Smoking protects from coronavirus.
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Good news for smokers! They don’t need to worry about the unlikely happenstance of dying from coronavirus — they’ve already insured that their cardiovascular systems and lungs are irreparably damaged, and their increased chances of cancer and stroke are off the charts.
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Smoking also helps against Alzheimer’s…
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That’s because smokers kick off early from heart attacks, strokes, and cancer, before dementia has a chance to kick in.
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Perhaps a potential therapy would be an inhaled substance delivered by nebulizer to temporarily downregulate ACE2 in the lungs and stop the virus in its tracks.
Knowing my luck a likely agent will probably be one of those essential oils (probably sage or something) so that I never hear the end of it.
Good find by the way, thankyou.
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This meta-analysis found the opposite result though: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.25.20043745v1
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