I’m sorry, but that is utter trash... one can’t even call it pseudoscience because there’s zero science involved, other than the climate data itself. If you want to see someone who has zero qualifications talk about colors for twenty minutes, go ahead and waste your life.
Those “correlations” have nothing to do with temperature-virus and everything to do with temperature-human behavior. There is no temperature that will kill or neutralize these virions above freezing (maybe lower) and below standard human body temperature (for certain).. if that was the case, as soon as a virion hit your bloodstream it would be rendered inert. That everyone can’t immediately see and understand this isn’t surprising, really.. this is the age of compounded ignorance and indifference.
The humidity “correlation” is also tenuous at best.. while a drier environment may prove to decrease virion viability below a certain threshold, above that point, humidity will only serve to increase viability windows. This muppet is proposing (hah) there’s a magical “Goldilocks” zone of optimal humidity for infection, when that’s not the way it works.
If anything, what the map (and transmission patterns in general) suggest are the same transmission factors that make influenza and the common cold perennial issues: when it’s cold, people tend to avoid allowing ventilation to dissipate heating. Full stop. No mystery. Standing air allows buildup of airborne virions/micro droplets, and protects surface-resting virions from drier (likely) outside air.
The “big secret” to why warm places have slower transmission rates is simply “more ventilation”. If people in those areas self-quarantined and wore some form of hand protection plus a face barrier to avoid picking up and infecting themselves with surface-borne virions, I’ve got an extremely strong hunch it would halt the spread of indigenous cases. They would have to prevent travelers from coming in to eliminate resurgence. Some places are taking those measures and will weather this out extremely well.
I can guarantee that it won’t “disappear come April,” however. It’s always winter somewhere on Earth, and that reservoir in the human population will likely be with us for years to come.
Those “correlations” have nothing to do with temperature-virus and everything to do with temperature-human behavior. There is no temperature that will kill or neutralize these virions above freezing (maybe lower) and below standard human body temperature (for certain).. if that was the case, as soon as a virion hit your bloodstream it would be rendered inert. That everyone can’t immediately see and understand this isn’t surprising, really.. this is the age of compounded ignorance and indifference.
The humidity “correlation” is also tenuous at best.. while a drier environment may prove to decrease virion viability below a certain threshold, above that point, humidity will only serve to increase viability windows. This muppet is proposing (hah) there’s a magical “Goldilocks” zone of optimal humidity for infection, when that’s not the way it works.
If anything, what the map (and transmission patterns in general) suggest are the same transmission factors that make influenza and the common cold perennial issues: when it’s cold, people tend to avoid allowing ventilation to dissipate heating. Full stop. No mystery. Standing air allows buildup of airborne virions/micro droplets, and protects surface-resting virions from drier (likely) outside air.
The “big secret” to why warm places have slower transmission rates is simply “more ventilation”. If people in those areas self-quarantined and wore some form of hand protection plus a face barrier to avoid picking up and infecting themselves with surface-borne virions, I’ve got an extremely strong hunch it would halt the spread of indigenous cases. They would have to prevent travelers from coming in to eliminate resurgence. Some places are taking those measures and will weather this out extremely well.
I can guarantee that it won’t “disappear come April,” however. It’s always winter somewhere on Earth, and that reservoir in the human population will likely be with us for years to come.
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