Sunlight as a disinfectant

@humy said
although per capita Belgium so far has a higher C19 death rate per capita than Spain
(see
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
-it actually gives death rate per million people, not per capita but, obviously, that still allows us to compare per capita )
on the hand, the UK, which is less sunny than Spain, so far ...[text shortened]... (exactly how?) as a weapon against the virus. If that is so then this whole thing is just academic.

By the way, if New York City were to move East to Europe, it would be in Spain. England is the same latitude as Canada. Southern tip of Florida is the same latitude as the extreme northern portion of Niger. Both Los Angeles and San Diego would be in Africa.

So what is south for you is actually north for us.

@shallow-blue said
I would call this delusional, but it isn't even that.

Tomorrow, from eladar: "Capricorns are more suscepible to viruses than Virgos; experts still unsure about Fire Rabbits ".

@eladar said
By the way, if New York City were to move East to Europe, it would be in Spain. England is the same latitude as Canada. Southern tip of Florida is the same latitude as the extreme northern portion of Niger. Both Los Angeles and San Diego would be in Africa.

So what is south for you is actually north for us.

@eladar said
Sunlight only works if you are allowed to be in the sun. In any case we are not having summer sunlight are we?

@humy

Belgium is famous for chocolate and beer and you wonder why they have a higher death rate?

@trev33 said
In Ireland we have, the past week or two had been as good as summer. 18c and sunny Friday and Saturday, we’re happy if we get that during summer. Usually it’s worse. Colder than southern Canada 😉

@trev33 said
Well, I checked. NY city would be northern Spain, so NY state would be France. The thing is weather patterns aren’t completely defined on how far you are from the equator so you really can’t compare.

@eladar said
New York City is where almost all the deaths are coming from.

You think Spain is South, but it is actually in the Northern regions of the US. Our southern region is in Northern Africa.

@trev33 said
It’s been a long time since I called someone an idiot on these forums.

@Eladar
UVC is inherently safer because it cannot penetrate skin cells or even eyes.
B can do both and can cause severe sun burns as I found out a few decades ago....

@eladar said
Look at the link I provided. UVB kills viruses too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1280232/#!po=41.5000

@Eladar
I saw that UVC is a known carcinogen so it would have to be done with care to use it to sterilize stuff like groceries delivered to house and shoe bottoms.

At least now you know why I am talking about UVA and UVB.

@trev33 said
In Ireland we have, the past week or two had been as good as summer.