When the vapers lost their sense of smell and taste, they called it vape tongue because it was such a distinctive symptom. When I lost the same in a mild case of COVID it was unique to any sensory dulling I've had from illnesses before and was the distinct symptom beyond the cough/aches.
I'm totally on board with the mysterious vaping disease being COVID. I think it was Italy that had mysterious pneumomia deaths later in 2019 too.
I thought the vaping illness was linked to a bad batch of ∆9-THC cartridges which used vitamin E to thin out the distillate. I could def be wrong, lemme look back into it.
I thought the vaping illness was linked to a bad batch of ∆9-THC cartridges which used vitamin E
This is false, it's a common counterargument. There were vape pneumonia cases where there was no vitamin E additive. Nathan Rich goes over this in detail.
When the vapers lost their sense of smell and taste, they called it vape tongue because it was such a distinctive symptom. When I lost the same in a mild case of COVID it was unique to any sensory dulling I've had from illnesses before and was the distinct symptom beyond the cough/aches.
I'm totally on board with the mysterious vaping disease being COVID. I think it was Italy that had mysterious pneumomia deaths later in 2019 too.
I thought the vaping illness was linked to a bad batch of ∆9-THC cartridges which used vitamin E to thin out the distillate. I could def be wrong, lemme look back into it.
This is false, it's a common counterargument. There were vape pneumonia cases where there was no vitamin E additive. Nathan Rich goes over this in detail.
I do remember reading about bootleg carts causing some trouble back then for sure