[FRIAM] proven COVID treatment

[Marcus Daniels]

If these friends wanted to do a useful experiment, they would have a control group.  It sounds like they all got lit.

If these 32 friends are mostly less than 60 years old, no deaths would be expected.
Or they could be some cohort that for whatever yet-to-be-quantified genetic, epigenetic, metabolic condition reason, or that they lack co-morbidities.

I do realize you are trolling, like Nick's alter ego, but IIRC you were someone posting about hydroxychloroquine.   There are many plausible drugs that could impact COVID-19, and some already taken by vulnerable populations.   Hypertension drugs, like ACE inhibitors were at first thought be potentially dangerous, but then contrary evidence became available.   One might as well as suggest that COVID-19 symptoms be treated with coffee!   After all, it is a mild bronchodilator as well as a diuretic.     

The only way to have any confidence that treatments are safe and effective is systematic testing.    

Marcus

On 5/24/20, 5:46 AM, "Friam on behalf of Prof David West" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:

    Some friends I made in Amsterdam live in a commune — 30-32 of them. They had to go into quarantine six weeks ago with two members of the group testing positive for COVID. So they were pretty confident that they would all get the disease while in quarantine.

    Reading that the virus does best in cool moist environments they decided to take daily doses of MDMA — which raises body temperature and dehydrates.

    When the left quarantine last week, all of them tested positive for the antibodies but none of them had suffered symptoms beyond mild sniffles. 

    Proof positive that MDMA prevents COVID from getting past your nasal / mouth tissue where is causes minimal harm.

    Right?

    davew

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