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Takeaway: If you're vitamin D deficient, taking a D supplement reduces the incidence of acute respiratory infections by 70%.

Here is the study: https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

The study is a tough read, so here is a video explaining the results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5yVGmfivAk

Since coronavirus is a respiratory illness, this could be a tool in slowing it's spread. Especially since most people get their D from UV light, which is in short supply in northern regions right now.

This is in response to a thread about how much bot traffic is coming from data centers.

In our network, 3.6% of all user sessions are coming from data centers. Of that, this is how it breaks down for the top ones:

Amazon.com 6,466 (15.81%)

Microsoft Azure 5,827 (14.25%)

Google Cloud 3,322 (8.12%)

Google 2,397 (5.86%)

OVH SAS 1,721 (4.21%)

TOPNET 1,665 (4.07%)

OVH Hosting 1,635 (4.00%)

Digital Ocean 1,271 (3.11%)

Hetzner Online GmbH 992 (2.43%)

Rackspace Ltd. 932 (2.28%)

Linode 809 (1.98%)

I'm getting swamped DNS resolution errors for anything .IO.

ns-a1.io timesout on every request so do all the others