This headline is not nice but unfortunately it applies to a lot of governments these days for the governments have out of ignorance made the coronavirus situation worse.
It turns out that the coronavirus is a lot less deadly than the normal flu if peoples D-Vitamin levels are kept up and people are encouraged to embrace a healthier lifestyle.
The following rules are/were counter productive
to make people stay indoors
to limit their time outdoors directly
to limit their time outdoors indirectly, by allowing jogging but not walking
to make it less fun to be outdoors, by restricting how far away from ones home one can go
to make any rules without advising people to take care of their D-Vitamin levels
to make any rules without emphasizing the importance of healthier lifestyle, to avoid stress, sleeplessness, overwork, obesity, smoke, drugs and alcohol
to make rules that do not make economic sense
to make rules that set a bad example and are even more deadly elsewhere i.e. in third world countries
to mislead people about the success of their policies by not counting the immense stress and suffering and indeed ultimately the policy generated deaths
The policies have resulted in
huge unemployment
tremendous job insecurity
massive drop in the demand and the supply of goods and services - locally
and internationally
which in turn may lead to an additional death toll of 300 000 per day from hunger
Everybody will pay for a long time to come
It is normal people who will continue to pay ultimately by way of
because the policies where too harsh and were missing in what would have made the greatest difference (D-Vitamin and healthy living)
Some will pay even a higher price
people who do not have a safety net
businesses especially smaller businesses
businesses that are put at a competitive disadvantage because they are not favored by governments' handouts
It is sad when people loose everything
No matter from which level they fall
Poor people who have hardly anything are loosing everything when they loose their livelihood
People who have built up a nest egg, a small or big fortune with hard work also loose everything when that nest egg or fortune is wiped out
If we were to take a deep statistical look, almost anywhere one would be able to demonstrate the connection between D-Vitamin and the severity of the Coronavirus cases. In this article, we will have to make do with a few examples. (Note that when comparing Vitamin-D levels one really needs to look at figures that exclude summer, because during this season people and especially people of color suffer less from Vitamin-D shortages. Estimates of D-Vitamin intake will give a good indication of if a country is generally doing good, but, as discussed elsewhere, people of color would need more)
Doing really good and doing really bad
In the States about 30 000 people die annually from the normal flu.
Only 2000 covid-19 deaths for people not suffering from severe D-Vitamin shortages.
The rest of the deaths are for people with severe D-Vitamin shortages. These deaths will soon reach 98 000.
Milk in the United States is heavily fortified with D-Vitamin so people are not as badly affected from D-Vitamin shortages as in many other countries. However the people who need that healthy milk the most, the adult black community, consume on average only half the amount as do others. Milk consumption for people over 50 is also less for all ethnicities.*
In the US, a form of genocide is taking place
The majority of the deaths are of Black and Latin Americans. Without D-Vitamin supplements, these groups are much more vulnerable for having a D-Vitamin shortage, also because their skin does not allow for as much UV absorption which is necessary for the body's own synthesis of D-Vitamin. These people are hit hard when living at such a northerly latitude, especially off-summer, where people are a lot inside and under layers of cloths when they do get out.
Finland is the only other country with heavily fortified milk. D-Vitamin intake is around 10.5 and 16.5 µg for old people.
Death rate from the Coronavirus is 0.005%
Not doing so good WITHOUT lockdown
But showing that a without harsh methods they can still cope.
D-Vitamin intake is about 7 µg
Death rate from the Coronavirus is about 0.04%. About 8 times more than in Finland.
Almost a total SUCCESS WITHOUT lockdown
This demonstrates that success is possible without lockdown.
Other countries where businesses remained opened and have been shown to be successful include South Korea and Japan. (These countries are also high fish consumers.)
People were allowed to go out all the time and almost all businesses remained open.
D-Vitamin intake around 4.2 µg Fish consumption is among the highest in the world around 90 kg per year.
Death rate about 0.003% (The extra 0 is not a typo for Iceland and Finland. They are doing so much better)
Doing good without severe lockdown
Death rate from the Coronavirus is about 0.02%
Doing good with less lockdown
D-Vitamin intake is around 3.8 µg
Death rate from the Coronavirus is about 0.01%
Note that this is about one sixth of what it is in Spain. Their D-Vitamin intake is also more than 500% higher.
Doing really bad despite severe lockdown
D-Vitamin intake is only 0.7 µg
Death rate from the Coronavirus is about 0.06%
Doing rather good with lockdown
Fish consumption is 34% greater than in Spain
Death rate from the Coronavirus is about 0.01%
Doing really bad despite severe lockdown
D-Vitamin intake is only 2.4 µg
Death rate from the Coronavirus is about 0.05%
Doing really bad despite lockdown
D-Vitamin intake is about 2.2 µg
Death rate from the Coronavirus is about 0.05%
* https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400530/pdf/DBrief/3_milk_consumption_0506.pdf
