• D3FNC [any]@hexbear.net
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    Nicotine and amphetamines had the same effect based on studies done during the pandemic, accounting for smoking’s oddly protective effect that was observed initially, counterintuitively.

    As someone with ADHD that dips and drinks coffee, none of that stopped me from getting covid repeatedly while working in a hospital.

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      Still getting COVID is consistent with the results of this study. Coffee helps, but only by 10%.

      Based on the previous report analysis [26], drinking one or more cups of coffee per day was related to approximately 10% lower risk of COVID-19 compared to no coffee in the UK Biobank (UKB)

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    Is this actually true in the way that is intuitive or is it true in the same sense that if you have a petri dish with cancerous cells in it you can kill them with a handgun

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      According to the study at least, they claim to have seen a statistically significant difference in human trials with moderate coffee consumption. Whether the trials were well done is another question of course. :)

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    That site won’t let me reject cookies, I’m forced to accept them. So I’ll pass thanks.

    • online@lemmy.ml
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      If you use Firefox you can turn on the thing that they just enabled in Germany by going to about:config and setting these options:

      • cookiebanners.service.mode 2
      • cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing 2

      They are both set to ‘0’ right now.

      They are testing this setting, so if something goes wrong then change it back.

      More information here: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/

      Caveat: I just learned this on Lemmy in some other thread I can’t find again.

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    So between daily coffee and weekly cannabis consumption I should be well protected. Not to mention the vaccination. So why did I catch that shit last year??

  • I was at an inpatient medical facility last year and they had a doctor come in specifically to give an hour long lecture about how smoking cigarettes prevents covid. It was the most surreal thing I’ve ever experienced and I have no idea where they found that Marlboro man ass doctor.

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m only half joking when I credit caffeine and cannabis for helping me dodge covid all this time (that I know of, I might’ve had an asymptomatic case but every time I’ve gotten tested it’s been negative). Of course masking and living like a hermit even before covid kicked off definitely helps, but I’ll take the excuse to indulge in my favourite vices