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John2290 said:
RolStoppable said:

Yes, that's the scary thing about your posts in this thread.

Fucked up times call for fucked up solutions. Let's just get the petrol robots fighting, at least we'll have some sport if it isn't enough work to save the economy.  

We all know how this would end:


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RolStoppable said:
JRPGfan said:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6075634/

Study from 2018.
found ~40% had deficiency of vitamin D.
39% of these people with deficiency where "Non-Hispanic African-Americans" (black) while they represent 16,5% of the population.
(ei. blacks make up disproportionate % of that) (same is true for Mexican-Americans, Hispanics ect) (lighter skin tone the less % you make up basically)

I've seen people quote 44%+, so I assume thats from a newer study.
Cant be arsed to look it up, but a large amount of people in the US have a vitamin D deficiency.

Enough for me to say "half".

Can't be bothered to click the link, but your explanation is bad. 39% of 40% is just under 16%, so black people would be affected right in line with what they make up of the total population.

Too drunk to do math then I clicked on link and too many words. Need sober person to do math.

From my understanding he is saying blacks are most affected yet they only make up like 15 percent of population.  Where does the other percent comes from Asians hiding from the sun in US?



Frankly I don't even know why we are focused on vitamin D deficiency. Is that some major scientific breakthrough that they realized everyone dying is lacking? I think we are going too specific and focusing on bullshit while overall health of population should be looked at.



SvennoJ said:
Trumpstyle said:

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.


The assumption for R0 at 2.2 is backed up by plenty evidence. It's reflected in doubling rates of reported deaths at early stages (before social distancing and lock downs have effect) Much more reliable than one test where only half the respondents returned samples.

How can you have an accurate R0 without knowing the true number of cases? It's an average anyway.

Scientists say a now-dominant strain of the coronavirus appears to be more contagious than original

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-05/mutant-coronavirus-has-emerged-more-contagious-than-original



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sethnintendo said:
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.

Vitamin D deficiency is common enough in developed countries due to reduced outdoor activities, indoor work and the use of sunscreens or protective clothing due to the fear of skin cancer

Australia being a very sunny country has about a quarter of its population suffering from Vitamin D deficiency as most Australians avoid the sun due to a comprehensive campaign to prevent skin cancer.. the irony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_deficiency_in_Australia

Older people can often be lockup inside not getting sunlight, this of course harms their immune system, even for a young person never seeing the sun this could be disastrous for their health, but younger people tend to be more mobile and get outside more so that helps them fight infections anyway    



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sethnintendo said:

Frankly I don't even know why we are focused on vitamin D deficiency.

And when did this become the "Vitamin D" thread?



https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzania-suspends-laboratory-head-after-president-questions-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN22G295



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RolStoppable said:
Nighthawk117 said:

And when did this become the "Vitamin D" thread?

When we were looking for a reason to say that black people are inferior to other races, because it didn't give us enough of a feeling of superiority when we declared obese people dumb for eating so much bad food.

At least obese people eat enough to keep their vitamin levels up :p

We can add blaming immigrants for not listening as well, instead of, maybe, putting refugees together in compounds, sharing the same communal areas and kitchens might just be the perfect way for the virus to spread.

It all comes down to money. Low income neighborhoods are hit harder, people living closer together, more per house, less space, more crowded shops, more 'real' jobs instead of sitting in a cubicle. And the inconvenient truth is that poverty rates are much higher among non whites.



Natural selection doing its work

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/canadians-are-accidentally-poisoning-themselves-while-cleaning-to-prevent-covid-19-coronavirus

From people experiencing burning eyes and trouble breathing to children drinking hand sanitizer, there's been a jump in the number of cleaner and disinfectant-related accidental poisonings since the COVID-19 pandemic began, as Canadians try to keep themselves and their homes virus-free.

According to Health Canada, February and March combined showed a 58 per cent increase from the same period a year earlier in reported exposures related to cleaning products, bleaches, disinfectants, hand sanitizers, and chlorine and chloramine gases.

Poisonings involving bleach are most common, making up 38 per cent of all calls to poison centres in March.

"One lady used a mixture of vinegar and chlorine bleach in a bucket trying to clean her counter at home and ended up in the hospital, because there was a large volume of chlorine gas being manufactured causing quite a bit of injury," said Chan.

The CDC recently reported a case of a preschool-aged girl who was found unresponsive at home after ingesting an unknown amount of ethanol-based hand sanitizer. According to the report, her blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit in most states.

Chemistry, another thing they don't teach in schools anymore? Next to math and reading there should be a "how not to kill yourself" class as well :)

I learned the hard way when I was 4 years old. My mother had cleaned the toilet with 2 different products or rather just poured them in there. When I flushed I almost got overwhelmed by the toxic gasses.



All I can say is...this thread had reached a new low...when we can blame the virus on obesity, lazyness, poverty, hunger, starvation, and lack of Vitamin D !!!

Are you guys real?