[ExI] dead bikers

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:14 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> So why did the virus not spread like wildfire in California at that rally?
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> Possibility: masks don’t really help as much as we think, but… perhaps…
> direct sunlight on skin does.
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### It's complicated. Masks do help - but only in some circumstances.
Prolonged exposure indoors with relatively high population densities,
direct prolonged contact with Covid patients (e.g. performing an admission
or consultation on a coughing patient in the ED), aerosol-producing
procedures, yes, in all these situations masks help, possibly by reducing
the size of the inoculum, as Dave Sill wrote. But outdoors, or while
shopping at low density in the typical grocery store, or in the vast
majority of situations where the Karens hiss at you they don't make any
difference.

It's complicated - sunlight shining on your skin kills viruses, and it also
dries and sterilizes aerosols in the air you breathe, so you are much less
likely to get infected outside. This is a direct effect. There is also the
indirect effect achieved by increasing vitamin D levels - but it doesn't
play much of a role in protecting the bikers, since a couple of days riding
hogs while wearing leathers doesn't increase your vitamin D levels that
much.

I am taking 5000 units of D per day, which given my nocturnal habit and
ghostly pale aspect is just enough to keep the level around 60.


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> 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.
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### Yes, the lockdowns are barking mad insane.

Rafal
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