Yes, absolutely.

First of all, there are enough dumb Americans (like the couple who swallowed their disinfectant after Orangehead mentioned it) who wouldn't know how to handle it. Secondly, a few minutes in the sun would do the same and costs nothing.

Little update on the ice cream stand last Sunday. According to my wife a bunch of people got fined CAD 700 for standing around in the parking lot eating ice cream, not observing social distancing rules. Expensive Sundae.

New York State placed that order in response to the tweet at Trump.  Can we at least keep facts straight?  It's the reason I come into this thread as little as possible.

As New York state grappled with the devastating effects of the novel coronavirus, officials paid more than $69 million for 1,450 ventilators that they never received after enlisting the help of a California man who responded to one of President Trump’s tweets

Within days, New York ordered 1,450 ventilators for $69.1 million, which, according to the report, means each item costs $47,656 – or at least three times the standard price.

On March 30, Oren-Pines received what the report called “the largest single payment made by the New York Department of Health under an executive order issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month.

Cuomo’s executive order allowed the state to pay for medical supplies before an order was filled

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/new-york-coronavirus-ventilators-trump-twitter

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495455-engineer-that-got-69m-contract-after-tweeting-trump-never-provided

Ha, if they're too dumb to take vitamins properly, what makes you think they're smart enough to stand in the sun without screwing that up too? More seriously, I wonder if a few minutes of sun is really the equivalent to vitamins. I have to doubt that but I know nothing on the subject.

Yea one should be able to get enough vitamin D from sun. You can get some through food but main source would be sun. Understand older people and perhaps people with dark skin might not absorb much. I've never heard of too many people in developed nation's having vitamin D deficiency.

Researcher Killed In Apparent Murder-Suicide Was Close To ‘Making Very Significant Findings’ Related To COVID-19, Pitt Says

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/05/04/ross-township-apparent-murder-suicide/

I got it from twitter, I read some people twitter accounts that are critical of Anders Tegnell/Johan Giesecke.

But listening what he said it sounds more that the R number will hover around 1 and will eventually come down. But I hope it's true and they will start easing guildelines when Stockholm gets in order.

https://www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/anders-tegnell-sveriges-r-tal-guppar-runt-ettan/ (swedish only)

What I mean with assumption is that we don't know when people were infected in Stockholm, they just found out someone in Dec had Covid in France, another assumption is R2.2.

Why can't we just do 5-10% infected at end of March with 1806 confirmed cases and 8033 confirmed cases on april 30. That 's 4,4x increase, so 22%-44% in Stockholm had been infected by April 30. This basing on antibodies showing that 10% had been infected by end of march and our government estimate 75x more infection compared to confirmed cases.

As for the rest, I don't know why people are comparing us to Norway, Denmark now as they hasn't open up their society yet, they will do it. Let's w8 I expect they will give up on mass testing/tracing/quarantine/self-isolation and just mimic us.

Our immigrant communities, I remember something about they being hit extra hard because our government tried to communicate in Swedish only, we now doing it in multiple languanges.

I think this has been a problem for migrants in almost all the European countries, except probably the UK. Linguistic integration is less of a problem for English speaking countries than it is for Scandinavian countries and low lands. 

As for vitamin D, I hate to be that guy, but you don't pass vitamin D in your urine even if you ingest excess amounts. That would be vitamin B and C as they're water-based.

Sun exposure isn't a guaranteed method of getting enough vitamin D especially if you live in a big city, as polluted air prevents the sun rays from forming vitamin D. With that said, the optimum levels of vitamin D are still being debated as many people with low vitamin D levels lead healthy lives well into their 70s/80s, so testing for deficiency is only advised when you experience symptoms of deficiency or if you belong to a certain age groups with increased risk of fractures.