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ositadima1:
Who told you? Skin to skin will become popular again, some people will come up with some funny ideas like how rubbing chewed up onion or yabas on your thing will protect you from STDs.

my belle oh....
hahaha....

Donsheddy:
my belle oh....
hahaha....

Na true nah, we usually take COVID19 tests for access to work sites. Around that period you start perceiving onion, garlic and ginger smell in peoples breath.

ositadima1:
Who told you? Skin to skin will become popular again, some people will come up with some funny ideas like how rubbing chewed up onion or yabas on your thing will protect you from STDs.

Hian, chewed onions ke, wetin person no go read for Nairaland.com, onions preventing coronavirus, HIV, AIDS, High-blood pressures etc like seriously

ositadima1:
Na true nah, we usually take COVID19 tests for access to work sites. Around that period you start perceiving onion, garlic and ginger smell in peoples breath.

Falls from Planet Jupiter to planet earth

ositadima1:
Na true nah, we usually take COVID19 tests for access to work sites. Around that period you start perceiving onion, garlic and ginger smell in peoples breath.

How many people were they able to detect with the virus.


News from India is very scary, may God help us

emmanuelewumi:
How many people were they able to detect with the virus.


News from India is very scary, may God help us

One or two, to be honest I personally haven't seen any Nigerian fall sick from it.

ositadima1:
One or two, to be honest I personally haven't seen any Nigerian fall sick from it.

Come to LASUTH Ikeja Lagos

ositadima1:
One or two, to be honest I personally haven't seen any Nigerian fall sick from it.

check the nearest hospital in your location

emmanuelewumi:
How many people were they able to detect with the virus.

News from India is very scary, may God help us

very scary

IyaTola:
very scary

Prevention is better than cure.

emmanuelewumi:
Prevention is better than cure.

The death toll is increasing on a hourly basis.

Some people have said our sun provides Vit. D that helps reduce the spread. One may be tempted to believe because our markets especially the big ones are always packed full. Looks like staying in an air conditioned environment all the time reduces ones immunity. Just speculating

IyaTola:
The death toll is increasing on a hourly basis.

IyaTola:
The death toll is increasing on a hourly basis.

What is killing them over there is not the same covid in Nigeria space.I pray the truth comes out someday.

ojesymsym:
Some people have said our sun provides Vit. D that helps reduce the spread. One may be tempted to believe because our markets especially the big ones are always packed full. Looks like staying in an air conditioned environment all the time reduces ones immunity. Just speculating

What kind of theory is this. India is hotter and more humid than Nigeria!

emmanuelewumi:
Come to LASUTH Ikeja Lagos

A lot of Nigerians have caught COVID and even died from it. But people don’t test. So we think the numbers are low. But it’s not true at all. Many are actually walking around with the disease. All the ‘malaria/typhoid’ and loss of smell/taste all over the place is surely COVID.

It’s in our interest not to show the real situation because if they decide to, Nigeria will enter panic mode!

Only God see where you see me mention heat.

Lazyyouth4u:
What kind of theory is this. India is hotter and more humid than Nigeria!

The idea is not entirely a new one. The keyword is not on the heat from the sun but the vitamin D it is believe to provide.

Lazyyouth4u:
What kind of theory is this. India is hotter and more humid than Nigeria!

Have you been wondering why ordinary folks seem to be less affected by COVID-19?

Whenever my drivers, home helps and security guards come back from their leave at home, I always asked them the state of things in their villages. Up till today, for the past one year, none has come back with any news of deaths or serious illnesses requiring hospitalisation in their homes or surroundings. I visited the Sabo market in Sagamu and the tomato market at toll gate in Ogere in Ogun State. I questioned many traders if any stall or store owners had been missing, or did not come to the market or had actually died. Responses were always negative.

So, clearly the prevalence of noticeable infection with coronavirus is less among the lower class and fatalities appear to be higher among the upper class. However, it is necessary to make some adjustments for the fact that deaths among the elite class readily get media attention than those of regular folks.
Melinda Gates’ prediction failed woefully because there was no way she could have foreseen this demographic prevalence factor in the spread of COVID-19. The overall infectivity and fatalities on the Africa continent are disproportionately much lower than the rest of the world!

What is the magic here?

Simply put, the magic is SUNLIGHT.

People who are daily exposed to sunlight are able to convert some chemicals in their skins to vitamin D, especially D3.

Scientists have incontrovertible evidence that Vitamin D seriously boost the human immunity and actually have capacity to prevent respiratory and lung diseases.

In the case of COVID-19, vitamin D3 can prevent infection in some people and in others who still get infected, it decreases the severity of the infection and recovery rate is far better.
Recently, a petition signed by 120 physicians spread across the globe, (I have a copy) has been sent to world leaders and governments to treat vitamin D deficiency common in Europe and Americas, who have effective sunlight for just a few months in a year and hence have large numbers of the populace suffering from vitamins deficiency leading to high rates of susceptibility to COVID-19 infections and deaths.

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Many of us the elites in Africa are also vitamin D-deficient and this makes us ready targets for COVID-19 infections also. This is because we are hardly in the sun all year round.

Yet, a 30-minute lounge daily in the bright sunlight gives one about 20,000 iu of vitamin D in our blood. This figure is much higher than our daily requirement which is about 4000 iu of vitamin D.

This is why young people, students, hawkers, traders and many who toil daily under the sun have very high immunity against COVID-19.
So my dear elders, VIPs and ‘Ogas’, please walk leisurely or lounge in the sun for 20 to 30 minutes daily, and with your face masks always on in public and observing normal COVID-19 protocols. With daily supplications to the Almighty, you will place a ban on COVID-19 from affecting you and your household.

God bless you all.

Chief Doyin Okupe is a former presidential spokesperson
https://punchng.com/why-covid-19-spares-the-poor/?amp=1

https://www.nairaland.com/6364684/why-covid-19-spares-poor

This Article is from the respected The Spectator:


The argument that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to more severe cases of Covid is gaining ground. It is now reaching the point where it is surprising that we are not hearing from leading medical officials and politicians that people should consider taking supplements to ensure they have sufficient vitamin D.

This is not the same as arguing that vitamin D is a magic bullet that will cure the disease. Vitamins are not medication, the taking of which will have positive effects on everybody. They are top-ups: things that hurt you when you don’t have enough of them in your system but do no extra good when you have enough. Indeed, with many vitamins, including D, taking too much can be toxic.

However, it is true that many people are deficient in vitamin D, especially at the end of winter. That is because, uniquely, vitamin D is a substance manufactured by ultraviolet light falling on your skin. You can get some from fish and other foods, but not usually enough. So most people’s vitamin D levels fall to a low point in February or March when the sun has been weak and its UV output especially so. Public health bodies have long advised people to supplement vitamin D in winter anyway.

Vitamin D deficiency may or may not help to prevent you catching the virus, but it does affect whether you get very ill from it
The level falls especially low in people who stay indoors a lot, including the elderly, and in those who have darker skin. Whereas the safe level of vitamin D is generally agreed to be above 10 nanograms per millilitre, one recent study of South Asians living in Manchester found average levels of 5.8 in winter and 9 in summer: too low at all times of the year. Darker skin reduces the impact of sunlight; so does the cultural habit of veiling; and so does a reluctance among some Muslims to take supplements that might have pork-derived gelatin in them.

Vitamin D deficiency has long been known to coincide with a greater frequency or severity of upper-respiratory tract infections, or colds. That this is a causal effect is supported by some studies showing that vitamin D supplements do reduce the risk of such infections. These studies are not without their statistical flaws, so cannot yet be regarded as certain, but they are not quackery like a lot of the stuff coming out of the supplements industry: they come from reputable medical scientists.

What about vitamin D and Covid in particular? Results are coming in from various settings and the main message seems to be that vitamin D deficiency may or may not help to prevent you catching the virus, but it does affect whether you get very ill from it. One recent study in Chicago concluded that its result 'argues strongly for a role of vitamin D deficiency in COVID-19 risk and for expanded population-level vitamin D treatment and testing and assessment of the effects of those interventions.'

The bottom line is that an elderly, overweight, dark-skinned person living in the north of England, in March, and sheltering indoors most of the time is almost certain to be significantly vitamin D deficient. If not taking supplements, he or she should be anyway, regardless of the protective effect against the Covid virus. Given that it might be helpful against the virus, should not this advice now be shouted from the rooftops?

A new article by a long list of medical experts in the BMJ cautiously agrees, confirming that many people in northern latitudes have poor vitamin D status, especially in winter or if confined indoors, and that low vitamin D status 'may be exacerbated during this COVID-19 crisis by indoor living and reduced sun exposure'.

It adds that very high intakes or 'mega supplements' will not help and may cause harm, and it is this that probably explains the reluctance of the authorities to spread the message. Another factor may be the lack of lobbying. Vitamin supplements are cheap and unpatented, so there is no great incentive for big companies to push them. All the more reason for government to do so.

It should be possible, and wise, to tell people to take modest doses of vitamin D supplements for their health. The evidence is easily strong enough to justify it.


https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-growing-evidence-on-vitamin-d-and-covid#

https://www.nairaland.com/5869681/growing-evidence-vitamin-d-covid

Coronavirus patients who get enough vitamin D are 52 per cent less likely to die of the infection, study finds
• Boston University researchers found that COVID019 patients with 'sufficient' levels of vitamin D wer about 52 percent less likely to die after hospitalisation
• Rates of severe illness were about 13 percent lower in vitamin D-sufficient patients and intubation was 46% less common
• Vitamin D plays a crucial role in the immune system's ability to fight infection and keep inflammation - which kills many COVID-19 patients - in check
• About 42 percent of Americans are vitamin D deficient, with higher rates among elderly Americans and people of colour
• Black, Hispanic and elderly people are also among the hardest hit by coronavirus

By NATALIE RAHHAL US HEALTH EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 23:06, 25 September 2020 | UPDATED: 09:29, 26 September 2020

People who get enough vitamin D are at a 52 percent lower risk of dying of COVID-19 than people who are deficient for the 'sunshine vitamin,' new research reveals.

Vitamin D plays a crucial role in the immune system and may combat inflammation. These features may make it a key player in the body's fight against coronavirus.

Rates of vitamin D deficiency are also higher in some of the same groups who have been hardest hit by coronavirus: people of color and elderly people. It's by no means a causal link, but suggests that vitamin D could play a role in who gets COVI-19, who gets sickest from it, and who is spared altogether.

Boston University's Dr Michael Holick found in his previous research that people who have enough vitamin D are 54 percent less likely to catch coronavirus in the first place.

Following on that work, he and his team have found that people who don't get enough of the vitamin are far more likely to become severely ill, develop sepsis or even die after contracting coronavirus.

Because vitamin D deficiency is common in people with other disease that raise coronavirus risks, it's impossible to say exactly how many lives would be spared if we all got our daily dose of the sunshine vitamin.

But we know that about 42 percent of the US population is vitamin D deficient. If that rate held true for the more 203,000 Americans who died of coronavirus, perhaps some 85,000 would have fared better with improved vitamin D levels.

In Britain 20 per cent of the population suffer from the deficiency, according to the British Nutrition Foundation. When the rate is applied to the UK's 41,936 deaths from coronavirus, it suggests 8,387 of them could have been helped with improved levels of Vitamin D.

https://www.nairaland.com/6144428/covid-19-patients-get-enough-vitamin

ojesymsym:
Only God see where you see me mention heat.

So which kind weather dey provide plenty sunlight and vitamin D if not hot weather?

ojesymsym:
The idea is not entirely a new one. The keyword is not on the heat from the sun but the vitamin D it is believe to provide.




https://www.nairaland.com/6364684/why-covid-19-spares-poor


https://www.nairaland.com/5869681/growing-evidence-vitamin-d-covid


https://www.nairaland.com/6144428/covid-19-patients-get-enough-vitamin

Enough vitamin D dey India with all their sunlight. Why is COVID spreading like wild fire there?

ojesymsym:
Only God see where you see me mention heat.

Sun should provide heat.

emmanuelewumi:
On the long run assets will be repriced. N1 million invested in real estate 40 years ago will beat inflation and currency devaluation

Lagos State sold duplexes for about N50,000 at Gbagada Phase 1 in the 80s.

N1 million will buy 20 units, each is currently valued at about N60 million. 20 units is valued at N1.2 billion, minimum rental income of N40 million or $80,000 per annum

The most important thing is to invest, reinvest and cash should not be more than 10% of your investment portfolio

Ok but that was then. The rate of inflation and naira devaluation was low.

Wondering if we project current inflation rate and speed of devaluation into the future whether the maths above can still hold?
If Naira ever gets to Zimbabwe depreciation levels, can the house really be reasonably priced then?

Lazyyouth4u:
Enough vitamin D dey India with all their sunlight. Why is COVID spreading like wild fire there?

Overcrowding, overpopulation. They stopped observing Covid 19 protocol.

I went to buy drugs at the Pharmacy last week, I was surprised when the sales girl said Oga why are you using face mask, Covid 19 is gone and defeated na

Biafran4life:
What is killing them over there is not the same covid in Nigeria space.I pray the truth comes out someday.

Maybe or maybe not but I believe it's the new variant of covid-19 it's deadly

ojesymsym:
Some people have said our sun provides Vit. D that helps reduce the spread. One may be tempted to believe because our markets especially the big ones are always packed full. Looks like staying in an air conditioned environment all the time reduces ones immunity. Just speculating

Possibly

libartay:
Ok but that was then. The rate of inflation and naira devaluation was low.

Wondering if we project current inflation rate and speed of devaluation into the future whether the maths above can still hold?
If Naira ever gets to Zimbabwe depreciation levels, can the house really be reasonably priced then?

Income generating assets will always be repriced. Some Investments are currently giving income that are 400% higher than what they gave me 12 years ago.

House rent of N5000 per annum in some parts of Lagos in 1990 is now N500,000 per annum

Always good to save and invest.

We save for the raining days and invest for the stormy years

emmanuelewumi:
Overcrowding, overpopulation. They stopped observing Covid 19 protocol.

I went to buy drugs at the Pharmacy last week, I was surprised when the sales girl said Oga why are you using face mask, Covid 19 is gone and defeated na

They will see you as a mad person because you putting on face mask. The new variant is in Nigeria but Govt is trying not to bring it to fore or the Media

Na wa o..this group has lost focus...I thought here was share money making information not deliberating Nigeria's woes na!!!

damilola1978:
Na wa o..this group has lost focus...I thought here was share money making information not deliberating Nigeria's woes na!!!

People are not paid to share this information, it won't be a bad idea if you could share some of the money making ideas you know or have learnt on this thread with us.

emmanuelewumi:
People are not paid to share this information, it won't be a bad idea if you could share some of the money making ideas you know or have learnt on this thread with us.

Lol! Savage response

damilola1978:
Just got this

i mean no disrespect, but i shared that ealier.... well you can carry on with discussing NIgeria's woes, while some people are silently still milking the cash cow.....

emmanuelewumi:
People are not paid to share this information, it won't be a bad idea if you could share some of the money making ideas you know or have learnt on this thread with us.

Hello Fellow investors and knowledgeable people

I saw Dangote Cement bond today at 3,5 and 7 years tenor between 11 to 13.5% yield .
Do u think it is a good investment and safe ?? ..ur advice will be appreciated. Thanks

akinola98:
Hello Fellow investors and knowledgeable people

I saw Dangote Cement bond today at 3,5 and 7 years tenor between 11 to 13.5% yield .
Do u think it is a good investment and safe ?? ..ur advice will be appreciated. Thanks

3 yrs for 11%, where did you see it.