[ExI] A puzzle

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 23:41:36 UTC 2020


 means a lot less heart attacks. No mornings means fewer
heart attacks.

Stuart LaForge

Good for you!  My mother, an English teacher would think well of you.
bill w

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 4:49 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Quoting John Clark:
>
> > Hospitals in the US and around the world are not as overwhelmed as they
> > might have been because emergency rooms report a 50% reduction in
> > non-COVID19 cases such as heart attacks, strokes, and even appendicitis.
> > It's reasonable to assume part of the reason for this is sick people are
> > reluctant to go to a hospital and possibly get infected, but that may not
> > be the entire answer. People are probably exercising less now, could they
> > have been doing too much before?
> >
> > Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone?
> > <
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/well/live/coronavirus-doctors-hospitals-emergency-care-heart-attack-stroke.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=517932151&imp_id=478355170&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage
> >
>
> My guess? Mornings where they have to get up early and rush off to
> work are very stressful for people with CVD. Since most heart attacks
> happen in the morning, people sleeping in every day because they have
> nowhere to go means a lot less heart attacks. No mornings means fewer
> heart attacks.
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
>
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