[ExI] dead bikers

[spike at rainier66.com]

>…Why are so few bikers perishing of covid?  Do offer something to suggest why we are seeing as much as an order of magnitude fewer than we would expect, even if that rally wasn’t a spreader at all.  Ideas please?  Otherwise I will offer a notion that I damn well hope is right, having little to do with my own 105 horsepower vaccine waiting in my garage… spike

 

Mike Dougherty posted me offlist an idea I have had for some time, on a list of possibilities he considered.  I urged him to forward that offlist to here.  I cannot feel free to post here what he posted to me privately, but I will tell the idea that seems plausible to me and why.

 

If we randomly chose half a million Americans and put a tattoo on them, something unusual, such as “Didn’t go to Sturgis in 2020, too dangerous, if dead of covid, call 555-100-DEAD.”

 

Then any time a coroner coroned a corpse and saw that message, she would report.  If so, we should be hearing about one of those a day.

 

Sturgis started a month ago.  So far we are hearing of the first Sturgis stiff today, the first one.  That is a big anomaly.

 

If you chose an age demographic to match the Sturgis crowd, and looked at the typical fatality rate, it is about half again in the age range I so fondly recall from those kinds of events, so we should be seeing one or two a day.  But we aren’t.

 

So why did the virus not spread like wildfire in California at that rally?

 

Possibility: masks don’t really help as much as we think, but… perhaps… direct sunlight on skin does.

 

Reasoning: it has long been suggested that low vitamin D levels might contribute to that reaction that slays proles with covid.  We know that sunlight on skin produces the kind of vitamin D that even swallowing a pill does not accomplish.  We know that there is always one hellllll of a lotta skin showing at the annual Sturgis rally (even if it is actually the kind of skin even an old horndog would pretty much rather not see (details not available (use your imagination (oh mercy, here comes granny biker chick again (they say she was quite the looker during the Harding administration.)))))

 

The scary part: if getting out in the sun helps protect from covid, nearly everything we have done to combat covid was wrong.  Not just wrong, it was pi radians wrong.

 

spike

 

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