Connection between male pattern baldness and severe Covid

[Beakybird]

I read a slew of articles over the summer about this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7373684/

Ever since reading this, I purchased a toupee, and I encourage all bald men to do so. The science is clear.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Damn you are CLEVER!

[Beakybird]

5. They should pass out disposable toupees to men at the supermarket for safety!!

[mr_lebowski]

6. Brilliant!!! nt

[Laffy Kat]

2. Don't go the toupee route!

I'd much rather see/date a bald man than a man in a toupee and I do not know one single woman who feels differently. Embrace the bald.

[Beakybird]

4. Funny. I'm wearing the toupee just for health reasons, but I'm looking for a bald woman. Less dander

[Aristus]

7. I live in an irony-challenged world.

When I was a teenager, my hair was one of the few physical traits of mine the girls actually liked. Back then, my hair was smooth, silky, and baby-fine.

As luck would have it, I started going bald at age twenty-four. I just went with it; no toupées, no combovers. I just went through the world being bald.

This same world, fortunately, is filled with women who find baldness attractive. So I guess things worked out all right...

[Laffy Kat]

11. You're right, at least many of us do.

I once read that bald men generally have higher levels of testosterone than more hirsute men, so maybe there's a pheromonal reason? Who knows.

[Aristus]

12. As long as women flirt with me and rub my bald head, what do I care?

[angstlessk]

14. I have heard

there is a link between bald men and testosterone?

[StClone]

3. Blood type O may offer some protection against COVID-19

https://www.fhcsd.org/blood-type-o-may-offer-some-protection-against-covid-19/

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. My blood type.

Also my brother's blood type, who quickly recovered from Covid while his type-A wife is on a ventilator and went "code blue" twice this morning.

There's many factors other than blood-type, obviously. She caught it first and maybe had a higher initial viral load? She has asthma whereas he doesn't... and so on.

[StClone]

9. So sorry your brother and his wife are going through this

Thank you sharing your challenges and I hope for the best.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Thanks.

Today was the worst news about her so far. It's been ever-changing between very positive and negative updates, but this morning is the most discouraging. The doctors and nurses even assumed she'd soon be released after her blood oxygen raised to 98% a few days ago (after lung aspiration and wearing an oxygen mask), before she was finally placed on a ventilator yesterday. Now this. I'm actually relieved that my family isn't together for Thanksgiving while such a dark cloud loomed over us.

[StClone]

13. This is so hard to deal with and you have my support

Your family has a had a difficult time and your sister-in-law needs all the positives I can send. Be strong for your brother as he knows you are there for him in this difficult time.