[ExI] Mouth breathers less susceptible to covid?

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Dave Sill via extropy-chat



>…Takeaway: if Sturgis is a conspicuous sub-spreader event, we gotta lotta splainin to do.  Don’t brush this off please: there is apparently a big important signal hiding here and we scientific types know about it.  My friends, we gotta lotta splainin to do.

 

>…Significant vitamin D production in the skin requires a large area of skin exposed to the sun…

 

That’s right.  

 

>…Bikers aren't known for that….

 

This is Sturgis.  Hot, dry, open-minded.

 

>…Vitamin D production also decreases with age…

 

They compensate.

 

>… I'm skeptical, but it is possible that even old Harley riders have higher levels of vitamin D than average.  -Dave

 

Did you mean when they left home?  Why would they have more than average?

 

Idea: perhaps skin that isn’t normally exposed is more efficient at vitamin D production than that which sees a lot of sun?  The rest of the time, the Sturgis people are in the office, dressed as ordinary people, then they cut loose for a coupla weeks every summer, show off their tattoos that the office people have never seen.  All that pale skin exposed for the first time in 11 months, vitamin D goes up, result: half the expected infection rate and less than a tenth the fatality rate?

 

spike

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