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Arnold Snyder's avatar

The first thing I think of when I think of higher education levels is higher income levels and lower economic stress. The laptop class did fine during the Covid lockdowns while the working class lost their businesses and incomes.

The Covid programs for really small businesses (not Harvard, which filed for relief as a small business, but my neighbors' little cafe) were a joke. My neighbors had to refinance their house and go through their lifetime savings to survive the year. In addition to their cafe, the husband had a contracting business doing displays, etc. for conventions. That business has never returned. He's now bartending at night while his wife runs their cafe. They feel like they will never be able to pay off their house or have savings again.

When I think of stress, the first thing I think of is the effects of stress on energy production. Specifically, stress hormones inhibit oxidative phosphorylation in favor of aerobic glycolysis. And aerobic glycolysis, which is cancer metabolism, is associated with bad Covid outcomes and every comorbidity associated with bad Covid outcomes.

"In severe cases, the cytokine storm is responsible for the most obvious signs of a COVID-19 infection including fever, lung injury which causes cough and shortness of breath (and the long-term complication, lung fibrosis) and in death. A causative factor related to the hyper-inflammatory state of immune cells is their ability to dramatically change their metabolism. Similar to cancer cells in many solid tumors, immune cells such as macrophages/monocytes under inflammatory conditions abandon mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation for ATP production in favor of cytosolic aerobic glycolysis (also known as the Warburg effect)."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211589/

"Viruses usually target mitochondria as cellular power houses and various interplays have been detected between viruses and mitochondrial dynamics. Most viruses require aerobic glycolysis as the energy source for replication and its inhibition could attenuate this process."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dth.13810

And studies support that. Everything that inhibits aerobic glycolysis in favor of more efficient mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation inhibits severe Covid-19, including Vitamin D, aspirin, niacinamide, progesterone, testosterone or DHT, and more.

High blood levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids are a specific feature of severe Covid. They also tend to be a specific feature of cancer and aerobic glycolysis instead of oxidative phosphorylation. In other words, they wreck your metabolism and energy levels. They hurt your mitochondria.

So I think higher Covid death rates among the working class are likely due to government policies like lockdowns. I think over the long run, though, that education benefit is likely to disappear or even turn into a disadvantage, as vax uptake was much higher among those with more education.

The only educated people with vax rates as low as the working class are science PhDs.

https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/vitamin-d-and-lumisterol-emerge-as-cheap-and-easily-accessible-possible-treatments-for-covid-19/?article_id=757049

https://www.generalsurgerynews.com/In-the-News/Article/07-21/Aspirin-Reduces-the-Need-for-Mechanical-Ventilation-by-Nearly-Half-For-COVID-19-Patients/64048

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.047480v2.full

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/659444

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661247/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90362-9

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Phil Davis's avatar

A lot to read there. Thanks. One issue I need to point out. Too me it's the elephant in the room. It's the data. Particularly the covid deaths, unless I missed it in your post that particular data is very corrupted. I'm not sure it can ever be corrected to some meaningful way.

First hospitals were paid to use covid as a revenue stream. When looking at the CDC deaths I am struck by the obvious errors. My favorite was the death by accidents yet counted as covid deaths. I guess that was a symptom of covid, falling in the kitchen and hitting your head. I can imagine the pressure docs recieved from the accounting side of hospitals to mark a death as covid if they were on Medicare; big paydays for each death. Another is death by some respiratory issue. This was a murky category, people die of respiratory issues every year, lots of them, maybe one of the largest category's. Yet that was mixed in with covid, how can you possibly fix this one and it was big.

The second issue for deaths is the manufactured death, yes it was real death but by the hand of ventilators and refusal for early treatment with older drugs. For instance, how many of the well educated band of data had more financial means could persuade a doc to use a banned medication that has been around for decades? We'll never know that number.

Once politics gets involved in a subject or issues it completely shrouds it in corruption, bias, and hell hole of the right left thing. The other corruption always lurking around political operations is money, big profitable opportunities were everywhere with this plandemic, far more than we realize.

So you see while this hard work you put in is impressive and we are grateful for, it has to be framed in some unprovable (at least for now) caveats that may greatly change the interpretation.

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