October 26, 2020
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 23:55:57 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> What we didn't do until much later (but by the looks of things, if it gets bad we would have no choice): masks. This is preventative. You will not know that you have COVID-19 until it is too late.
>
> Last but no less important: Stay at home! If you are not perfectly healthy, keep away from others.


> Is Symmetry offering the hand sanitizer and where possible encouraging social distancing within their offices?

We started preparing for everyone to work from home in January and the final instruction not to come into the office went out Feb 23.  We told everyone in January to prepare by having three weeks of food at home, order masks and to consider vitamin D.

We pay for vitamin D tests for all employees and consultants and we are trialling antigen strip tests with the hope we can pay for weekly testing of Symmetry people and their families.

We have also written some public policy proposals to try to improve Covid policy in the UK.

It's not really an issue to have social distancing within the office because they have been closed since February and I don't see a way that we can reopen any time soon.

Hand sanitiser is a good idea if you can't safely wash your hands, but for a disease spread by droplets and aerosol it's only something. Our building is owned by the NHS so unfortunately it's tough to get them to fit HEPA filters and viricidal UV to the HVAC. A bare minimum to reopen safely.

We are opening a Jersey office and giving people the option to relocate here.  It's a bit easier to govern an island than a great nation.

October 26, 2020
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 08:28:35 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 23:34:50 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I wrote down a few things I am doing for covid preparedness
> ...
>> https://github.com/symmetry-covid/personal-plan
>>
>>
>> Laeeth
>
> Good to see you made it through, and thanks for sharing your findings. Good job preventing the infection of your family members!
>
> Bastiaan

Thanks, Bastiaan.


October 26, 2020
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 11:11:05 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Laeeth,
>
> It is also worth noting that we currently appear to have a UK national shortage of sensible (*) Vitamin D supplements. Sad for those of us that know we need the supplement but now can't get them. :-(
>
> (*) And even the useless ones. :-( :-(

I think that vitamin D sprays 3,000 IU are still available on Amazon UK.


October 26, 2020
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:09:37 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 18:44:20 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 11:13:20 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> Laeeth,
>>>
>>> I hope you are now feeling well after your foray with Covid-19, and especially that you do not have any signs at all of "Long Covid".
>>
>> you've been infected Laeeth?
>
> I'have been By the the throat.
> My immune sustem just fought very well.

Sorry to hear that.  I hope you're better now.

Yes - I had it, and it was fine initially and then it wasn't so easy.  I don't think it would have gone very well if I hadn't prepared for certain deficiencies in our national health service and been able to treat myself.  I did have long covid but I am mostly better now.  Long covid is much more of a risk than death for most younger people.

You know it was interesting reading about the US politicians receiving a special briefing and then selling all their stocks. I thought to myself, if they had only read Reddit and followed some insightful people on Twitter they would have been by far better informed even in January.

So if we were able to prepare reasonably well so far this year then I owe it to social media and open source.



October 26, 2020
Very nice!
October 26, 2020
On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 02:29 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> I think that vitamin D sprays 3,000 IU are still available on Amazon UK.
> 

Some 4,500 IU vitamin D capsules are appearing again online, including Amazon, so my panic is over (at least for now).

OH research over the years indicates that coconut oil (not sunflower oil) carried vitamin D > 3,000 IU in capsules taken together with some form of Omega 3/Omega 6 capsule is the best way of getting vitamin D absorbed into the body. Mixed vitamin D and vitamin K tend to be not so good.

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November 28, 2020
Paper I co-authored on decision-making under uncertainty and vitamin D.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346423180_Vitamin_D_and_COVID-19_Is_There_a_Lack_of_RiskReward_Understanding_Among_Health_Authorities
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