It's easy to see how basic science like this leads to people flocking to not-fully-proven solutions.
I need to not catch COVID-19 for around five weeks. My wife is due to give birth, and if I'm COVID positive I can't be with her in the hospital. If she catches COVID, that's also a really bad situation. So naturally, I'm pretty desperate for any shred of hope or control. Reading this, my instinct is to walk over to the nearest dispensary and buy a lot of CBD.
But this study is very preliminary. It's early. This could have been a fluke of the data. There could be effects not being correctly measured.
And so I have to have this great internal debate: "There's nothing unsafe about this; I have no issues with using CBD; this might help; I've got nothing else I can really do other than lock myself up at home, which I'm doing". Vs "The science isn't there; I'm already triple vaccinated; and the very act of leaving home to go buy CBD is an exposure risk".
I need to not catch COVID-19 for around five weeks. My wife is due to give birth, and if I'm COVID positive I can't be with her in the hospital. If she catches COVID, that's also a really bad situation. So naturally, I'm pretty desperate for any shred of hope or control. Reading this, my instinct is to walk over to the nearest dispensary and buy a lot of CBD.
But this study is very preliminary. It's early. This could have been a fluke of the data. There could be effects not being correctly measured.
And so I have to have this great internal debate: "There's nothing unsafe about this; I have no issues with using CBD; this might help; I've got nothing else I can really do other than lock myself up at home, which I'm doing". Vs "The science isn't there; I'm already triple vaccinated; and the very act of leaving home to go buy CBD is an exposure risk".