Social media is the gift that just keeps on giving. Dropped into my LinkedIn page this morning to see a fund manager – that is someone who takes other peoples money and trades it proclaim that the recent rise in the price of orange juice futures was because people thought vitamin C was good for COVID-19 so were buying more orange juice.
FFS you moron have you not considered structural issues such as transport restrictions and problems with getting enough workers to pick the harvest before opting for a simpletons reasoning.
So when you look at your statements for your managed investments and you see how badly they are doing this should give you a clue.
This is not quite as daft as it seems. Logistical requirements aside there is considerable evidence that Vit C improves the immune system and hence resistance to all viruses, not just COVID-19. The amount of Vit C from orange juice is however quite inadequate. The value of Vitamin C has been known since original research in the 1930’s by Albert Szent-Györgyi and in 1970 research by Nobel prizewinner Linus Pauling backed up the research. Since then there have been about 1,200,000 research papers on the subject.
However, just as the tobacco companies ruthlessly suppressed research showing cigarettes were addictive and the cause of many diseases, the pharmaceutical companies have suppressed or ridiculed information about Vitamin C as it is cheap, non-patentable and could make a serious dent on drug companies profits. Doctors in Australia who have been involved with Vitamin C and almost every other form of alternative medicine, rather than promoting expensive pharmaceutical prescriptions, have been struck off. This is because most post graduate medical training is funded by the drug companies.
It is estimated 453,000 people have died from prescription pain killers in the USA.