<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 11:19 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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The favourite suggestion seems to be that the crowded conditions mean<br>
that previously everyone has had many colds and flu coronavirus<br>
infections and this has given them a level of protection against<br>
Covid-19.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>### The Japanese in Tokyo, riding in an insanely crowded metro, didn't get much Covid, so yeah, crowding FTW!</div><div><br></div><div>Americans in NY, riding in an insanely crowded metro, got a crazy amount of Covid, so crowding ... not FTW?</div><div><br></div><div>All these order-of-magnitude differences between countries you see on:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="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">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</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>are puzzling.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div></div></div>