A lot of Australian outback towns like Broken Hill are seeing an extended tourist season this year as people who would normally go overseas are staying in the country. One comment I read is that they are cashed up and willing to spend, unlike the typical grey nomads.
Vitamin D supplements are not necessary if you exercise outdoors.
I read that 40% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient. That sounds about right given the current popularity of "sitting" and the reported health outcomes.
Those of us in more northern climes don't get enough sun exposure for much of the year because of the low angle of the sun in the sky. I was outdoors 4-5 hours a day, but had the lowest vitamin D levels my doc ever saw. HIghest the sun gets here nowadays is about 20 degrees. 60 degrees in summer. Nothing to do with inactivity. Simple geography.
Don't think that the lower level of the sun is the only factor here. The lower the sun the greater your body surface area is presented to the sun. Here in Western Australia where I live we spend a lot of year almost standing in our own shadow with the sun being relatively high over us in the sky ,still many people are now presenting with low V10 levels . The move towards wearing protective sun clothing and a good fear of our serious skin cancer risks keeping indoors more are coming into play here. If you cover up top to toe in your region BlueHeronDruid due to the cooler weather, chances of getting bodily exposure to sun is going to be low no matter how long you are exposed. May be going nude may resolve part of your problem.
BHD can be found laying buck naked on the beach most sunny winter days.
Vitamin D supplements are not necessary if you exercise outdoors.
I read that 40% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient. That sounds about right given the current popularity of "sitting" and the reported health outcomes.
Those of us in more northern climes don't get enough sun exposure for much of the year because of the low angle of the sun in the sky. I was outdoors 4-5 hours a day, but had the lowest vitamin D levels my doc ever saw. HIghest the sun gets here nowadays is about 20 degrees. 60 degrees in summer. Nothing to do with inactivity. Simple geography.
Don't think that the lower level of the sun is the only factor here. The lower the sun the greater your body surface area is presented to the sun. Here in Western Australia where I live we spend a lot of year almost standing in our own shadow with the sun being relatively high over us in the sky ,still many people are now presenting with low V10 levels . The move towards wearing protective sun clothing and a good fear of our serious skin cancer risks keeping indoors more are coming into play here. If you cover up top to toe in your region BlueHeronDruid due to the cooler weather, chances of getting bodily exposure to sun is going to be low no matter how long you are exposed. May be going nude may resolve part of your problem.
There are plenty around here that are customers I have spoken to who have not traveled south to Florida this year as well because of the bug. They are mostly very well to do seniors.
Regarding tourism, California has to be especially hard hit in this department. I believe it may be at least one of their top 3 industries if not number one.
Yeah, this is an interesting but not very definitive article. They were very careful not to over-interpret the data but I think they could have drawn stronger conclusions. The basic problem is to try and figure out if covid deaths are over-reported or under-reported. In my opinion, many if not all deaths above normal attributed to some other causes like influenza and Alzheimer's most likely were attributable to covid or to a combination of diseases (which still puts them in the covid class since, without covid there wouldn't be excess deaths unless you have another explanation. Note that the first peak in other cause deaths precedes the covid peak - since there weren't reliable covid tests then and people were still figuring out what is going on. But the second peak pretty much matches up and I don't see how you would get that if it wasn't actually from covid, at least in part. So you have diseases where symptoms are similar and the timing is similar.
Unfortunately they don't provide the time-trend for each disease separately. Diabetes is less clear. The simple explanation is that someone has diabetes and dies so they blamed it, when it was probably covid, too. But I don't know if it is possible that more people died from it because they weren't getting the healthcare they needed or weren't taking their medicine because they couldn't afford it or whatever. If that was the case, you wouldn't expect it to peak when covid does, but we don't have the plots to look at that. I suppose heart disease could go either way mis-attributed or collateral damage. The article should have done more to try and sort it out and should have made stronger conclusions that there are a bunch of undercounted covid deaths, even if that isn't the whole story.
Vitamin D supplements are not necessary if you exercise outdoors.
I read that 40% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient. That sounds about right given the current popularity of "sitting" and the reported health outcomes.
Those of us in more northern climes don't get enough sun exposure for much of the year because of the low angle of the sun in the sky. I was outdoors 4-5 hours a day, but had the lowest vitamin D levels my doc ever saw. HIghest the sun gets here nowadays is about 20 degrees. 60 degrees in summer. Nothing to do with inactivity. Simple geography.
same here... I do a lot of outdoor stuff, like sitting on clods of dirt watching my 2 yr old watch the tractors or go visit the sheep or the ducks. Also very low Vitamin D. We all have it. Not sure about the sheep and the ducks though.
Vitamin D supplements are not necessary if you exercise outdoors.
I read that 40% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient. That sounds about right given the current popularity of "sitting" and the reported health outcomes.
Those of us in more northern climes don't get enough sun exposure for much of the year because of the low angle of the sun in the sky. I was outdoors 4-5 hours a day, but had the lowest vitamin D levels my doc ever saw. HIghest the sun gets here nowadays is about 20 degrees. 60 degrees in summer. Nothing to do with inactivity. Simple geography.
Vitamin D supplements are not necessary if you exercise outdoors.
I read that 40% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient. That sounds about right given the current popularity of "sitting" and the reported health outcomes.
“This isn’t really unexpected,” she said of this week’s raid. “You take down a governor, he’s going to come for you. Six months ago, I was just a scientist trying to do my job.”
i haven't checked this conspiracy out
hasn't been a lot on the news that i've seen
except a blurb about her accessing/hacking the state system when she wasn't authorized
He offered to loan a pair of them to the P.E.I. provincial government. They took him up on the offer, picking the freezers up earlier this week with a transport truck.
"Because we buy and have this type of equipment, we know it's not something you just find at your local Leon's," said Tompkins, the owner of One Tuna in North Lake, P.E.I.
He's also refused any kind of payment for them, turning down P.E.I.'s offer to rent the freezers while in its possession.
that and our government can't even cut a simple check to the people that need it
"We Got OURS. Not just in 2017 with a trillion dollar deficit busting tax cut, but slid inside the second Covid rescue package, another 10 Million dollar tax cut. And let's not forget the Senators who had interests in businesses that received some of the PPP funding."
Translation: "We are allowing the culling of those that can't make it. People of color, women, elderly... saving us Billions in Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security taxes to pay."
Gilded Age on Steroids. Too bad that Pro-Life ends at Birth.
He offered to loan a pair of them to the P.E.I. provincial government. They took him up on the offer, picking the freezers up earlier this week with a transport truck.
"Because we buy and have this type of equipment, we know it's not something you just find at your local Leon's," said Tompkins, the owner of One Tuna in North Lake, P.E.I.
He's also refused any kind of payment for them, turning down P.E.I.'s offer to rent the freezers while in its possession.
