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I was locked in a windowless room for 10 year straight. What I don't know is if the long-term deprivation of vitamin D produces any long-term nonreversible damage. Does anyone know?

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Life produces long-term non-reversible damage, I'm afraid.

But up to a certain point it's the complete opposite.

Unfortunately that point is around 18 years of age.

This is one thing I think is not appreciated enough about WFH. It can, in some cases mean work from outdoors for some period of time. I don’t mean relaxing in the sunshine and pretending to work. I mean working your ass off outside and moving the needle for your organization.

I’m sorry, Elon is waaay smarter and more capable than I am but he is empirically wrong about his anti WFH bias.

WFH what?

"Work from home"

Out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, what was your staring position?

I ask, because even if they never invest a cent in your personal ventures, it is a very significant boost to to have wealthy parents who provide both broad access to formal and informal education, valuable networking, and a dependable safety net. Saying someone with those advantages is "more capable" when comparing them to the average First Worlder (let alone the average human being) is a sort of perceptual bias that seems unfortunately common.

I have no excuses.

or it could mean not leaving your house for weeks at a time. At least when you go to the office you have to leave your home and go to the office and that in theory means time outside.

So, it is better to be forced to go somewhere that they don’t want to go so that they are forced to go outside for a few minutes (or seconds even).

I sincerely hope you meant that figuratively. If not, I'm sorry, and I hope you managed to stay relatively sane during those years.

Jail, sadly. No windows, no fresh air. Took me almost 10 years to get the bond money together to get out. I was only in there because I couldn't get access to my money from inside the jail.

I may have a clue: you are most likely to suffer no harm at all. Certainly not as far as sunlight/Vit D goes. ( though windows can be good for things like diluting foul air). Read the works of Prof Trevor Marshall for a lengthy explanation.

Curiosity: How did you land up in the windowless situation?

Jail, sadly. No windows, no fresh air. Took me almost 10 years to get the bond money together to get out. I was only in there because I couldn't get access to my money from inside the jail.

Gosh. I had a look at your other posts. It's terrible what's happened to you.

Since you appear to have seen the underbelly of society you make want to look at my profile and read the link I've put on my profile. It may sound a little predatory when I suggest that you look at my profile, but so be it.

There are plenty of sources of vitamin D outside of sunlight.

I don't know if you're playing up being a homebody or if something horrible happened to you.

Jail, sadly. No windows, no fresh air. Took me almost 10 years to get the bond money together to get out. I was only in there because I couldn't get access to my money from inside the jail.

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