Exciting news this week. After one year and ten months my employer is dropping their mask mandate effective Tuesday, March 8th, finally catching up to the city, county, and state in doing so. Therefore this will be my last post talking (specifically) about COVID unless something dramatic happens. With that said I'll end this post with a screencap that perfectly encapsulates my thoughts and feelings on everything that has happened in the last two years.
"A study published on Thursday in the research journal PLOS One found that about half of people who were vitamin D deficient before getting COVID-19 developed severe illness, compared to less than 10% of people who had sufficient levels of the vitamin in their blood."
This aligns with something that I've long begun to suspect: that "cold season" isn't triggered by people being in close proximity to each other (people work in close proximity year round so why wouldn't they get sick year round?) but rather a deficiency in vitamin D. My theory is that viruses that cause colds are usually benign passenger viruses that cause illness when vitamin D levels drop during winter.
"Dr. Amiel Dror, a study author and physician at the Galilee Medical Center, said of the findings, "We found it remarkable, and striking, to see the difference in the chances of becoming a severe patient when you are lacking in vitamin D compared to when you're not," The Times of Israel reported."
"The findings come from 253 people admitted to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israel, between April 7, 2020, and February 4, 2021 — a period before the highly infectious Omicron variant emerged."
"Dror said the findings suggested that vitamin D helped bolster the immune system to deal with viruses that attack the respiratory system."
Turns out that placing everyone under house arrest for a year while the media promotes obesity and drug use was the worst thing we could have done. It's something to consider.
