+26,692 New Cases
88,507 TOTAL DEAD
Gyms should be open in Texas on Monday. Cases have actually been climbing slightly in Texas (but still a low number) so I am glad Abbott is ignoring that and opening things up.
Is one good outcome that we will have from this CV fiasco that people will be more aware of vitamin D deficiency? I have heard from our family doctor for years that just a majority of the US is deficient in Vitamin D. All of this talk has inspired me to get sun everyday and to be thankful that I live in Texas where you don’t freeze to death when you go outside.
Ping. Freepmail Impimp to go on the ping list.
Shouldn’t this be day 58?
In Alaska my naturalistic chiropractor recommended I take 5000 units of D all winter. He pointed out that cancer incidences in the public are directly parallel to the latitude. The higher you get the higher the cancer rates.
Looking forward to more of Texas opening up on Monday. On the other hand, not thrilled with the news that Musk has Austin picked as one of the “finalists” for relocating Tesla. I hope he picks Tulsa.
“people will be more aware of vitamin D deficiency”
*We are more indoors than ever before.
*We have been told for a couple of decades that any exposure to sunlight will cause immediate death from skin cancer.
*We eat a worse diet than at any time in modern history.
*Our population has the lowest percentage of white people ever.
*Our population is fatter than ever before.
*Our population is older than ever before.
These factors all add up to Vitamin D deficiency. Even if it’s not the cause for anything directly related to COVID-19 (it probably is), it’s still not a good thing.
“It’s just the flu, bro.”
Tens of thousands of Americans dead in weeks due to a ChiCom Virus escaped out of a bio lab.
As President Trump said, “this is not the flu.”
But here we have a pimped thread for ignorance. SMH.
My wife and I went for a checkup a couple of months ago. We were both found to be severely vitamin D deficient, even though she spends a lot of time outdoors with her horses. Our doc prescribed 50,000 IU a week for eight weeks, then 5,000 IU a day forever to both of us. We are in the mid-Atlantic area.
In working class areas of New York City, subways have never stopped being crowded over the last 2 months, especially since they cut service, especially during rush hour, and especially as more and more people are ignoring the shelter in place recommendations..... It’s funny how members of the “lockdowns work” cult are convinced that allowing stores, restaurants, and hair salons to open in Georgia before some arbitrary benchmark was met, is going to lead to a death spike, yet riding crowded subways in New York City has got to be at least as risky as getting your hair cut in Savannah.... meanwhile, the death rate in New York has been steadily declining for the last month, and would probably be a lot less by now if Cuomo had protected people in nursing homes
Sunshine = Vitamin D and UV. I’ve gotten a good dose of sun, and will continue to do so. Possibly even too good, but what the heck. Outside is where it’s at!
Also taking a multivitamin now with a higher level of Vitamin D and Zinc, just in case. One of those “don’t necessarily need it, but it won’t hurt”. And given my eating habits sometimes, there are undoubtedly gaps that need filling at times.
When you all can...get your D levels tested...don’t just count taking on sun or supplements ...your level should be 60-80 optimally. ...but most docs think lower is fine. Some people just need more.
San Diego supervisor says only 6 of 194 coronavirus deaths are “pure coronavirus deaths”.
Cases in Texas may be climbing slightly, but is that reflective of an increase in actual infections or just testing?
Also, cases are not climbing in Houston, despite the increase in testing. In Houston, looking at Harris County’s “dashboard,” it looks like new cases plateaued back in mid March. Also, the number of “recovered” cases is catching up to the number of “active” cases: 3,566 to 5,285.
Remember all the doomsayers who predicted that Houston would see the next New York style epidemic, with thousands dead and overwhelmed hospitals?
Instead, we have suppressed a county of 4.7 million over a disease that has been detected in about 1 person in 500 and has killed less than 1 in 20,000.
And, having lived and worked in this county the whole time, I don’t believe for a second those numbers were the result of any “lockdown.”
Lina Hidalgo is up for re-election in 2 years. I sure hope the voters remember.
Cases climbed in Texas yesterday primarily due to large-scale testing at meat plants in Potter and Randall Counties (Amarillo).
Also, keeping with the Houston theme: Remember all the fear about how they kept the Houston Rodeo going after SXSW was cancelled in Austin? And how the Rodeo ran for 8 days and probably saw over a million visitors before it was closed? And then the news a few days later that 4 people caught Covid from the same BBQ Cook Off tent?
How many people caught Covid from the Rodeo? Well, the only numbers I can find are from a pair of April 20 articles in two leftist news sites: ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Both articles are decidedly pro-lockdown and accuse officials of being reckless. But, buried in the articles, the best they could come up with over a month later was that 18 people who attended the Rodeo tested positive for Covid.
Not 18 deaths, just positive tests. Not 18 people who got it at the Rodeo. Just 18 who went to the Rodeo and maybe got it there or maybe got it somewhere else. 18 out of probably more than 1 million visitors.
Someone tell me again why we can’t have sports or events with crowds?
It’s not the flu, bro.
It’s one giant power grabbing, disgusting, unconstitutional #Tyrannogasm.
And it is making all the little tyrants go blind.
~Easy