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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Sill via extropy-chat<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>…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.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Significant vitamin D production in the skin requires a large area of skin exposed to the sun…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That’s right. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Bikers aren't known for that….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is Sturgis. Hot, dry, open-minded.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Vitamin D production also decreases with age…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>They compensate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… I'm skeptical, but it <i>is</i> possible that even old Harley riders have higher levels of vitamin D than average. -Dave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Did you mean when they left home? Why would they have more than average?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>