I never was the brightest kid in high school. Of course, my grades would have been much better if I hadn’t insisted on courses like algebra and chemistry. I made good grades in English and history without half an effort. I just couldn’t see making a living by conjugating verbs or knowing when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

Looking back on it, I do wish I did learn more about history and English. I can now see how it would have helped. Still, I do get by and I did learn a lot about chemistry and quadratic equations. However, I have found I use English far more than imaginary numbers.

How-some-ever, I still leaned my share of science. Though they never said so at the time, I have found that history and science are tightly intertwined. There is a lot of electronics in history and a whole bunch of history involved in chemistry.

Go figure. A person could actually learn history and science kind of simultaneously. I mean, it’s a little difficult to learn about the old River boats without also learning a little about steam, even if by accident.

Now, why would I write all this? Well, don’t you find it very fascinating. I do

Nonetheless, I was combining my history education with my scientific concepts, limited as they may be. I have heard that the main reason flu spreads so much more during the winter is because we spend so much more time in close proximity to each other.

That is likely true. Not only does it sound logical, but that is also what the smart people say. Yet, I was thinking. My wife always gets upset with me for that. She ask me, “Don’t you ever give your brain a rest?!” Yeah. It is something of a sore spot betwixt us. Must not be that serious, though. We have been married for over 50 years and she has been putting up with all my thinking, even before we were married.

Well, that has nothing to do with the flu. The point is, has anyone ever done any serious research on it. Maybe, perhaps, it might remotely possibly be, this theory might be wrong. Have we been making an assumption that isn’t scientific.

If, of course, someone has done the research and has statistics to backup the theory, if this is the case, then I just wasted a lot of words and I have exposed a bunch of my ignorance. Well, maybe I did that, anyway.

So, if it’s not the closeness that enhances the spread, what could it be? What other theory is even possible, let alone, probable?

This is where my thinking comes in. This is the part that angers my wife. What if it is vitamin D? In the winter we don’t get as much sun so we don’t get as much vitamin D. Actually, that part is a given. None of us get nearly as much sun in the winter.

I would have never, ever thought of it but for the China virus. I have no idea of the validity, but I heard from many different people that vitamin D helps to protect us from the virus. So, I made the connection. If vitamin D protects us from the one thing, why not the other?

Am I right? Am I wrong? I am the first to say, I have no real evidence.

Then again, the national health experts had no proof the vaccine worked on children and yet they recommended it. There was no evidence at all that it wound help our young military men and yet they were forced to take the vaccine or they were forced out of the service.

I submit my conjecture is as strong as there’s with one difference. The vitamin D is known to be harmless. At this point, we know the vaccine has danger associated with it.

Just one more thing before you completely dismiss my theory. Kids are less affected by the China virus. Kids drink more milk… Fortified with vitamin D. Older folks drink less milk, more coffee. The older people spend more time indoors. Us older people are more susceptible. I am an exception. I drink a lot of milk. I am sure I had that dreaded virus at least twice and I fought it off with nothing more than over the counter meds. And, oh yes. I am 78. I never even saw a doctor for it.