Just popped in to share some info I picked up.
This first one probably applies to most of us in here, since this is mostly a geriatric thread.
I just watched a debate program with some doctors, and it turns out that cholesterol is an important part of the immune system, apparently the immune system uses enormous amount of cholesterol when fighting infections, especially the "bad" colesterol, so people on statins or other cholesterol lowing meds have a greater risk of dying. This might be one of the reasons elderly patients are dying more than others (basically all elderly are on statins)
Amlopidin, a blood pressure lower, is also suspected to make things worse, one of the side effects of that med is shortness of breath.
All the dead from Wuhan had very low cholesterol levels in their blood.
So, to conclude Do not take anything that lowers your cholesterol levels and stay away from Amlopidin during the pandemic.
Personally I don't use any cholesterol lowers, there is a lot of evidence that the whole idea that it causes blocked arteries is a mistake.
And it also causes muscle pain including heart pain and bad memory, the cells and brain need cholesterol to work properly, apparently 25% of the brain is cholesterol. It also makes you low (mentally) it did that to me, when I went of my statins some 10 years ago I almost got euphoric for a week or so. I was om the max dosis and I had a shitload of side effects, headaches that would last for weeks, runny nose, aches, and the mental thing, I was also slower in reaction, I noticed, when I hit the curb and signs sometimes as I was driving.
The reason why Italy became the European epicenter turns out to be some 60 000 Chinese workers that work in Italian factories in Lombardy, just so they can put the "made in Italy" label on them.
https://spectator.org/coronavirus-the-price-of-luxury/And socialists now call for a united socialist union of Europe
https://www.socialist.net/coronavirus-exposes-the-myth-of-european-unity.htmI think that is it for today, stay safe and make sure your cholesterol is high.
That might fit.
It's also proven nowadays, that cholesterol clogged arteries are resulting from inflammation in the latter, NOT from bad nutrition. That's why cholesterol can only be lowered a little bit by changing eating habits. About 80% of heart attacks result from that inflammations of various causes.
Example: A friend of the family (builder, 38yrs) drove a nail through his upper arm with the nailgun. He isn't the type that wants to see doctors, so he just bandaged it and went on. That buffalo type of guy, if you know what i mean. He had a heart attack a few months later, because the artery near the wound got clogged and when the cluster was released and went to the heart: Boom. Non smoker, non drinker, no history of heart attacks in his family.
Interesting context.
#nohomo 
