Writing is my artistic expression. My keyboard is my brush. Words are my medium. My blog is my canvas. And committing to writing daily makes me feel like an artist.
Here are 2 videos about how Vitamin D is likely to reduce the seriousness of Covid-19 complications. This is not like a vaccine, preventing you from getting Covid-19. This is not a cure. What Vitamin D seems to do is reduce the likelihood of respiratory complications in people who have contracted Covid-19.
The first video is on a very small study in Spain, and the details are shared in an easy to understand explanation.
The second video is more technical, but also looks at more than one study.
Back to Pascal’s wager: here are 4 scenarios based on Vitamin D working as the research suggests vs not:
1. Vitamin D can reduce the seriousness of Covid-19 and you don’t take it. -> You might catch Covid-19 and things could get much worse than if you took it.
2. Vitamin D can reduce the seriousness of Covid-19 and you take it. -> You might catch Covid-19 and have a much milder or less serious case. Even if you don’t catch Covid-19, most people are deficient in Vitamin D and so it still helps you.
3. Vitamin D won’t reduce the seriousness of Covid-19 and you don’t take it. -> No loss or benefit.
4. Vitamin D won’t reduce the seriousness of Covid-19 and you take it. -> As said above, even if you don’t catch Covid-19, most people are deficient in Vitamin D and so it still helps you.
It seems that the potential benefits vs no downside makes adding the supplement to your daily routine worth it!
I’m not a doctor, I don’t pretend to be one. I just see so much upside to taking Vitamin D. Talk to your doctor or share the videos above with friends who are doctors. See what they have to say.
That’s it, I’m fed up! I’m sick and tired of rules limiting my freedom. The roads are public, the government shouldn’t be able to tell me which side to drive on.
It’s my car, my choice.
Prohibitive yellow lines are a symbol of tyranny.
I will not succumb to someone else’s fear.
It’s not about road safety, it’s about control.
When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes a duty.
I’m not a sheep that you can keep in line.
Motor vehicle death statistics are exaggerated to scare you.
I should be able to drive as close to other cars as I want to.
Mandatory lanes are illegal. They limit my rights and freedoms.
Yellow lines are a symbol of false security.
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How ridiculous would it be if we didn’t obey the laws of the road that kept us from colliding with oncoming traffic?
How ridiculous would it be for us to ignore laws and norms designed to keep us, and those more vulnerable than us in our community, safe during a pandemic?
I am not a fan of vertical (portrait) video. It’s not just an aesthetic, it’s wasted real estate. Seldom does more room above and below a subject being filmed give you as much information as more room to the left and to the right. That said, we will end up watching vertical videos that people choose to take. If you are one of these people taking vertical video, please do me a big favour: Do NOT use the Apple iMovie ‘feature’ that fills the black sidebars on a vertical video viewed horizontally with a magnified, blurry copy of the video.
This is a bug, not a feature. It actually takes away from the video. It’s a distraction. Worse yet, it creates a horizontal video with the side bars out of the vertical video so that even if you watch the video vertically, then the video is even smaller.
It was an intentional choice to film the video this way. Here is a horizontal screenshot of the video:
And since she left the video as vertical and didn’t fill the sides, or worse fill the sides with distractions, here is a screenshot of the video viewed vertically:
And here is the video vertically if she had forced the video to be horizontal after the fact:
I didn’t share any images with the sides blurred, but just know that this is even worse. Sometimes features that are added are actually bugs, they don’t make things any better no matter how they are used.
Here are some public service announcements regarding the tragedy and horror of using vertical videos! 😜
And one more short one, but the cover image has a swear word not seen in the video, so I’ll just link to it.