They have less air conditioning. I didn't see that mentioned but don't you think the air conditioning, just the forced circulating of air, wouldn't that make a difference if it's an airborne virus? If you have less AC wouldn't that give you less problems? I don't know.

They're younger of course, much younger. That makes a big difference as people pointed out. Their record-keeping might be flawed so there might be a lot more infections than we know. They don't test as much. There might be a lot more. But if they were having bad outcomes we would at least see more excess deaths and apparently they're not.

But some of the other speculation is that blood type makes a difference and apparently there are some studies that say the blood type in Africa is advantageous. And some other indication that if you had any Neanderthal DNA you might have worse outcomes. I've got a good dose of Neanderthal DNA. You could tell probably. But Africa does not. So Africans have little or no Neanderthal DNA. So that might be part of it.

But I would like, and then somebody also threw in there that they're taking ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. I would like to call on that. I don't know. So I'm going to say this without the benefit of data but if I had to place a big bet I would bet that although it's true that Africa would use more hydroxychloroquine and more ivermectin, then it's not the difference that you know if you see the pictures of just Africans living their life and I say to myself what percentage of all the people in that picture took a hydroxychloroquine today just in case? I feel like it's not many. Do you think the average village in Africa, there are many people in that village were taking hydroxychloroquine daily? I mean you could do a fact check on me but anybody who suspects that that's the big answer, I don't think so.

Yeah I understand why for malaria. Just to clarify, the theory would be that they're taking it anyway for malaria prevention and therefore it gives them some protection against this hypothetically. But I don't think the percentage of people is very high. Is it a typical village in Africa, what percentage are taking hydroxychloroquine? I would guess closer to zero but that's just a guess. So fact check me on that. But I don't think that's going to turn out to be a factor in the long run.

But here's something fun to do that you should actually do. You should actually do this. Google these two terms and then compare. Google Africa people images. Just those three words. Just Google that and you'll get a bunch of images of group pictures of people in Africa. Now do the same thing but pick an American city. I picked Houston. So I googled then Houston people images. Now you get a bunch of group shots of people in Houston. Compare.

I think almost every Houston group picture had at least one super spreader right in the picture. If you look at African images all day long, and I spent some time doing it, I was just paging African images, African images, do you know how many obese people I saw in all of my looks? None. Zero. There are zero fat people in the pictures. Obviously there are fat people there but you can look all day long on the pictures and you don't find a fat person in Africa. I know they're there but they're not in the pictures.

In Houston every single picture had an obese person in it or almost. Now as I said before we knew that obese people have worse outcomes but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the super spreaders. We know now that obese people have more lung capacity. They get more infections and especially the older ones apparently are the ones who spread. If you look at the Houston pictures there's one of them in every picture.

The way you should count an obese person over 50 is like five infections in your head. You're thinking one, right? You think well that's one guy who might get it and have a bad outcome so that's one. You don't count it as one. That's a super spreader. That one might be a thousand people who get the infection, right?

Somebody's asking about Polynesians. That's a good question. That's a good question. How the Polynesians are doing. I'd like to know the answer to that.

All right. Over on the Locals subscription platform one of the big questions were could I teach people how to view sleep as a skill. In other words can I teach people how to get to sleep? And the answer is yes. Yes I can do that. That is well within my skill set. So next few days I will have a lesson on Locals about how to view sleep as a skill. And I can tell you that the people who do see it as a skill pretty much succeed, right? It is very susceptible to technique. A lot of things are not but sleep is very, very manageable by technique. You just have to know what technique to use and almost nobody does for some reason. It's the easiest thing to do that people are not aware of how to do it. It's weird. But I'll teach you.

All right. Yesterday I tweeted something and it was a thread and it turned out to be so popular that I'm just going to talk about it here. I talked about reframing. And I tweeted that here's a reframe which is just a different way of looking at something that will change some people's lives forever. Does that seem like a big claim? Do you think that in what follows in this tweet thread, do you think I'm going to accomplish this claim that this simple way of thinking about something differently will change people's lives forever? Does that sound like too much? It's not. It's not. And this easily will change some people's lives forever. Not most. Most people are not changed by most things. But some people will be changed forever by this and you might be one of them. So listen to the rest.

And here it is. Here's the thing that you should reframe. Your mind is the outcome of genetics, traumas and hacks. And that's it. That's the idea. That the thing you think of as your mind is partly your genes, what you're starting with, but after that it's the traumas that happen to you. They end up designing your brain and then modified by what hacks you do. Now define hacks as just programming your own brain. Now a hack would be something you do intentionally to reprogram your brain.

So I said if you don't learn to hack or program your brain, the default is that you're a little more than genes and trauma. Now is that an oversimplification? Of course yeah. So you'll see what I'm doing here is an intentional oversimplification.

Now this is what you need to know about reframing the way you look at things. A reframe is not necessarily and doesn't need to be about making something more accurate. The weird thing about reality is that sometimes an inaccurate view of reality is more functional. Sometimes an accurate view of reality is exactly what you need. But there are lots and lots of situations where an inaccurate view of reality is better. Now I won't give you examples. I'm just going to make that claim f