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lapfog_1

(29,191 posts)
2. We need a vaccine soon
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 11:12 PM
Sep 2020

to protect ourselves from stupid people... and to protect stupid people from each other.

My girlfriend is currently in Romania... her daughter is going back to school in a week (she is online at the moment), the class size is only 12 classmates, mask wearing is mandatory, sessions are half day only (no food service at school). I got them N95 masks to wear for both the daughter... and her mom daughter wears one at school, drops in the trash when she gets home, mom puts hers on indoors when her daughter gets home and can only take it off once she is in her bedroom at night. They are both on 3000 IU of Vitamin D plus vitamin C and a zinc tablet once a day.

She will drive her daughter to school and pick her up every day (no public transportation).

The case load there has picked up dramatically from earlier this summer... 150 a day back then to 1400 a day just now.

Thousands of Romanians were working in northern Italy last spring when the virus spread unchecked through the region... and they were all sent back to Romania.

I hope the vaccine is ready for them early next year. I so want this horrible year to be over.

If they get sick from Covid-19, I have told my girlfriend to go to a doctor and get a dose of calcitriol and Dexamethasone, and if they get worse, try very hard to get remdesivir.

These three drugs have all had decent sized studies to justify using them against Covid-19.

The first two are well known and inexpensive with little to no side effects.

Wearing a mask also reduces the initial virus load... which gives your body a fighting chance to develop an immune response naturally... and without the overreaction that is often more deadly than the virus.


Hoo boy soothsayer Sep 2020 #1
We need a vaccine soon lapfog_1 Sep 2020 #2
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