What if every time we tested someone for COVID we tested them for Vitamin D and zinc deficiency? Better yet, what if these tests were made available at government expense (which is to say if we add them to our childrens already astronomical bar tab), proactively?
I don’t get why Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem and Jay Bhattacharya and the other authors of the Great Barrington Declaration have not specifically focused on what I have been calling Nutritional Immunodeficiency. It is so easily corrected.
There may be some ethical or professional guidelines that would violate, but given that people’s lives are at stake, those guidelines would have to be really fucking stupid.
We know about what safe doses are for most people, and even if we erred on the safe side, we could still boost the overall immunity of the world by making people AWARE that this is an issue.
I was talking the other day with an overweight African American man. He and his wife both had COVID. He basically just had no energy for a week, but his wife, who is asthmatic, had serious breathing issues. They almost took her to the hospital, but not quite. Both recovered fine. And we were talking at close distance face to face with no masks, by the way.
I asked him if he took Vitamin D. He said no. He took a lot of zinc–LOTS of zinc he emphasized–and elderberry and some other something.
But as an African American, he already has one major risk factor for D deficiency. Weighing I would guess 50-60 pounds more than he should is a second risk factor. He didn’t seem to want to hear my spiel, so I didn’t give it to him. But AFTER A YEAR should he not know about Vitamin D? There is ZERO evidence for masks or vaccines, but ample and plentiful evidence for D, not just for COVID, but all infectious diseases (as well as mental health and bone density).
But here is my point: EVEN IF, say, Jay Bhattacharya–whose candor I find wonderful–does not want to “practice medicine” by “prescribing” zinc and D, he could STILL tell people:
- you are at higher risk of serious problems if you are deficient in either.
- You can get tested to get PRESCRIBED a dose by a qualified doctor or nutritional consultant.
This whole thing is madness. I know I am Johnny One note, but shit, this is awful.
Here is one backwater website that you could and should take a look at and possibly share: https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html
I ask myself daily: where are the fucking SCIENTISTS? Where are the honest men and women without whom civilization cannot survive? Where are the brave individuals of the sort which enabled us to build this once great nation? I am disgusted and angered by all the putrid cowards I see in every direction. It is shameful, inexcusable.
And I will add that my email from 2008 has been repurposed to say Joe Biden. The points remain. How do we build UP–and I mean morally, which in the main is in my view 100x more important than our technology, even if that very technology makes our moral and intellectual mediocrity vastly more dangerous–when the average citizen swims daily in unconscious ignorance, as buttressed by the certitudes of effective indoctrination and the bullish confidence that they are entitled to vastly more than they have earned, or even tried to earn?
It’s a tough question to answer. All I can say is that persistence prevails when all else fails. That is the most useful motto in the universe. Even if you are trying to love your neighbor, you will need persistence, because he is probably a self important vegan dick who sleeps with his fucking mask on, and who has a chihuahua named Vic.