I am 51 years of age.

I am Male.

What should I eat and what should I NOT eat to boost my immunity against The Virus?

First have a clear objective. In this case I would suggest an objective to keep your mental energy and strength as a first priority. Mental energy will help you counter the disease or any adversity. Then boost your physical energy and provide other nutrients in normal and required quantities.

So, reduce simple sugars and add a bit of complex carbs. Have at least two meals, if you can, prepare for rationing Do plenty of vegetables and a fruit now and then. Adequate water is also important, but don't be too zealous with it.

A complication may arise if and when you get infected and show symptoms. There have been reports of loss of taste and desire for food. In this case, learn to take soups. Just make sure you have some veges in it and they are lightly cooked. Don't forget the usual herbs: garlic and ginger

Otherwise keep fit and don't lose your sense of humour or sense of judgement. And bask in the sun now and then.

Are swedes being stupid?

@mpobiz is corrrect. Our leaders are fumbling on many fronts. Putting out media on fellows who have recovered will only cause people to underestimate the virus and makes it look like its a huge hullabaloo over nothing. Generally a bad idea when you want to communicate more caution.

This virus will kill many people. Those people who die will develop respiratory failure and require ventilation in ICU. More than 80% of those people with covid infection and who end up in ICU will die (this is in the European hospitals). I promise you that 98% of covid patients who end up in ICU in Kenya will die. Only the major private hospitals (Mater, AgaKhan, Nairobi and maybe Karen) have ICU capable of taking care of respiratory failure patients. Something comparable to the west, but still very far behind. I cannot even begin to describe how unprepared our ICU's are to deal with such a contagious disease. Chances are that patients will die and infect all people working in those units in the process.

With such grim reality of our health system capability to deal with issues, I would not focus on following the west blindly.

Rather than lockdown, people should continue working. Provide sanitizers, masks and training on effective social distancing. Our preparedness seems to be so focussed on the 5% who will get seriosly ill. The 5% that cannot be saved.

Of the other 15% that end up in hospitals, I hope the goverment is ensuring that all hospitals dedicated for covid 19 patients will be able to supply oxygen to these patients. Not all beds in a hospital have oxygen ports. Rather than dedicate sections of hospitals to deal with covid 19, Govt should either evacuate whole hospitals and equip them in readiness for covid patients or set up make shift hospitals in tents with adequate oxygen and drugs.

Setting apart sections of a hospital to handle /isolate covid 19 while the other sections see regular patients is a very bad idea. Cross contamination via staff will inevitably occur and expose many staff members to the virus. Remember, there is data that this virus can continue hanging in the air, say in a lift for some time.

In short, we are sitting ducks when it comes to handling the severe 5%. I am not too sure we have prepared adequately to help the not so seriously ill 15% which is where most deaths will be averted.

Instead, in a bid to protect the 20% who will show symptoms of covid 19, we have put the remaining 80% of the population on a fake lock down, disrupted family lifelines and incomes, exposed children to malnutrition and death from treatable conditions, because remember, if a family has no money, when their member gets ill from treatable conditions, they will not seek appropriate care. The ripple effects of this fake lock down will be felt long after corona is brought under control. Many will die from non corona causes because a fumbling govt cannot see the whole picture. They want to copy the west.

I know we are only talking hypothetically here lakini no vaping and only shallow tokes...or edibles--all hypothetically ofcourse..

Let's process some 'new' info:

We now know that up to 25% of people are likely not to show symptoms at all. And of those that show symptoms, 80% experience them mildly. Those that have serious symptoms tend to have an underlying condition and are 20%. About 10% end up dying.

Qsn: what can we learn about this virus?

Tycho: This is a relatively weak virus that 'takes advantage' of weakness in immunity and organ weakness. Otherwise, it should cause no nuisance at all.

1. We have our masks and new habits intact. (I fear many may go to old habits in terms of hand washing. And we may need to improve on disinfecting surfaces)

2. We are keeping our minds alert, and body is getting enough oxygen

3. We are aware of nutrition and physical fitness demands

We need a fourth item to complete our defenses:

4. Fend off immunity droppers.

Events happen and the more we are immersed in them the more we are likely to be mentally and psychologically bruised. What happens is that these events and experiences get into the subconscious and they eat from within. A study I like mentioning is that of Karl Menninger in 'Man against himself'. The human mind as conditioned by growth is highly self destructive.

So for starters I recommend we use Timothy Wilson's method of 'Redirecting'. What we do, is have journals and workbooks for redirecting our experiences.

Write down your feelings and experiences. Ask the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions if you need a push. Probe your heart and mind. And learn to forgive yourself, and others.

If you pray, please do. If you are able, bathe in light.

That way, we will have a basic defence mechanism and routine, that will ensure that our immunity doesn't weaken. And when weak, we are sure to get stronger faster.

If you consider the length that we may go with this virus before things settle, you will see that this defence position will be helpful when things appear not to be near their end. Or when we need to come up with solutions to emergent challenges.

Yes. Hypothetically.

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April 1.

I think this guy is simply saying that complex discoveries and in this case medical discoveries can be made by a PhD and basic lab equipment.like how penicillin was discovered.
When a PhD holder produces a credible thesis that is read by other PhD holders and approved. then serious work can begin.