Brain-picking and brain-storming science on coping with the COVID-19 virus and pandemic. Routinely updated. Has click-on audio link to Nobel MD's interview on COVID-19.
In paraphrase of a Nobel laureate MD-epidemiologist, Devra Davis, of the Environmental Health Trust, lecturing on KPFA radio, during the second segment of the Flash Points program, on this subject on 03-18-2020, hyperlink at https://www.reddit.com/user/LordProphet/draft/fe636af4-6cae-11ea-8ad5-4296ea72963b: Zinc nutritional supplements [preferably capsules or lozenges (30 or 50 milligrams of zinc per unit, being a capsule, pill, etc., in my speculation)], reputed antivirals and immune-system boosters, ingested while reclined or at bedtime, might aid the body in preventing or fighting a COVID-19 infection, a rhino-respiratory system attack-virus -- an aid; not a cure. Dr. Devra Davis, MD, also cites an apparently verified anecdotal account of a near-death COVID-19-stricken hospital patient who made a full health recovery after medically being administered massive doses of medically controversial and therapeutically dubious vitamin C*, which the patient and her family implored be administered to her as a last-resort try to save her life. Health risk factors, such as preexisting heart, respiratory or lung, diabetic, smoking, unsanitary, unhygienic or toxic behavior or environments, or refractory psychological depression issues, make the affected persons most vulnerable to the ravages of COVID-19 regardless of age or the potential mitigating effects of intervention therapies.
(She made an error in fully naming COVID-19's loose, less potent respiratory-infection-virus-relative SARS, whose correct name is "Severe Acute Respiratory [System Sickness] Syndrome" and not South Asian Respiratory Syndrome. All humans make errors, even humanity's preeminent genius Albert Einstein, and so do the best of machines. I often make dyslexic-related and wrong-recall writing errors.)
Considerations of mine, a non-medical person: Wrapping/bundling cannabis leaf in facial tissue, that is secured as closed with Scotch tape. similar tape, or one or more rubber bands, and regularly nasally or orally deeply inhaling from it and then exhaling may be therapeutic for the respiratory system in preventing the COVID-19 virus from shutting down the lungs and respiratory system that thereby causes death for a so susceptible COVID-19 infected person. Vapo rub regularly rubbed into the throat area and chest areas over the lungs as well as so coating the nostrils of the nose with vapo-rub covered cotton balls, coinciding with the initial or early appearance of COVID-19, or cold or flu, symptoms, may be as beneficial or more beneficial. Ideally, if advisable by one's personal physician, one might do all three. Consult your personal physician on the wisdom and advisability on doing these three things or any one of them to contend with the COVID-19 pandemic or one's personal symptoms of it.
It is normally safe and helpful to do daily light physical and mental exercise, even if only to take a stroll or rhythmically move or dance to music or exercise while lying down or in bed or while sitting in a chair, to visit the garden, a park or other green space and deep breathing there in the midst of plants, to drink a hot or cold cup of organic green tea or pure organic juices with their pulp (not reconstituted juice and not with any additives of any kind, including vitamins, etc), to eat meals with lots of [cooked] fresh vegetables and a fresh, raw fruit with each meal, to adequately toilet and blow (cleanout) one's nose and get at least 7 hours of sleep daily, as well as practice good daily oral and general bodily hygiene and good home and public sanitation.
If one is seriously stricken by COVID-19 and has impaired breathing, in addition to doing all of the foregoing if approved by an appropriate medical doctor, MD, one might also nevertheless cough out and spit out vigorously as frequently and much as one feels necessary obstructive and discomforting mucous and/or blood, etc., build-up in one’s respiratory tract or system -- and at a minimum water-splash the sink clean with liquid hand soap after each cough-spitting bout.
*There have been medical efficacy studies done on vitamin C that discrepantly have found it to be medically beneficial and to have no medical effect, positive or negative, with the latter reportedly having been the consistent finding in most recent such studies. The indicated consensus of all of these studies is that medically acceptable significant doses of vitamin C could have at least a positive effect for treating some people stricken by a flu, cold or related respiratory sickness (a clinically commonly believed "placebo effect," which is a therapeutic effect based on a [positively motivated or determined] state of mind or emotions influencing bodily functionality) but not an adverse treatment effect, meaning it would not worsen such an ill-health condition. A placebo effect is the opposite of a psychosomatic ill-health condition. A placebo effect is a positive psychogenic effect improving the functionality of the body whereas a psychosomatic condition or effect is a negative psychogenic effect impairing the functionality of the body, in which each type of effect auto-hypnotically mobilizes the body's biological machinery respectively toward improved versus degraded psycho-physical functioning. However, the recent no-significant-effect findings of discrepant findings among the whole of these vitamin C studies could be by-chance streak-outcomes, or by-chance streak-findings, resulting from certain blood-types subjects in both the experimental and control groups test-compared having not been screened for or systematically pre-identified in any of the studies (thus not permitting them, the different blood type subgroups, to be examined as diagnostic-study subgroups within the main vitamin C study). This potential experimental study oversight or shortcoming, or both, may by chance have been associated with a particular blood subgroup of subjects having overwhelmingly dominated both comparison groups in the recent medical efficacy studies on vitamin C, in which case it could be that people of certain significantly underrepresented blood types in the studies may really scientifically, directly biologically, benefit from particular therapeutically optimal doses of vitamin C, apart from being amenable or susceptible to a psychogenic, auto-hypnotic placebo effect. By the way, it is questionable that the placebo effect can be a delusional effect or a delusion if it has a real and enduring or permanent ameliorative or curative effect on actual bodily sickness or ill-health.
