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Prevention generally is better than cure. And it is not like scientists are not researching for alternative treatments, it is just that unless they got some positive result the media will not announce it.

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There is no push to do what we KNOW reduces the risk of Covid 19 and that is to get healthy. By now everybody could have lost a bunch of weight and shed their type 2 diabetes and could now be in a much lower risk profile for all causes of death…not just Covid. But almost nowhere do you see the government or anyone else saying one should do that. Probably because there isn’t any money in it and people are lazy.

Yeah, we'll never have a President that is honest enough to give a State of the Union address where he says "Hey you fatasses! Stop eating McDonald's, and do some air squats every day in your home! Then maybe we wouldn't need to pass 4000-page health insurance laws! Bro, do you even lift?"

Actually you don't need to use strong words, you can say the same in a more delicate (and precise) way without offending anyone[0]. It's not like everybody is going to listen, but at least they know they do have some responsibility for their health and they can do much more that just getting two shots (or a shot every quarter as it seems to be the new normal).

[0] Except the people that will get offended no matter what you say, they seem endemic.

There are some health pre-conditions that are impossible to avoid. I have hypertension for example, and except for this I am pretty much healthy. But still have a significant increased change of having of death in case I got COVID.

So yeah, I will take all vaccines I can. If I need a third dose to keep my immunity high against COVID, I will sure take it.

There was anti viral cure which Pfizer just announced trial results of phase 2. Supposedly 90% efficacy when administered 3 days after symptoms to prevent hospitalisations and deaths.

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