Low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy contribute to schizophrenia and learning difficulties, amongst other health impacts.
I wonder if the higher rate of violent crime and terrorism seen amongst Middle Eastern and African migrants in Europe, even after a second generation, is partly caused by insufficient Vitamin D levels.
We should consider whether it is sensible offering refuge in northern European countries to people from these regions when they will need lifelong Vitamin D supplementation.
Meanwhile there is literal beheading going on in France - but mainstream media is completely silent on topics like immigration. The general dissatisfaction with mass immigration in the USA and Europe, and the failure of the mainstream media to acknowledge this, is what is fueling the rise of Breitbarts.
We need to begin building that smart charging/discharging capability into electric cars now, then.
We need to establish the regulatory and user interface standards around this ideally before we start manufacturing tens of millions of EVS each month.
It might make sense to also unbundle electricity for consumers, charging the live wholesale rate and indicating the pricing via apps, alerts, or indicators on the meter itself.
If these can be demonstrated safe it seems reasonable to place them close to cities - providing electricity and district heating.
The air pollution problems of Poland could be resolved a year after these were built, for example, by connecting them into and expanding existing district heating systems - meaning no one would need to burn coal or trash in ancient home chimneys.
Sweden, without COVID lockdowns, is on track for fewer deaths in 2020 than 2018.
The country also has a lower COVID deathtoll per capita than Belgium, Italy, USA.
Lockdown is not a solution. Dealing with air pollution (ending the burning of coal and oil) and obesity (banning and taxing added sugar) would yield significantly greater benefits and require much less cost and effort.
Which is completely sufficient to vaccinate the elderly, teachers, immunocompromised, and healthcare workers in the Western world, and probably anyone else who really wants it.
There's no need to completely eliminate COVID - we don't aim for the same for regular influenza. We should aim to reopen economies as soon as possible instead.
“As a luxury brand, our customers are more likely to have a home where they can charge a vehicle, an office where they can charge a vehicle, their favorite spots to go where they can charge a vehicle"
Translation: don't expect a lot of range from our heavy and aerodynamically inefficient vehicles.
Airborne transmission of COVID is sexy, requiring solutions like this, and individual impositions like wearing masks which are easy to police.
But I think the more likely spread of COVID is from mundane surface transmissions. One of the 'mystery' COVID cases in New Zealand was eventually tracked to people touching the same elevator button about an hour apart, for example.
Same here in Europe - everyone is wearing masks, but how many times is the apartment entrance handle touched by people each day?
Now we can get back to destabilizing the Mideast, offshoring our manufacturing jobs, starting more endless wars and transferring the rest of our technology to China. The Trump years were just a speed bump on the way to complete globalization.
In Europe those services pay for a huge welfare and pension system, and healthcare which is mostly used by the elderly. Very little benefit will be received by a working-age expat.
If you are at the bottom of the dating hierarchy (for whatever reason) as a male in the USA, you are typically limited to overweight women. The gulf between real and fake sex thus becomes much larger, and fake sex more appealing, than in a society without obesity.
The primary flaw of the dating/sex market in the USA and many Western societies is obesity.
I live in a society where obesity levels for women and most men are essentially 0% - due to lower prevalence of processed food and societal pressure to remain slim - and everyone is 'f*ckable', to put it bluntly.
By contrast in a typical Western society the bottom 30% of society is typically very sexually unappealing due to obesity. This also has strong negative impacts on equality, since obesity is usually correlated with education and income, so poor (overweight) women are much less likely to wed wealthy (slim) men.
The solution seems to be to place a large tax on sugar, 1cent per gram - in the same way that we tax other products that have negative health outcomes like alcohol, tobacco, gasoline. Use the proceeds to fund national healthcare or displace existing sales taxes.