[xphilter]

Smoking cover up? Goodness. Let’s assume you’re right and smoking prevents Covid. The answer would be to get everyone to start smoking??? Get everyone hooked on nicotine? If the goal is to prevent Covid, masks are better—they’re cheap, easy, and have no side effects. (Which drives people mad, but imagine telling them to start smoking instead. Actually I could see the anti-maskers firing up a box a day lol).

[Izkata]

The next step would be to figure out why and if it can be duplicated without the negative effects.

[xphilter]

Sure, this guy can go fund that or submit a proposal for funding. I just don’t see how someone jumps to cover up…

[LanceH]

> Smoking cover up? Goodness. Let’s assume you’re right and smoking prevents Covid. The answer would be to get everyone to start smoking?

The answer isn't to lie to people for their own good, and there was a lot of that going on with regard to Covid.

[xphilter]

In what way have there been lies?

[LanceH]

To be clear, I stayed at home longer than most. I wore masks and still have some at home and in my car if needed. I got vaccinated as early as possible according to the rules, etc... I'm not a conspiracy theorist about these things.

I am concerned with the process and the seizure of power by so many, and how so many are just fine with it as long as it is their team.

"After the state attorney general revealed earlier this year that thousands of deaths of nursing home residents had been undercounted, Mr. Cuomo finally released the complete data, saying he had withheld it out of concern that the Trump administration might pursue a politically motivated inquiry into the state’s handling of the outbreak in nursing homes." -- Cuomo

"Fauci, along with several other US health leaders, initially advised people not to wear masks, Fauci later said that he was concerned that there wouldn’t be enough protective equipment for health care workers. This was also early in the pandemic before public health experts fully knew how contagious the disease was and how it spread." -- cnn fact check

Both lying for our own good.

Another common source of lies would be the explanations of which businesses could keep running as "necessary", which probably varied red/blue by state.

Withholding information or lying to the public is not the role of the government.

[xphilter]

Ah. Good points.

[FollowingTheDao]

This is such a horribly immature statement to make. There are many chemicals in cigarettes that can be utilized to either prevent or understand how Covid infects the human body, and what we can do to stop it. The nicotonic receptors are highly utilized by the immune system.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11062-007-0037-2

I’m really getting tired of this lack of creative thought in thinking about health and disease.

[dang]

Please make your substantive points without swipes. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568920 (Nov 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31632010 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31239687 (May 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30570715 (March 2022)

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