in love with 'Vaccines',

Not a great name to be called at the Mo is it? Yeah Ok, I get it SQ.