Newsflash: It is Hot in Phoenix

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NEWSFLASH: It is hot in Phoenix. A quick search says that the temperature is 105° Fahrenheit or 41° Celsius. It is a red flag day. I spent several summers in Phoenix. I had a job where I was sent to Phoenix during the summer months, while the preferred employees of the company migrated north. I remember it was so hot that airplane tires melted as the planes sat on the runway. During these months, I would spend all day in doors and come out in the evenings. The picture shows the Immaculate Heart Church between downtown and the airport. Anyway, there has been a surge in COVID19 cases in the sunbelt. The news media contends that this is a direct result of Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa. I think the data shows something else. People in the sunbelt tend to stay indoors during the summer. People in the sunbelt avoid direct sunlight. The UV-B rays from the sun convert cholesterol in our skin into Vitamin D. (UV-B rays also cause skin cancer). This is the easiest spectrum to block. For example: It does not make its way through windows. The best time to get UV-B rays is at noon. The best way to get vitamin D is to go into the sun, without sunscreen, and to expose skin at noon for a few minutes. Anyway, since it is hot in the sunbelt, people don't go out in the sun and they actually see a dip in their Vitamin D levels. If there is a correlation between Vitamin D and COVID19; one would expect a spike in cases and an increase in the severity of cases during the hot summer months when people shelter in doors. I think the Tulsa rally was foolish. I lived near Tulsa in a small town name Pryor for a few years. It would get hot and humid and people would spend their summer days indoors. Did I mention that it gets hot in Phoenix? I had a brown pickup truck, without an air conditioner, at the time. I found that I could not get in the truck during the day because it was so blazing hot. I suspect that it will be a tough summer for people in The Valley of Sun. The association that Phoenix has with the sun does not mean that people will not suffer vitamin D deficiency. Oddly the problem occurs in the summer and not the winter. The spike in COVID19 cases in the sunbelt does not disprove the connection between vitamin D and the severity of the disease. It actually confirms it. I still think the best way to stay healthy is to get just a little bit of that famous sunshine when the sun is at its apex. Stay safe and avoid Trump Rallies and Antifa Riots. Neither are conducive to good health nor sanity.
Originally posted here: https://hive.blog/covid19/@vagabondspirit/newsflash-it-is-hot-in-phoenix