The Plague

 I had the chance to speak with an ICU doctor the other day about the virus, in a non-medical setting. In the midst of the rest of the conversation, here’s what he said.

Everybody he’s dealing with is a COVID patient. If you’re either elderly, or wait too late to get checked out rather than going in when you first get it, you’re done. Everybody else can get over it. 

Masks, in his opinion, do no good. You walk around at all times with a cloud of moisture around your head. All the mask does is slow it down as it leaves your mouth. It’s still there.

It’s an inflammatory disease. They’re using Remdesivir, but what is really working is steroids. Once the inflammation destroys enough lung tissue and scars it up to where you can’t breathe anymore, it’s too late. The steroids knock down the inflammation. 

From me - Americans on the whole eat a terrible, inflammation-causing diet. The preventative, then, is to eat an anti-inflammatory diet. Knock off the Little Debbies and eat some greens, if you want to live.