There’s room to expand on the bit about how live virus particles might reach your respiratory system:
Physical contact between mucosa and contaminated surface. The degenerate case of this would be if someone wiped their hand along a surface that an infectious person had coughed on and immediately picked their nose: droplets could get from the infected person to the mucosa of the person with poor hygiene without the latter technically inhaling them.
Eye contact. A literature review from October on the subject seemed inconclusive, but can’t rule it out. There’s also the much-talked-about paper on lower COVID rates among glasses-wearers. Since tear ducts drain into the nose, the “stuff that gets in your eyes ends up near your respiratory system” link seems plausible enough to take seriously until better research on the topic becomes available.
Breaking News: Gamers found to have lower risk of Covid! Scientists speculate that immune molecules generated from prolonged sitting alone might prove protective against the virus!
Less time than whom? From that article, “According to reports published in recent years, the prevalence of myopia in China is now more than 80% of the population.”. I’d be wiling to use “the behaviors of 80% of the population” as a proxy for the level of exposure that’s in some way ‘normal’ for that group.
The total number of myopia doesn’t matter for looking at the difference. Myopia also doesn’t automatically mean glasses. It can also mean contact lenses which are worn less by nerds.
There’s room to expand on the bit about how live virus particles might reach your respiratory system:
Physical contact between mucosa and contaminated surface. The degenerate case of this would be if someone wiped their hand along a surface that an infectious person had coughed on and immediately picked their nose: droplets could get from the infected person to the mucosa of the person with poor hygiene without the latter technically inhaling them.
Eye contact. A literature review from October on the subject seemed inconclusive, but can’t rule it out. There’s also the much-talked-about paper on lower COVID rates among glasses-wearers. Since tear ducts drain into the nose, the “stuff that gets in your eyes ends up near your respiratory system” link seems plausible enough to take seriously until better research on the topic becomes available.
I think that could just translate into nerds who spend less time with other people and have an easier time isolating are less likely to get COVID.
Breaking News: Gamers found to have lower risk of Covid! Scientists speculate that immune molecules generated from prolonged sitting alone might prove protective against the virus!
Less time than whom? From that article, “According to reports published in recent years, the prevalence of myopia in China is now more than 80% of the population.”. I’d be wiling to use “the behaviors of 80% of the population” as a proxy for the level of exposure that’s in some way ‘normal’ for that group.
The total number of myopia doesn’t matter for looking at the difference. Myopia also doesn’t automatically mean glasses. It can also mean contact lenses which are worn less by nerds.