Joseph Allen, Harvard professor of exposure assessment, says there’s a safe path for return to air travel in the age of COVID-19, in large part because cabin air gets circulated and filtered like a medical-grade isolation room under CDC guidelines.
Read Joseph Allen’s piece in the Washington Post: “”
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20 replies on “Air Travel Not Riskier: Cabin Air Treated Like Medical-Grade Isolation Room”
Question, If nobody had heard of Covid 19, would it still be a pandemic?
Yes! Help these people who are susceptible to the virus build up their immune system!
Attack the virus situation from the preventative perspective, not just the defensive perspective.
Also, what gives me hope is all the treatments, whatever you want to call them, that involve either cheap prescription drugs (think, Trump pills) and/or cheap non-prescription vitamins and other supplements (e.g. zinc, Vit D).
It’s not too late for people to use them to ward off the virus, it’s not too late even if they catch it early… it may not even be too late if the virus has gotten a good hold on them, although here it’s really a war to determine who wins.
The problem is the current (as of, before this crisis) medical perspective of using prescription drugs, costly procedures, etc, before thinking of more cheap solutions.
It sure seems to me that how this virus kills is by increasing inflammation in the body, based on what I’ve read. If you have an inflammation-based disease (heart/diabetes/lungs, many others), then the virus makes you more sick and that’s what kills you (even as the virus is dying in the body). This is why people who have existing (or even unknown-to-them) conditions are at risk (there are kids with diabetes, for example, so they would be – and many older folks have a condition that is fueled by inflammation). This is why prednisone/steroids/anti-malaria drugs help – because they reduce inflammation in the body. This is why those who have low levels of vitamin D (a known anti-inflammatory) are at more risk. It all makes sense to me.
I agree with you, except about “Vitamin” D. It is not a vitamin, it is a seco-steroid that functions more like a hormone and has profound implications on immune system function. Almost everything the media tells us about it is exactly backwards.
Inflammation (aka cytokine storm) can overwhelm the body, and steroids can help with that when it is acute. But in almost every other instance, depressing the immune system (with any kind of “anti-inflammatory”) is bad. It makes us “feel better” because it depresses the immune system. Thus anti-inflammatories are exactly the opposite of what you should be taking if you are sick, because they give the illness a chance to get ahead of your immune system. In the short term, that’s no big deal, it might mean that you have fewer or lower-level symptoms over a longer period of time (or the symptoms disappear altogether), but over the long term, it weakens your immune system.
Inflammation–i.e., evidence that your immune system is functioning properly–is not the enemy unless it gets out of control (runaway or storm). Out-of-control inflammation gets mislabelled as “auto-immune” disease because of the mistaken idea that the body’s immune system is attacking non-diseased tissues. It turns out that the tissues are diseased. We have reservoirs of persistent viruses and L-form (cell-wall-deficient) bacteria all throughout our bodies, and the immune system can get revved up to go after them. This is what the research has been showing for the last 15-20 years, but practical medicine, much less media understanding, has yet to catch up.
Thanks for that enlightening perspective! Explains a lot, and not just of this virus!
So the link did not come through.
Look up on YT – George Carlin Germs.
We watched this the other day. George Carlin ( sensitivity warning for those who don’t approve of “naughty” words)
I am 74 years old and am out there living life. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that there is a big difference between breathing and living–and I want to do the latter as long as the Lord Jesus wants me to do so. And when HE says, “Time’s up,” I will leave for my eternal home. Living by and in fear is not the way we were built, and it is not His way. He says that He did not give us a spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind. That is how I want to live!
Ma’am, I could not agree more.
Regarding why this virus affects the old disproportionately, but not the young: There is evidence that this virus does something to re-activate persistent viruses that you already have, but that until now your immune system was keeping under control. Older people have more persistent virus reservoirs than younger people because they’ve been alive longer. Combine that with co-morbidities (which also affect the immune system) and you end up with a cytokine storm that completely overwhelms an older person’s body.
While that sounds scary, it’s not completely unprecedented. We know a lot more about how viruses work now than we did before the Wuhan virus, and we knew a lot more about how viruses work in Fall 2019 than we did before HIV1. What this crisis has done has made it okay to re-examine everything and find antiviral therapies that were lurking in the medical literature but not widely known, much less practiced. The traditional belief that “there’s no treatment for viruses, only for bacterial infections,” for example, is demonstrably untrue according to decades of research and literature. This experience will change how we think about and treat viruses from now on. This paradigm-shift will have tremendous benefits over time, but even in the short term, the focus on finding extant therapies that also happen to be antiviral means that we suddenly have a whole basketful of treatments available to treat not just the Wuhan virus, but lots of viruses, perhaps all of them, right now, today. And we didn’t have that six months ago.
I have been studying all of this in detail because I am in a high-risk group, having been ill for a long time, and it’s also possible I caught the Wuhan virus in March. (Will take an antibody test next month.) Under guidance from a research group whose protocol I have been following for years, I am experimenting with several therapies that are working, and hope to be able to try some others later this year if I can convince my doctor to prescribe them. This has given me more hope of achieving real wellness than I have had in a very, very long time.
Unfortunately, based on Fauci, the media, et.al. and their treatment of Hydroxychloroquine, it is quite unlikely that “antiviral therapies that were lurking in the medical literature but not widely known” are going to be given a fair hearing. Apparently it puts a lot more money into the “experts” pockets if it’s a new drug or vaccine than using some old remedy.
That is a very good point. Fortunately, while the media have been making up facts and promoting an incoherent narrative, doctors are ignoring the hoopla and getting on with prescribing things like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. They are reading the literature and talking to each other, not listening to the media, which couldn’t correctly report study findings even if they understood them.
Here’s an excerpt from an article at the Daily Wire about hydroxychloroquine, for example:
I don’t dispute that a lot of the so-called “experts” have financial interests in promoting vaccines (which, as they are currently designed, are not the pinnacle of medicine they are claimed to be) and new drugs. But few of those “experts” are actually treating patients in the real world. Those doctors who are treating real people understand enough about real-world data to know that keeping people from ever having to go into the hospital, and once there keeping them from needing a ventilator, is the only way to save lives.
Granted, I’m generalizing. But please don’t assume that what’s being spouted by “experts” and reported in the media in any way reflects how medical doctors themselves are thinking or behaving.
I have never sat next to someone that sometime in the flight we have not come in contact. Much less touched the same arm rest.
You get just as closely packed in all the following: planes, subways, trains and busses. And the plane filters the air. The others do not. As to being suspect because it is the Washington Post: Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every so often.
Consider the source: Washington Post. Can you really trust ANYTHING they publish? For me, if they say today is Tuesday, I would have to check several other sources for verification. I simply don’t trust anything published by the MSM to be anything but propaganda.
In the past, EVERY time I traveled by air during flu season, I caught the flu. It very often turned into bronchial pneumonia requiring extended treatment with antibiotics. I am now 83 and exceedingly vulnerable to Covid-19. It is questionable that I would survive such an experience.
As a consequence, I don’t travel by any means that require I travel with other individuals in the same sealed environment – no matter how well ventilated. No plains, trains, ships, busses, nor any other mass transportation – public or private. Fly if you wish but don’t ask me to fly and especially don’t force me to fly.
As far as I am concerned:
CNN = Communist News Network
ABC = All About Communism
NBC = Nothing But Communism
CBS = Communist Broadcasting System
PBS = Public financed BS
I consider anything they publish with a huge number of grains of salt. Since I am on a low salt diet, I don’t get anything but smoke from their talking heads. the smoke indicates something happened but not what happened nor why it happened.
PBS is the best!!
Then you pay for it! Do NOT demand that I pay any part of its BS!
Lionel, I meant that your nickname is the best! I can’t STAND PBS,
Then we agree. 😊 My apologies for misunderstanding. If I could take back my thumbs down I would.
No problem. I wasn’t clear. As far as I can tell, you and I are always on the same page!
LOL on your broadcasting acronyms!
When I was working (since retired), there was one older guy that specialized in re-inventing acronyms that were particularly funny (and also pertinent to the work situation).
I’d tell you some, but it’s 1) more an inside joke of that workplace; and 2) we were DOD, so I’d have to metaphorically shoot you afterwards!