1 I've been reading all sorts of discussions about weather and the virus. Discussions about how coldness and/or low humidity keeps the cilia in the nose from moving. About how viruses don't like high temperatures. (Except that 80 degrees is not a high temperature to a virus.)


No one talks about the known fact that disease is far more transmissable indoors than outdoors, and people stay outdoors in warm weather and indoors in cold weather. Duh.

2 Ding! Ding! Ding!  Bill takes the prize for astute commentary!

I have been thinking along these lines myself; I remembered reading how diseases used to be passed along in winter because people congregated inside for too long. Poor ventilation and overcrowding used to make people in the north - like the Innuit - prone to sickness.

3 So why are Democrat governors, especially in the South, so rabid about closing beaches? They are outdoors, and for the most part, people go to them when the sun is shining, increasing peoples' exposure to Vitamin D, which is also A Good Thing.
Yeah, I know. Don't bother to try to make sense of Democrats. I should have just left it as "So why are Democrat governors, especially in the South, so rabid?"

4 It's not about health but punishing America for Trump, Dana. People LIKE the beach.

5 True. And a lot of Democrats are the kind of people who lie awake nights, worrying about the fact that there are people who are actually having fun, even in these locked-down times.