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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: 17 Apr 2025 07:14:40 GMT
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John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:14:05 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/16/2025 8:42 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 4/15/2025 9:02 PM, John B. wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Strange isn't it. The vigorous enforcement, of exactly the same rules,
>>>> that you describe, were blamed for Thailand's rather amazingly low
>>>> Covid rates and deaths..
>>>> 
>>>> U.S.  Total cases per 1 million population - 337,912
>>>>            Total Deaths per 1 M population       - 3685
>>>> 
>>>> Thailand Total cases per 1 million population - 68,069
>>>>                    Total deaths per 1 M population - 494
>>> 
>>> I don't know but the general rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease 
>>> are dramatically different between our countries and all those associate 
>>> with deleterious outcomes with viral infections. Maybe significant, 
>>> maybe not.
>> 
>> I'd bet on "not." And that argument is grasping at straws.
> 
> 
> Average death age M+W - U.S. 79.61 - Thailand 76.83

I’m fairly sure had the Uk Government been more proactive would of had a
better outcome, I’m sure that UK hub type nature means the mixing and
exposure would remain high, but just simple things like starting the
lockdowns early as numbers started to rise rather than wait until they had
to, which also ment a longer lockdown as took longer for numbers to drop.

They also resisted masks and so on.

Some roads that one normally avoided as just too busy to be enjoyable for a
pleasure ride, did though become lovely roads to ride on, no cafes open so
definitely needed to be self sufficient and all that!

Roger Merriman