Since misinformation is in vogue with just about everything, how about this:
An inverse relationship between smoking and Covid:
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200615/An-inverse-relationship-between-smoking-and-COVID-19.aspx
So for those non smokers who are looking for a little extra protection against Covid...
Of course, the WHO has a (Only slightly) different take:
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/smoking-and-covid-19
Never mind common sense. That would be playing unfair.
So if we are not going to allow ourselves to use common sense, how do we decide who to trust?
Follow the money. The multi-billion dollar tobacco industry has a history of denying the harmful effects of smoking. Have they gone further and are now funding “Studies” that serve to protect their interests? Or is the nonprofit World Health Organization (WHO) whose fundamental objective revolves around good health practices the one we should trust?
EMTs almost universally talk about the differences in outcomes of car accidents between smokers and non smokers that involves the chest. Trauma to a smokers chest tends to cause potentially fatal lung swelling. Is it probably safe to assume that smoking itself is a comorbidity concerning Covid-19 outcomes due to reduced oxgenation potential, physical lung damage, and tendency for high blood pressure.
Another example is Chloroquine is cheap and has been shown to be effective in the early treatment or prevention of Covid infection by seemingly unbiased research group(s). After all, funding for studies that don’t provide a high profit margin solution are scarce relative to studies that promote a high profit margin solution, aren’t they? By extension, it seems reasonable to assume that a pharmeceutical company with a product to sell might be interested in impeaching a cheaper alternative.
From Wikipedia.org on the American Medical Association:
Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist
Milton Friedman as well as his wife,
Rose Friedman, have claimed that the organization acts as a
guild and has attempted to increase physicians'
wages and
fees by influencing limitations on the
supply of physicians and
competition from non-physicians. In the book
Free to Choose, the Friedmans stated that "the AMA has engaged in extensive litigation charging chiropractors and
osteopathic physicians with the unlicensed practice of medicine, in an attempt to restrict them to as narrow an area as possible."
[85]Profession and Monopoly also criticized the AMA for limiting the supply of physicians and inflating the cost of medical care in the U.S as well as its influence on hospital regulation.
[86] In a 1987 antitrust court case, a federal district judge called the AMA's behavior toward chiropractors "systematic, long-term wrongdoing". The AMA was accused of limiting the associations between physicians and chiropractors. In the 1960s and 1970s, the association's Committee on Quackery was said to have targeted the chiropractic profession, and for many years the AMA held that it was unethical for physicians to refer patients to chiropractors or to receive referrals from chiropractors.
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Extensive corruption issues surround the medical profession. Critically read the studies, think for yourself, and follow the money.
Bugenhagen, you should know better. Unless...