[ExI] dead bikers

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 09:19:54 UTC 2020


On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 11:19 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> The favourite suggestion seems to be that the crowded conditions mean
> that previously everyone has had many colds and flu coronavirus
> infections and this has given them a level of protection against
> Covid-19.


### The Japanese in Tokyo, riding in an insanely crowded metro, didn't get
much Covid, so yeah, crowding FTW!

Americans in NY, riding in an insanely crowded metro, got a crazy amount of
Covid, so crowding ... not FTW?

All these order-of-magnitude differences between countries you see on:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&year=latest&time=2019-12-31..2020-09-08&country=Africa~Europe~NorthAmerica~Oceania~SouthAmerica~OWID_WRL~Asia~USA~SWE&region=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&hideControls=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc

are puzzling.

Rafal
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