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I think there was a strong suspicion that it might but also concerns over if the data really told that story. People with vitamin D deficiencies were doing worse than those without but those with vitamin D deficiencies are also people who may not go out such as the elderly who were already susceptible to COVID. So it was a correlation does not imply causation thing. Remember at the start of this there was also the suspicion that ibuprofen would make COVID worse which turned out not to be true.

So they do a study and it turns out that, at least this time, there is evidence their suspicion is correct. Public Health authorities though are rightly wary of promoting health advice they aren't entirely convinced by.

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You won't get many old folk clapping for the Nhs who have abandoned them.

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Totally agree with that, it's an absolute joke now, bloody sick of all this shit.

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Vitamin D is a vitamin, there is no downside from promoting it. Yes topping up your vitamin d levels ensures your immune system is at 100% but it won't boost it beyond that

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Love this from the police today in London.

https://twitter.com/MetPoliceEvents/...87897802280967

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Oh because it’s not about BLM, or extinction rebellion it’s not exempt from the regulations.

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Even with Vitamin D, the immune system takes time to build it's immunity. In that intervening time, damage is done to cells.

The required specialist surgeons(eg orthopaedic for joint replacements) can't be magicked out of thin air, Then there is the physiotherapists etc.

Wearing a mask isn't 100% effective.

Not quite sure how having potentially infected people gathering in GP surgeries is a good idea.

The younger generation go home, work in shops, visit people etc. That makes their behaviour a potential risk.

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Different time with different regulations?

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Absolute bollocks.

The BLM protests occurred when we were still in full national lockdown, you know when Cummings was getting his eyes tested.

This is double standards and hypocrisy of a gold standard.

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Spot on :clap:

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Far from being “bollocks” it’s fairly obvious outside the right wing echo chamber that morons were out to cause bother and the police adjusted to the situation. Morons at a time Covid cases are spiking. Hard to see the sense in supporting them.

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Really? I did put a ? at the end of the sentence, because I hadn't checked.
Covid: Clashes as police shut down protest over new rules
Link

So indeed it is a case of different time, different rules.

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It’s a bad day when Nomadking can shoot you down with copying and pasting from two sources.

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They didn’t “adjust” for BLM, they just let them vandalise what they want.

I don’t “support” them, I support the right to protest on an equal footing to other causes and be policed in the same manner.

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Unfortunately, I would say it's more of a normal day.:D

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Did the BLM protestors socially distance? Did the extinction rebellion protestors socially distance - when, I might add we were in full national lockdown.

The answer if you are unsure, is absolutely no, and I might add again that this type of totalitarian bollocks is partly the reason they are protesting.

It seems that some protests are more equal than others.

Such is the way of things these times.

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An anti-mask protest is probably going to break the rules on wearing masks tbf.

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The national lock down had easied to be 'exercise as much as you want, go to work if you must, you can drive to wherever you like' by then. It wasn't quite the full national lockdown.