Is Lack Of Sun On Skin Causing MERS In Saudi Arabia?

 

The invention of air conditioning has actually made health problems worse for the general population.  I grew up in the hottest of hot deserts and we had a ‘swamp box’ for cooling and when my parents got an air conditioner for the whole house, I noticed several things.  One was, the air was much drier and my nose felt it right away.  Also, once one was accustomed to it, going out into the heat was much harder on the body and lastly, air conditioners keep people indoors a great deal and fools the body into thinking it is almost winter so the urge to eat fatty, high calorie foods is overwhelming.

 

So we now have an obesity epidemic with the greater part of this epidemic coincides with the hotter regions of the US.  In olden times (when my grandfather lived in Arizona) people took siestas in the heat of the mid afternoon and worked in mornings and evenings and ate sparsely.  I lived with no air conditioning while at the university there and had no problem with not eating too much.  I could bike around town in 100+ degree weather just fine.

 

Above all, I always wear generous hats to shade my body from excessive sun.  Saudi Arabia is similar.  The culture there like all desert cultures have flowing robes so the body is sheltered from too much sun while the air flowing around the body cools it off.  But then the practice of forcing all women to cover everything while outside including the hands has caused huge problems for women.  They need sunlight.

 

In olden times, women got to go about unveiled when in various compounds and closed off by curtains areas.  But since the arrival of air conditioners, everyone, male and female, spends nearly all their time indoors or go to malls that are completely enclosed.  This is highly conductive for spreading diseases especially pneumonia types like Legionnaire’s disease.  The Saudi royals enforce this insane culture on everyone with draconian punishments especially aimed at trapping women indoors forever.

 

So it is no surprise to see MERS mutating rapidly in this bizarre place.  I had more lung problems living in Arizona than living in New York, for example.  And I only got pneumonia last winter due to being confined to a wheelchair for half a year and thus, not being outside nearly as much as normal.  Normally, in winter, I work outdoors a lot.

 

The MERS crisis in Saudi Arabia continues to worsen with some very dire connotations:  MERS Study Reveals Genetic Bouquet | Science/AAAS | News

 

The analysis, published online this week in The Lancet, revealed significant variety among the viral genomes drawn from the different patients. Based on the large amount of variation, the authors estimate that at least three distinct versions of the virus exist in the Saudi Arabian population. Even samples collected within a few days of each other during the Al-Hasa outbreak had very different genomes. Since the virus couldn’t have evolved these changes in such a short time, Kellam says, there are two possible explanations. One is that MERS could be infecting many more people than are actually getting sick, evolving all the time. But with no evidence of a large asymptomatic population so far, Kellam and his colleagues favor a second scenario: MERS evolved and diversified in animals and then infected humans on multiple occasions.

 

If a lot of people are infected with no signs of disease, this means it can explode into the general population with just a few more mutations!  Most viruses that cause mass mayhem are this type, lying quietly with periodic small eruptions that aren’t all that contagious until the right mutation finally evolves and runs rampant.  That is, the human population is the host population, not other animals infecting humans!

 

And as the oil pumping nations throw away their ancient lifestyles while clinging to the ‘veil the women/keep as many people indoors as possible’ model, we get a health crisis caused by the laws of these realms.  Laws that have a death penalty for small violations such as when a girl’s school caught on fire and the children tried to run outside before veiling themselves, the firemen and police shoved them back into the burning building to die.

 

Our allies at work!  Assad didn’t do this, the Saudi Royals did this.  And the outrage changed virtually nothing.  Now we have the potential for a planetary viral outbreak thanks to them.  I say, this is a crisis just like Japan’s Fukushima mess and our government won’t do a thing or say a peep.  Meanwhile, Congress, after the leaders told us we have plenty of money for more wars and spending $4 billion to remove our junk from Afghanistan, we have no money for Americans and the government is going to shut down while Obama and McCain focus only on Syria and Iran as if these guys are a problem.

 

Japan, Saudi Arabia and our own government is a huge problem.  And we get  nothing about fixing any of these problems, do we?

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