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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 878492">Iwasaki's comment relates to "other respiratory viruses".  So far, an assumption that this disease will behave seasonally like the flu is a hopeful projection, not any scientific conclusion about this virus.I mean, really, Houston has been hitting highs in the upper 80's and 90's regularly for over a month now, 90's each of the last 16 days.  It's been hotter than that in Austin where new mask-wearing requirements for businesses have just been implemented.  Look all across the south.  Last I checked it's June 19th. and the snow birds are long gone to get out of the heat.  I'm not sure what you're expecting--120 degrees for a couple of weeks?Conversely, New York state's rates are plunging with temps nowhere near approximating the Corona hot spots in the south or Los Angeles.  That's the state with the most draconian and detailed social distancing measures, following the CDC phase-in protocals, now having the lowest rates of infection.  While it stands to reason that warmer weather may be a mitigating factor the relevant statistic is the rate of hospitalizations and the rate of hospitalizations is so strongly correlated with behavioral practices, particularly social distancing, as to be the overwhelming factor.</blockquote>

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