Also 4+ more hours of daylight in the summer depending on your latitude.
Maybe in the winter most group activities are indoors, too? If you have family over in the winter youâre inside, in the summer you might be cooking out. If you have a party people might be on the porch or deck, or back and forth inside and out.
Itâs possible that the tipping point where R > 1 or 1.2 or whatever is a little different for the flu and COVID-19.
Plus the vitamin D effect, plus the humidity as suzzer mentioned.
This is where something like absolute humidity might come into play, although itâs never been proven. But Iâve read a lot of speculation from experts in the field.
Feels like this is a testable hypothesis if you were to compare a more temperate AZ climate like Flagstaff to a hot as fuck AZ climate like Yuma.
Good lord, donât try exposing yourself to UV light to stop the 'rona, just take a vitamin D pill.
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No school in summer. School aged kids are a huge disease vector
Thatâs interesting - check out how yours compares to mine, and see what you think. Seems like mine should move around a little less, but yours should capture a drastic uptick more quickly?
Itâs not 100% clear how infectious kids actually are for this.
I dunno, I look at Nateâs chart and I see five states that are full of goddamn idiots who arenât taking any of this seriously, I think thatâs a bigger factor than the weather.
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I was thinking specifically of the flu, as to why its seasonal in the late fall-mid spring months but not over the summer.
Is it specifically UV that kills the virus?
Very quick from google, sunlight is 3-5% UV and roughly 1,000 watt/m2, meaning 30-50 watts/m2 is pure UV at earthâs surface, which would mean for a 100 SF room (small) you would need something like 300-500 watts of pure UV which would be something like 10 bulbs per room, low side.
Sunlight is a hell of a lot stronger than people think. Itâs about 100x brighter than a typical office lighting. Replicating a small part of its electromagnetic spectrum is impractical, even over a small area.
Sorry. GenX brain strikes again
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This is true but only if you have a lightbulb shoved up your ass, per POTUS.
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Plan: Unfriend.
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Also, the wavelength is key and not simply the intensity. Ya boi Einstein first worked this out.
big cancer risk
If you hadnât done it I would have. But would have gone with Ball and Chain.
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This is assuming some bulb that could more or less replicate the UV part of the sunlight EM spectrum. I have no idea how practical this is and have officially reached the limits of usefulness of my knowledge of interior lighting.
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