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Comment by whipaway | Hacker News Reader

It's sad that medical advice offers little to people, effectively waiting until people are suffocating to rush them to the hospital.

There's something seriously broken about how people are being treated.

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Since this serious complication first surfaced a little over a year ago, various mitigations have been developed, with the result that people with this complication are more likely to survive than before. Now, the mechanism responsible for it has been discovered, an an apparently-effective solution found among existing drugs - and the search for more continues.

Just what is "seriously broken" about this picture, other than that it does not conform to your fantasy about how things should be? Overfilling the hospitals with everyone who might develop this complication would be counter-productive.

We are seriously overlooking the general prophylactic and tonic benefits that would lead to fewer people landing in hospital ICUs and requiring serious medical intervention that itself often has harmful and long-lasting side effects. The healing properties of an anti-inflammatory diet rich in turmeric and wild-caught salmon are well-understood. Honey has clear anti-bacterial properties. Air rich in ions leads to improvements in general well-being. If we listened to what Mother Nature was telling us (especially about the healing wisdom of wildcrafted dark chocolate), we likely wouldn't feel a need to rush to all these unpronounceable drugs of dubious benefit.

As far as panaceas go I'd take tasty food over bleach enemas at least, I'll give you that

There is no healing wisdom in a bleach enema.

I always wonder, how people like you end up on HN. Its like meeting a mormon in a pub.

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