Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes, founder and chief executive officer of Theranos Inc., left, and Christian Holmes arrive at a state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama in honor of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015.

thats why. to quote the late George Carlin (may he rip) it’s one big club and we aint in it

cant wait for her to release the vaccine, what a visionary she is.

According to recent studies, smokers are twice likely to catch Covid-19 and have twice the chances of contracting a severe form of the disease.

The results of new research contradict an old study that had circulated a lot at the start of the health crisis. Based on information from patients with Covid-19 in China, it affirmed that smokers were on average less affected by Covid-19 and envisaged a beneficial effect of nicotine on the treatment of the disease; hypotheses now denied.

Not surprised by this finding in the slightest.
I am a bit surprised, however, that it took this long to settle this debate. There's a gigantic gender split in smoking rates in China, so no matter if smoking is beneficial or detrimental, data from China should have shown a clear gender difference in covid outcomes since the very beginning.

still, there's a flaw: nicotine patches are not hurting lungs so...

I dont think nicotine patches are widespread in China, at least not relative to oldschool cigarettes.

my remark is not linked with china, im talking about getting the inhibitor without weakening lungs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8615839/More-40-members-family-contract-COVID-19-infected-relative-attended-funeral.html

at some point people should be charged for knowingly exposing people to this thing and making no attempts to prevent it

But in California they decriminalized knowingly exposing people to HIV

Based