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There is a huge correlation between people low in Vitamin D and bad COVID-19 outcomes, correlation != causation, sure. It’s usually too late to expect giving vi
by andy_ppp 5y ago
There is a huge correlation between people low in Vitamin D and bad COVID-19 outcomes, correlation != causation, sure. It’s usually too late to expect giving vitamin D at the point of hospitalisation to expect it to help. I’m for most people taking vitamin d regularly for all sorts of reasons. I’d be much more circumspect about Ivermectin but the studies are being done now to see if it can help, to say it absolutely won’t work is unknown. I think promoting it is pretty bad personally and I don’t take my medical advice from Joe Rogan. Medcram is pretty informative though.
- kreeben 5y ago>> huge correlation between people low in Vitamin D and bad COVID-19 outcomes >> correlation != causation Thank you for that perfect explanation of "what is half-truth".
- anonymouswacker 5y agoThanks for illustrating that you “half-understoood” the argument.
- kreeben 5y agoWhich part _did_ I understand and what part did I not, according to you?
- anonymouswacker 5y agoSorry, I'm sometimes snarky in the mornings. Giving the OP the benefit of the doubt, I presume they meant that correlation does not always equal causation, but that there is a middle ground of the "unknown" rather than just the inverse of a logical, mathematical statement. If you see a pattern from enough correlations, then you might let go of some of your own hubris. It's not black and white, and so on.
- kreeben 5y agoI'm sorry you feel I've been too binary and full of hubris. I'll take that to heart. Cheers!
- andy_ppp 5y agoWell I’m not here to defend Joe Rogan but I think most people should be taking Vitamin D. Listen to the stuff medcram have put out on this, it’s really informative and science based and doesn’t make outlandish claims.