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Exactly, blame seasonality in the bad time, ignore it in the good!

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/

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Success! Us, I mean we, grammer police NEVER stop until you have been perfected.

"...exactly what us [we] ‘seasonality theorists’ predicted..."

(I came back to look at that graph. What causes the very minor, but obvious, mid-summer peak? Peeps cluster inside from the evil sun? Pool chlorine runs out?)

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It gets so hot outside that people gather indoors.

Sorry I ignored your comment before because I saw grammar police and you know how we should never talk to the cops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

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Note the edit.

We. Never. Stop. (note to self: fix these non-sentences asap.)

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C'mon now, 'fess up. You just stuck some cat ears on a squirrel, right?

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Don't worry Dr. F, his fellow Statists, and fellow-traveller-control-freaks worldwide:

Another season is always just around the corner!

(I thought maybe that crowd was feeling a little down lately, and perhaps needed a little pick-me-up.)

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If you recommend sunlight and Vitamin D, your medical license should be revoked

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Of course you are right.

"Proofing your work is for girlie girls"

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"...and comment sections." (We'll make sure you get it right, M. John!)

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Please check me! I love criticism.

I ask wife, kids to add to my Confession list! If I'm lying I'm dying

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Seasonality must not be allowed to disrupt the "vaccines work" narrative, although it will likely become an essential part of the "get your seasonal boosters!" campaign.

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Do sun lamps help? The epidemic minimum always coincides with a solar maximum.

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Not sure at all about sun lamps. I suppose if they prod you to produce Vitamin D, they would help. That said, Vitamin D supplements are pretty much always a good idea in winter.

Edit: Some searching around and I found this:

"People most commonly use sun lamps to treat a form of depression called seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or to help their body make vitamin D."

So I'd say they probably help, provided it prods your body to actually produce vitamin D.

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I always thought the correlation of Vitamin D with better health could be incidental: Healthy people get outside more, where they get sunlight that stimulates Vitamin D production.

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I haven't thought too deeply about it, but I'm sure we could check on people who work out indoors a lot and don't get sun, or people who are outdoors a lot but are unhealthy. I wouldn't even know where to start.

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who would have thought the gompertz curve was a real thing

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YoU jUsT dOnT uNdErStAnD eXpOnEnTiAl!

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ItS JuSt A ShOt, WhY U ScArEd?

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Even Governor Newsollini reports he’s working on a fresh plan for the looming endemic. Bet the house he won’t be lifting any shot mandates, sadly.

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This fate is possible. To the very powerful.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1yAWVddk2mU

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We’re already seeing it in King County WA too. https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/key-indicators.aspx

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