“But you act like smoking is going to save people from covid.”
No, I’m saying I believe smoking is going to save people from dying from Covid. That’s the premise of the article, and it supports itself with 10 hotlinks to studies showing exactly that. It convinced me.
You may not like it. It’s clear you are a vehement anti-smoker. That’s fine. But ignoring the evidence and refusing to accept the conclusion, well, I can’t help you with that.
Critical Thinking is a skill that must be learned and practiced to master. It takes awhile to become someone willing to go where the evidence leads, and a truly advanced mind to change a hard-held opinion based on the evidence, not a feeling. Keep trying; perhaps you will get there one day. You’re obviously not there now.
Well developed critical thinking is you reading a Chinese study and concluding “No, I’m saying I believe smoking is going to save people from dying from Covid.” in spite of other articles indicating the opposite.
OK, LOL!
What does your well developed and superior critical thinking skills tell you about this article??
“We identified five studies that reported data on the smoking status of patients infected with COVID-19. Notably, in the largest study that assessed severity, there were higher percentages of current and former smokers among patients that needed ICU support, mechanical ventilation or who had died, and a higher percentage of smokers among the severe cases12. However, from their published data we can calculate that the smokers were 1.4 times more likely (RR=1.4, 95% CI: 0.98–2.00) to have severe symptoms of COVID-19 and approximately 2.4 times more likely to be admitted to an ICU, need mechanical ventilation or die compared to non-smokers (RR=2.4, 95% CI: 1.43–4.04).
In conclusion, although further research is warranted as the weight of the evidence increases, with the limited available data, and although the above results are unadjusted for other factors that may impact disease progression, smoking is most likely associated with the negative progression and adverse outcomes of COVID-19.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7083240/