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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    For Christ’s sake are you barking mad? Where do you get all these lunatic conspiracy theories? No, normal folk who aren’t deluded don’t think that BBC is “corrupt” or a “propaganda and misinformation machine”. What’s this crap about investors & shareholders funding the trial? Both PRINCIPLE...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    There is an excellent discussion of Ivermectin in the BBC Radio Four programme 'More or Less' "Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?" The conclusion is that there is no good evidence that Ivermectin is effective in prevention or treatment of COVID-19. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct2dk5...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    I'm not a GP & while I hadn't read that paper before it doesn't contradict what I said. This paper is from 2004 & mainly discusses AIDS, Malaria, schistosomiasis etc in developing countries. It also discusses health risks in pregnancy. The death rate in males from COVID-19 is about 50% higher...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    One very unusual feature is that if you are male your chances of dying are about 50% higher than if you are female. I know of no other infectious disease that demonstrates this gender disparity. BTW The reason that Ivermectin isn't used is because there is no good evidence that it works. As far...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    There is a lot of nonsense in those recommendations for which there is no evidence of efficacy eg Vitamin C & Ivermectin. In the UK the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) publishes excellent evidence based recommendations on management & treatment...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    Here is more explanation... "Gibraltar, the British overseas territory next to Spain is benefitting from the UK’s vaccine rollout, by far the fastest in Europe. Over the coming days it will become the first territory in the world where all residents over 16 who wanted a jab have got one." "To...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    Here is just one example. Care home workers who live in Spain & work in Gibraltar. https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-12-07/the-first-spaniards-to-get-the-coronavirus-vaccine-cross-border-workers-in-gibraltar.html
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    Unfortunately the COVID deniers & Antivaxxers are a cult that is not amenable to reason.
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    You were spouting utter tripe regarding hospital admissions in the UK & now it appears that you have completely lost your marbles. It's very simple to explain the Gibraltar statistics. The population of Gibraltar is about 34,000 but every day about 14,000 workers who live in Spain stream across...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    This is utter tripe. In the UK 60% of those in hospital with COVID-19 are unvaccinated yet only 12% of the adult population is unvaccinated. Your chances of serious illness & death are many times more likely if you are unvaccinated.
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    I am a practising doctor. I work as a consultant in Emergency Medicine. I'm seeing COVID-19 patients on a daily basis & am pretty sure that I know more about this subject than others posting on this forum. You are playing with words. All vaccines work in effect by being antigens that stimulate...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    You obviously don't understand what vaccines are or how they work. It generally depends on the disease being prevented how effective the vaccine will be as the mimic infection by generating an immune response by any of a variety of means (live attenuated virus, dead virus, mRNA, virus antigen...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    Of course the vaccines work. They are extremely effective in reducing serious illness leading to hospital admission & death. In the UK while only 12% of the adult population are unvaccinated they make up 60% of hospital admissions with COVID-19.
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    well plod ceased my m8s ebike last night

    They certainly will not & even if they did it wouldn't be evidence. If the police require a blood test for drink or drugs they call their own Forensic Medical Examiner (FME) to come & take the blood test.
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    Do they make removable water bottle cages?

    The certainly do make removable water bottle cages as I've just removed one from my Wisper 705 Torque that the previous owner had fitted. I found it annoying on a step through bike to catch my foot on the cage when stepping through.
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    Disc brakes onto a “ladies” bike

    It is worth looking out for a suitable bike used. My wife & I between us have bought a couple of Woosh & one Wisper step through with hydraulic disc brakes for £450, £500 & £800 respectively.
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    It's simple to see that vaccination prevents serious consequences of the disease. Less than 13% of the adult population in the UK is unvaccinated yet they make up 60% of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19.
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    Woosh Woosh Big Bear LS - too much assistance!

    I'm the OP & the bike will be advertised for sale on the Woosh website next month when I get back from France. I am in Essex but as your forum name is belfastbiker I assume that buying mine is not an option due to our locations.
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    e scooters - a menace?

    Firstly by major retailers like Halfords selling e-Scooters only mentioning in the small print that they are illegal to use pretty much anywhere.
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    Woosh Woosh Big Bear LS - too much assistance!

    By way of comparison I rode one of my other e-bikes yesterday afternoon a Woosh Sundowner https://wooshbikes.co.uk/?sundowner This felt much more natural to pedal & I was never in the situation where there was no resistance on the pedals. I don't know whether that is because the motor is less...