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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This one’s from “Clammy”. “Doesn’t it say in the Jewish scriptures for specific individuals to be isolated during sickness as opposed to everyone?”
Rick Rosner: I don’t know I mean scriptures say a lot of stuff. They say it’s a sin to where two different kinds of fabric. The Old Testament’s more than 2000 years old. We’ve learned some crap since then that we’re not supposed to eat shellfish, I’m sure because it was dangerous to eat some kind of shellfish in the year 200 BC. We’re not supposed to eat pork. I think you were supposed to put the ladies in a tent when they were having their period. The Bible says lots of stuff and we’ve learned lots of stuff in the last two millennia and we’ve also learned a bunch of stuff in the past three years since Covid started.
At first, Fauci in the CDC was saying surgical masks are cool because they didn’t want to freak people out and maybe they thought they were sufficient and then it took a while to figure out that n95s are really what you want. I still see people wearing crappy surgical masks which are of limited utility but the crappiness of surgical masks and the politization of Covid convinced everybody that the masks can’t work even though it’s freaking obvious via physics that a well-fitted mask that makes air pass through it instead of around it like an n95 will capture some of the fucking droplets that come out of your mouth when you’re breathing or coming into your mouth. It takes time to freaking do science and the lunatics were out there immediately with wild guesses.
Some of the wild guesses turned out to be okay. My Trumpy friend heard from his dentist that if you use a ton of mouthwash super frequently that might knock down the virus and increase your chances of not getting too sick or not catching it. I just saw a paper that I’ve been too lazy to read all the way through that said mouthwash can work. So that wild guess turned out to be right. Other wild guesses turned out to be not so right; Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin which is horse paste. Three years in now we know that there are a bunch of things that can knock down your chances of getting really sick. The vaccine isn’t 100% preventative but it can knock down your chances by 50% of getting seriously ill or dying.
When the new vax that’s pegged to the new variants comes out in the fall, that’ll probably be 70-80% effective. So nasal spray, if you get Covid, just as soon as you test positive, Astepro nasal spray can knock down your viral load by 20%. Ditto for some mouthwashes; Paxlovid, I guess an antiviral you start taking it within in a few days of testing positive and it can reduce your viral load, reduce the number of days that you’re sick and contagious, reduce your chances of getting long Covid and you stack them all up. You do everything you possibly can; vax, Paxlovid nasal spray, not being obese, losing some weight. Obviously you can’t lose 80 pounds as soon as you test positive but you can start losing weight now but doing everything you can, you can increase your chances of not getting screwed by Covid immensely. It’s been nearly three and a half years since Covid originated and we’ve learned some stuff since then.
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