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I think it's hygiene related. I hypothesize that people living in countries with low hygiene have more exposure to diseases and thus better immunity. Examine In

I think it's hygiene related. I hypothesize that people living in countries with low hygiene have more exposure to diseases and thus better immunity. Examine India: In India, People throw trash everywhere, defecate everywhere, piss everywhere, wipe their rear ends with their hands, eat with their hands, and also shake other peoples' hands with the same hands... In general, it's well known that India is a pretty low hygienic country. Which may explain this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52435463 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52435463 Basically low hygiene exposes people to more diseases allowing their bodies to develop greater immunity inline with the quotation you mentioned above. There may be a correlation. I just gave some anecdotal data... Maybe some data scientist can find the correlation between two quantitative datasets: quantitative hygiene levels by country and deaths/infections of covid-19 by country.

kasperset 6y ago
One of the contributing factor may also be under reporting of deaths attributed to Covid-19 in these countries.
op03 6y ago
The data is all garbage. Data in India has a long way to travel from village to town to district to state to the national level. At each stage all kind of errors intentional and unintentional enter the system. All these errors keep accumulating as they move up the food chain. By the time it reaches the top (and it takes its sweet time) god knows what it actually means. Just to make things more interesting there is major fudging at the end of the chain to make it fit what was produced by the system over the previous years, cause budgets and all kinds of plans and policies that are based on prior garbage will start imploding otherwise. The interesting thing Covid has done is expose how bad those numbers are because the regional govts for the first time are dutifully releasing Daily Data from the morgues. That data leaks out non-covid deaths, which should more or less match non-covid deaths/mortality rate data reported from prior years. And it doesn't. By large factors. (Google non covid mortality rate for whatever city and compare with historic numbers in the national data portal) Your hypothesis assumes they are all not dying from low hygiene. They probably are, in large numbers, and are just not being counted.
- leafboi 6y ago
  >The data is all garbage. I haven't even presented data, I just presented a hypothesis using a BBC article about India as an anecdotal example. The article is literally from the BBC. You are literally saying the BBC is completely wrong about India. If that's the case then really the onus of proof is on you. Why should I trust the arbitrary words of some guy on the internet over the BBC? I mean I don't even completely trust the BBC but I trust you even less. All the stuff you wrote could be pulled out of your ass. Just reference your sources about inaccurate covid data from India if you want me to believe you, which I will if you provide at the very least a source that has equal weight to my own source... Like I'll even take Fox news as evidence enough to dispute the veracity of BBC. >Your hypothesis assumes they are all not dying from low hygiene. They probably are, in large numbers, and are just not being counted. I mean isn't what you just said just another hypothesis? Worth considering. The same quantitative analysis done on my suggestion will say something about your hypothesis as well. Either way worth looking into. I mean, we're just talking about India here, my hypothesis extends past India. I can use other anecdotal data for comparison... Given this: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SH.STA.BASS.ZS/rankings https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SH.STA.BASS.ZS/r... The country with the lowest hygiene index is Ethiopia. Total corona virus deaths: 167. That's a small, small amount. You say shitty data as well? I say, it could be, but low hygiene needs to be investigated as this is what the OP's comment is suggesting. So Obviously, it it Evidence? No. Worth looking into? Yes.
brian_cunnie 6y ago
> low hygiene exposes people to more diseases allowing their bodies to develop greater immunity Interesting theory, and I asked an epidemiologists that very question ("is it better to expose yourself to everything or to be hygienic?"). Her answer: it's complicated.

kasperset 6y ago

One of the contributing factor may also be under reporting of deaths attributed to Covid-19 in these countries.

op03 6y ago

The data is all garbage. Data in India has a long way to travel from village to town to district to state to the national level. At each stage all kind of errors intentional and unintentional enter the system. All these errors keep accumulating as they move up the food chain. By the time it reaches the top (and it takes its sweet time) god knows what it actually means. Just to make things more interesting there is major fudging at the end of the chain to make it fit what was produced by the system over the previous years, cause budgets and all kinds of plans and policies that are based on prior garbage will start imploding otherwise. The interesting thing Covid has done is expose how bad those numbers are because the regional govts for the first time are dutifully releasing Daily Data from the morgues. That data leaks out non-covid deaths, which should more or less match non-covid deaths/mortality rate data reported from prior years. And it doesn't. By large factors. (Google non covid mortality rate for whatever city and compare with historic numbers in the national data portal) Your hypothesis assumes they are all not dying from low hygiene. They probably are, in large numbers, and are just not being counted.

leafboi 6y ago
>The data is all garbage. I haven't even presented data, I just presented a hypothesis using a BBC article about India as an anecdotal example. The article is literally from the BBC. You are literally saying the BBC is completely wrong about India. If that's the case then really the onus of proof is on you. Why should I trust the arbitrary words of some guy on the internet over the BBC? I mean I don't even completely trust the BBC but I trust you even less. All the stuff you wrote could be pulled out of your ass. Just reference your sources about inaccurate covid data from India if you want me to believe you, which I will if you provide at the very least a source that has equal weight to my own source... Like I'll even take Fox news as evidence enough to dispute the veracity of BBC. >Your hypothesis assumes they are all not dying from low hygiene. They probably are, in large numbers, and are just not being counted. I mean isn't what you just said just another hypothesis? Worth considering. The same quantitative analysis done on my suggestion will say something about your hypothesis as well. Either way worth looking into. I mean, we're just talking about India here, my hypothesis extends past India. I can use other anecdotal data for comparison... Given this: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SH.STA.BASS.ZS/rankings https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SH.STA.BASS.ZS/r... The country with the lowest hygiene index is Ethiopia. Total corona virus deaths: 167. That's a small, small amount. You say shitty data as well? I say, it could be, but low hygiene needs to be investigated as this is what the OP's comment is suggesting. So Obviously, it it Evidence? No. Worth looking into? Yes.

brian_cunnie 6y ago

> low hygiene exposes people to more diseases allowing their bodies to develop greater immunity Interesting theory, and I asked an epidemiologists that very question ("is it better to expose yourself to everything or to be hygienic?"). Her answer: it's complicated.