Again it's a "correlation"
but skin colour correlates inversely with latitude very well. As far as I know nobody has presented a better reason than D3 synthesis.
That does not totally hold water but as far as I understand it is not proven upto medicinal standard, that is a different thing. The way medicinal tests handle statistics does not withstand strict scrutiny anyway. "The test is successful if no more than 50% has to be thrown away to prove the point."
They also forget that even if only gives some help it is very safe, the acute toxicity limit is huge. So there is no hurt in recommending it.
I got rid of a fairly mild case of psoriasis with it. Took a year but again the correlation is so high that one might suspect causality. To be effective it looks like greater than basic recommended amounts are needed. With those comes that additionally some Mg and vitamin K2 is a good idea.
I manage my eczema/allergic rashes/aching joints with a mix of D3/K2, a low-inflammatory diet and pine tar/birch tar soap and ointment. It works- and has taken me several years to find this combination. Up until then, I'd had an extremely intractable and painful large patch of eczema-type rash on my left foot which was often crackes and sore, and which could at times inhibit walking..... wasn't the only patch but was the worst one.... steroid creams didn't work either..... But a few months of this regime sorted it.
If I forget the D3/K2 for a few days, I see an "indicator" patch of largely latent rash on a knuckle of my left hand start to flare up....
All science is 'political'. Studies, research, publications can only be done with funding; all funding carries an agenda. Whatever side of a story you are reading, there is always a third truth
The "politics" can also be small-p politics where something is done to enhance career prospects. As a researcher, your career is heavily dependant on doing enough published papers, creating an incentive for quantity not quality of papers. There's also talk of a "reproducability crisis" though where findings of published papers cannot be replicated. Cochrane studies are probably the place to go to get a proper perspective of the published research on something.
I refused to take the vaccine due to it being rushed through to market so quickly without being properly tested over a suitably long time-frame that would have been necessary to determine what the long term side-effects are. Especially when you consider it worked using a totally new and previously unused mRNA technology which works in a totally different way to how all previous vaccines did before 2020.
No way under any circumstances was I going to put something so experimental and untested as mRNA into my body without there being several years of comprehensive long term side-effect data to back up the safety claims that were being made about it at the time. My resolution was absolutely rock solid and unbreakable regarding this.
This does not mean that I as antisocial in any way though. I was always very respectful of others and was extremely careful to follow social distancing and all of the other rules to the absolute T at all times. More carefully than the majority of vaccinated people did in fact. At least for the first couple of years or more until after the virus mutated several times and naturally became less dangerous. I also had respect for how potentially dangerous it could be too. Particularly the early strains at the beginning.
In late December of 2019 a bad virus was doing the rounds where I work. We will never know for certain but I suspect that this might have actually been an early strain of covid-19 that we had (there is now conclusive proof found using saved blood samples that were taken from the cadavers of people who died in December of 2019 which shows that Covid-19 was already present in parts of the UK shortly before January 2020). Assuming that what we had at work in 2019 was really covid-19 and not something else then I can attest that it was a particularly nasty virus. One of the worst I've ever had in my life in fact and I can see how something as severe as that could easily kill someone who was elderly or weak. Luckily for us we were all reasonably healthy and had good immune systems so we just felt really bad (and I do mean REALLY bad) for a week or two before recovering naturally.
Yup, it went around our sector too. A whole bunch of us were very ill over the Christmas and into the January for about 4-6 weeks. I had the worst fever dreams I'd had since I had measles as a child, and was struggling to breathe for a couple of weeks.
Just was well we'd had it, as we were in an "essential sector" so when everyone was locked down, those of us on contract were in doing the essential work...... lodging in caravans/campervans in the car park and even in a converted conference room, as the hotels were closed.... whilst the employees stayed home funded by govt. Then when lockdown ended, all of those of us contract staff who had kept things going were laid off as we were no longer "affordable" (= govt not paying for us). I learnt a hard lesson that week.......
I think if you made it through with a sense of respect and decency towards others, then that says a lot. It's important to be able to ride out storms like that without losing your integrity.
Likewise, I was always respectful of people's position and never forced my opinion on others. I was always cautious about making people uncomfortable at such a time. I was also mindful to avoid any 'them' vs 'us' polarising, tribalistic nonsense that seemed so prevalent and so easy to fall into.
To be honest, I never saw it as any of my business what medical decision people made, it's a personal choice all the way. Just as my decision was always my own.
However, I am acutely aware how hard it was for a lot of people who didn't get the shot. It was a fierce backlash, and those who stood firm in the face of it do have my respect.
This is how it should have been. I was dismayed though to see the polarisation and demonisation going on.... especially if someone didn't toe the line. Even not being out doing the sacred ritual of bashing pots for the NHS
was seen in some circles as deviant......
Yeah, I think we are in agreement on that?
To be clear, I never took the 'vaccine' and was all too aware how many people would see me refused access to medical care, refused employment and have me forced into compliance because of my choice.
I saw people bullied into having it by family members, I also saw people disown members of their family for not having it. Mass fear is a powerful thing, and it was a hard lesson to see how it took hold of so many people and degraded them.
Both sides of that fence behaved badly in the extremes, of course. But as far as I recall, only one side talked about forced compliance, taking away people's access to medical care, removing their children from the education system and generally stripping away their rights until they bent the knee.
I'm not bitter about it, at all, and I understand that people do crazy things when they are scared. But, at the same time, I can't just forget about it and sweep it under the rug. It should be acknowledged.
Indeed. I had the first set of jabs but none after that for what I felt was sensible reasons. But I felt it circumspect to never speak about my choice.
This was the worrying thing. Fear created a regime where dissenters became dehumanised. In spite of the veneer of modernity, we are still very close to the historical rule by mob emotion.....
Fully agree with you on that. I think you're spot on Chris.
Apologies for the reference to 'sides' on my previous post, by the way. It was a bit of a lazy/convenient way of painting the picture on my part. I'm very much against dividing people up into 'us' and 'them' type scenarios. Just talking to people (as you've often pointed out) shows that we are all usually just looking to do the best we can by our families and by each other.
But, yes your right. It's bloody incessant, are you pro-this or anti-that? Abortions, vaccines... do you love Donald Trump or despise him? Israel or Palestine? Brexit? Left-wing or Right-wing? No nuance please, just pick a side.
This is why I always value open debate and become concerned when I see that come under threat. Often, all it takes is a conversation to blow these artificially created divisions to pieces. They don't stand up to scrutiny and crumble as soon as they are questioned.
It doesn't matter to me whether or not you had a vaccine, who you vote for, where you're from, or any of it. I'd sit around the campfire with you whenever.
This is spot on...... I have largy given up watching news media because they don't cover nuance.... just promote a tribal approach.
No need for the apology, I knew what you were getting at.
It’s a relentless onslaught. How on Earth are we supposed to be fully educated on, or even have a thoughtful opinion on all these things? You and I can’t solve Gaza, Brexit, Gender, Trump, Immigration and so on and so on. But it sure is convenient for some that we fight about it, distracting us from those who pillage the environment, our rights, our freedoms and even our ability to find the truth.
I’m so completely done with it. My stand against it is that I refuse to be set against my fellow human unless they directly show me that they want to hurt me.
Likewise it’d be a pleasure to sit around a campfire with you, who I am supposed to apparently hate for making a personal choice about your own healthcare. The glow of the campfire burns all that nonsense away.
I was reminiscing recenty with someone of my age and we were reflecting that there was a time not so very long ago when we could sit around the table over a meal (or around a campfire) and discuss things like this, seeing the nuances, discussing the different perspectives without ceasing to be friends, without brandign the peson as "evil" because they held a different view from us. We could each respect that the other had a different view and see all the shades of grey that real-life situations always contain- and remain friends.
That polarising of pretty much everything into a dualistic "good vs evil" theology is a trend that I believe was accelerated and brought to fruition by the COVID response. It's not a legacy that I welcome, and I hope that there's still enough people about who can sit around the campfire, discuss different perspectives but still remain friends.
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